Absolute fooking BS..
All fuel sold in the UK has to meet the same BS standard. mixing petrol with kero or diesel would have HMRC desending like the valkeries from Valhalla..
Hate to tell you but they all use the same refineries, go and sit outside Kingsbury fuel terminal or the one at the Fort in Birmingham, supermarket and 'branded' fuel wagons going in and out all day long. Now someone may correct my but I'm fairly sure that they all fill up at the same filling stations inside the terminals.
I was told by a tanker driver mate that they all use the same refinery, but supermarket fuel doesnt have the the selected additives in it like Shell, Esso & BP wold have in it thats why its chapter.
Sorry i just thought id add my 2 pence worth!
Merry Christmas
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You've hit it on the head. as said in the link I posted. it's the additives that differ not the fuel..
Hate to tell you but they all use the same refineries, go and sit outside Kingsbury fuel terminal or the one at the Fort in Birmingham, supermarket and 'branded' fuel wagons going in and out all day long. Now someone may correct my but I'm fairly sure that they all fill up at the same filling stations inside the terminals.
I was told by a tanker driver mate that they all use the same refinery, but supermarket fuel doesnt have the the selected additives in it like Shell, Esso & BP wold have in it thats why its chapter.
Sorry i just thought id add my 2 pence worth!
Merry Christmas
yep 100%
You've hit it on the head. as said in the link I posted. it's the additives that differ not the fuel..
Hate to tell you but they all use the same refineries, go and sit outside Kingsbury fuel terminal or the one at the Fort in Birmingham, supermarket and 'branded' fuel wagons going in and out all day long. Now someone may correct my but I'm fairly sure that they all fill up at the same filling stations inside the terminals.
I'll still be using biodiesel that I buy for £1.10 per litre from a guy just outside Burton on Trent, after all it's a defender which is basically a tractor with a bigger cab on it, it still does 30 ish mpg and is 30p a litre cheaper than at the pumps.
The idea of the different refinement of fuels is to improve the way the car using it performs. That's right. The different fuels are purer (E.g. The Excellcium, Ultimate, V Power...) Now here is where the difference becomes clear, what happens is: the impurities which supermarket and the 'cheaper' fuels have in them actually coat the inside workings of your engine, excess is shoved into cylinders making an unclean burn in petrol engines, and more particulates out of diesel exhausts.
The inside coating of engines this makes results in poor MPG, worse performance, bad reliability, repair costs, engine wear, and as more of the coating is pulled off, higher exhaust emissions. This is much, much higher in Supermarkets fuel (their 'Super' is equivalent of normal fuel), lower in normal fuel - standard oil company forecourt - and is actually the reverse in 'Ultimate, Super, Excellsium, and V Power'. What they actually do, is clean off all the inside coating of engines improving performance, MPG, reliability, lifetime, and emissions, they also have lower particulates and emissions than the normal fuels since they have virtually no impurities.
The inside layer of engines from cheap fuels is long term, depending on how cheap the petrol was; since the advanced fuels are pioneering, all cars over ten years old will have this problem. Using the advanced fuels for a year will significantly reduce this issue improving everything!
Although this is expensive, I think it is definitely worth it! The health of my engine is important to me (especially since she has 210,000 miles!). The fuels will easily half exhaust results, ensuring Land Rovers are no longer susceptible to this MOT failure with enormous cost. This is why using the fuel once won't make any difference! I always run my cars on BP Ultimate only. Supporting the British Economy! And even better I get double the Nectar card points using it! (One per litre standard fuel, two for Ultimate) I hope you can now see the advantages of BP Ultimate, I assure you, I can feel the vast difference it has made for me!
I use shell or Texaco just their standard stuff and dump in a bottle of redex or forte now and then
But if the engine doesn't work what difference does the type of fuel make?
But if the engine doesn't work what difference does the type of fuel make?