I've come across supermarket petrol that won't ignite with a naked flame. Summit tells me that isn't normal.
Hmmm :scratching_chin: I wonder .
Pull the fuel pipe off, prie the pump so it squirts into a suitable catching impliment and then apply flame to rest of landy....erm .... I mean..... syphoned fuel.
You haven't filled the petrol tank full of water have you Dr E ???
Would that petrol that wouldn't ignite come from morrisons ?
I used to do 100k a year but due to a change in working practices I only do around 70k a year now.
If I used supermarket fuel in my truck it felt like I was towing a car at all times and I got about 50-80 less to the tank (120 lite tank).
Since we switched over to a rubbish fuel card at work (most of our fuel is now supermarket) we've had a lot of our vehicles start playing up and needing new ip's and injectors.
Once the supermarkets pulled out of the fuel card deal the problems with our trucks suddenly ceased.
I've come across supermarket petrol that won't ignite with a naked flame. Summit tells me that isn't normal. I'll happily put supermarket fuel in my works vehicle but I won't let it go in my own vehicles fuel tanks.
Key fuels card?
We had that it was dire. And never a petrol station anywhere near when needed it
Hey - that might be it mate!!!
Get some fresh stuff in it
No. It came from the orange ones. The MOD around here were banned from using the yellow ones a couple of years back though due to problems with fuel.
How did ya guess.
We had allstar before that.
When I'm working nights it's a 10 mile drive to the nearest one that's open and a further 14miles to the next closest if that happens to be out of fuel or on a shift change etc.
Does anyone know if there is any truth in this?
They were saying supermarket diesel doesnt have detergents in so doesnt keep injectors etc clean and also has a higher wax content and lower octane rating.
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Supermarket fuel is bought on the market (usually in Holland). Basically the refineries make fuels, they just keep pumping the stuff out, often they do make more than demand requires and this stuff doesn't go straight to the forecourt, it goes to the market where it is sold to whoever will buy it. At fuel markets often different types of fuel are thrown into the same tank, that is to say, petrol/diesel/kero that was made last week and petrol that was made today and from different refineries are mixed. The fuel is then brought to the UK to a depot where it will be pumped off a ship into tanks and the tankers filled up, so it comes out the same gates but may have originated in Russia etc (It isnt necessarily the best of British).
I tend to use shell, but when I have used Asda or Sainsburys I have noted a reduced range on a full tank and this was back when my trips were always the same: work and back Mon-Fri, a long trip once a fortnight and on average about 8 small local trips per fortnight. On the Disco it was about 40/45miles less on supermarket fuel.