I'm sceptical that the use of a fuel that meets the requirements of BS2800 and BS EN 228:2000 would, without any other element involved, cause engine failure.

I would love to see anybody give conclusive evidence that it did - it would make a great story.

 

we?

Where is we?

Alex

 

Used to work for Safeway and I remember all the claims they were getting for this!
There was a big debate about it about 5 years ago!
My mates car was one affected by it!
His engine went bang with the build up of detergents and poor quality fuel. He used to use only Supermarket fuels!

 

I HAD I FULL TANK AND MY CAR DID NOT LIKE IT .INFACT IVE USED BP/ESSO THIS WEEK AND I MUST SAY I DID NOT NOTICE ANY REAL DIFFERENCE COMPARED TO OPTIMAX APART FROM A BETTER MIDRANGE PUNCH.

 

Thank you

BTW Both Bedford Tesco's have it.

 

Don't need it up there, temps are so much lower!

 

all comes from the same refineries!!!!!!!Only the name on the tanker is different!

 

Look under his username......

 

That is true, but from what I've been lead to believe is that they go to their suppliers then, and thats where the detergents are added. Hence there is so much difference between brands of fuels!

 

Yep, they're both in the file

 

http://www.greenergy.co.uk/products/99_octane.html

 

This performance fuel has the highest octane rating (RON) of any petrol currently on sale at UK forecourt chains and contains an enhanced additive package to help remove engine deposits and ensure smooth engine running.

Surely this makes it almost as good as Optimax on cleaning and better on performance .

 

That's great Just mentioned it because there's only the one Bedford site listed in the first post

 

Thanks a million!

Aren't these points-of-interest just brilliant?! 2mins to download, unpack, transfer to my Palm and open TomTom to see it had all my local Tesco99's on it.

Did 100 miles of tracktime at the Bruntingthorpe trackday on Tesco99 in my WRX and it was sweet all day. Pal with a 320bhp RA who normally uses Optimax tried it for the first time also on Saturday; he found less knocklink activity than the usual for Optimax, and was happy with the way it built up to 1.4bar on the road. All good, and this concurs with Gerry (Houghton)'s careful observations of behaviour on Tesco99.

cheers
Andy

 

HTH!

 

1) You are not paying for a brand
2) They treat it as a loss leader to get you into the store

 

Rubbish !, No business will be allowed to run at a loss.

The fact is that all of these sites have a very large turn over in fuel
and they are able to buy it cheaper and pass that on to the consumer.

You do your shopping and fill up your car.

You can't honestly believe that they sell it cheap so as to attract customers
into the store.

Rob

 

you obviously have no idea about loss leaders

 

From what I've seen on my travels, supermarket fuel is priced similarly to their local competition. The only time it's significantly cheaper is when they have their 5p off(ers)

 

Some supermarket filling stations make a profit, others dont. The 24hr Tesco in Abbeydale in Sheffield was easily the cheapest supplier of diesel over the last 12 months, but the Tesco in Chesterfield which is about 8 miles away was 5p per litre dearer. The Chesterfield store was following local price whilst the Sheffield store was aggresively undercutting its local competition. Its difficult to know which one actually made Tesco the most money, but the one that made the least, maybe even made a loss, will have added to the companys volume and its quantity (and the buying power that it provides) that dictates whether the company ultimately make money by selling petrol. Im sure that they do though...

 

When will they start selling this in the Tesco Hoover Building branch in Perivale? I want to try it...