alcazar

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Filled up with V-Power on the way up to Darlington, Shell garage on the A1 northbound, just shorrt of Darlington.

Until then the car had been running well on Tesco Momentum.

As SOON as the Shell went in, every time I hit more than 1 bar boost, the KnockLink lit uip like a Christmas tree

Must be a bad batch......or, since they were working on some of the pumps, I've paid for 99 octane and got 95

Maz

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If you've filled up with 95 instead 99 octane then you've got a case against the garage. This is no different to them putting diesel in a petrol pump as in your case the car must run on 99.

mart360

And how much is it going to cost to proove it was 95 not 99 ron in the tank??


add some octane booster, its far cheaper than paying for ""speshial"" petrol lol


Mart

Maz

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Shouldn't be too difficult to do an analysis of the petrol. The point is this could have resulted in Geoff's engine being destroyed not an insignificant matter by any yardstick.

B0DSKI

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Found mine ran better on Tesco Momentum than V power, even got an extra 20 miles to a tank

ALi-B

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To be frank, the risk would be reduced if the car was mapped with more aggresive knock correction.

Still, it'd be interesting to see it tested and see Shell's response when challenged.

The problem is as far as British standards are concerned, the indicated fuel only needs to be 97RON to fulfill their part of the weights and measure act....If its below 97Ron, the government will do the prosecuting for you.

If its above 97Ron, I doubt you'd get very far without spending alot of money on lawers. Obviously the law with trades description still applies, but its nowhere near as strict and you'd have to persue Shell personally.