Fuel: Cost difference between 95RON and 97RON = 32p/L
 

Just filled up at a BP station and used their 97RON. I noticed the banner outside said 95RN Unleaded was 107.9p but 97 was not price listed (as it often isn't)..
When I filled up I was surprised to see 139.9P/L on the receipt! That's around £16 extra to fill up for a marginal gain.. Kicking myself now as my car can handle 95..
I know you chaps with Scoobys usually put the high octane stuff in on every fill but are the costs per L still as high as this at other garages such as Shell?

Nick

109 tesco momentum when i put some in earlier

112p For Shell 99ron

That's a ridiculous amount for 97RON fuel.... 108p I think I paid yesterday for Tesco Momentum 99. May have been 109 like Tom has said.

They normally have a secondary price point at the pump above said fuel choice on thr digi display. Always worth a check if in doubt.

113p for v-power

112p VP yesterday.

how much did You pay at morrisons last time?:norty:

you're mistaking me for an immicunt with a wrx :thumb:

i only use 99 ron fuel, you luckily can use 95 ron in your old wrx :)

I know you chaps with Scoobys usually put the high octane stuff in on every fill but are the costs per L still as high as this at other garages such as Shell?

Nick[/QUOTE]

Did you know that BP's so called high octane is virtually the same as the 95ron making it a massive rip off!

Did you know that BP's so called high octane is virtually the same as the 95ron making it a massive rip off![/QUOTE]

its not really a cost thing, my car was mapped on 99ron tesco fuel so its all i can use other than v power, which is not available local to me sadly.

Also another thing to check is to see whether the pumps are properly calibrated, ie, a litre costs what it's stated. Fill up one litre and check the price matches or fill up 10 litres as there is less chance of rounding off errors of the unit price. One pump I've used, a small local petrol station, was a couple of pennies more per litre.

more to the point, what were you doing filling up with that crap?

This. :)

Same here, mapped for VP and would only ever run VP or Momentum. But even if i did map for 95, i still wouldn't touch BP!

Why is diesel dearer here than 95 RON?

AFAIK, we are the ONLY EC country with it this way round?

Supply and demand?

Perhaps we're the only country that thinks its best to have a derv no matter how many miles you do...

Not the case where this is concerned. Diesel simply is and always has been taxed at a significantly lower rate on the continent than here.

Diesel used to be cheaper than petrol, by a reasonable margin

That was in the mid 80,s - when there were few diesel cars and not all petrol stations stocked it

Seen this on another forum from a Norfolk based BP. I've previously never touched them because their markup on Ultimate was a joke compared to NUL.

However BMW recommends the stuff in the new diesels and Ultimate Diesel at my local garage is in line with Vpower.

I'm on LPG,
it's only dropped 5p from 65p to 60p a litre.

When petrol hit's £1/Litre It becomes hardly worth using LPG.
And the car runs much better on petrol anyway.

The LPG conversion industry must have collapsed!

Nobody uses bp 97 probably why the price is still high, they must of had it in their tanks for ages!

£55 for a full tank of V-power Nitro....bargain :D

Surely there must have been a pricing error there. The price is the first thing I check before I buy anything! Are youbtellujg us that it wasn't displayed at the pump? Isn't that illegal? :thumb:

As above, I paid £109.9 for Tesco Momentum last week. £55 to fill her up. :D

Totes. Been monitoring price by daily emails from petrolprices.com... Veep lol has been coming down by a penny almost daily this week. My local garage now has it at 111.9!

Let's do thiiiiis...!

Totes? TOTES! :razz:

Someone show this fool the bloody door! :D

That partly started to come undone when the Powershift initiative was abolished. A lot of dual-fuel manufactured cars stopped getting produced and because of the warranty implications with aftermarket stuff it never really took off. I've still got a 1.2i Corsa with an LPG conversion on it tucked away awaiting a head gasket swap when my time frees up. I bought it purely as a cheap fix, summer hack to work for this year. I couldn't help but think how tight ahem thrifty do you need to be to convert a 1.2 Corsa C?! They are 40mpg motors in their own right.

In other news 95Ron is now under a £1 per litre in Swindon. No such luck just across the county border yet.

:D

I use it out of 'irony'. As I do the 'acronym' that is: lol. Such utter tripe amuses me greatly. ;)


Let's face it, these terms aren't going to go away anytime soon (more's the pity : rolleyes:)... So may as well 'reclaim' them as our own!

Under a pound for 100 Ron out here and diesel is even cheaper at around 85p pretty much the same as 95 ron :D