adeel.a

After my post yesterday and the response I received, I popped in to Halfords and the best they had was the NOS brand (street use) Octane Boost up to 3 points...

I hope this is okay...

I miss my Optimax ( Been using nothing but for the past 5 years...

This is the reply I received after e-mailing Shell this morning:

Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you for your recent e-mail regarding Optimax supplies.
Following the recent incident at the Hemel Hempstead Oil Terminal, Shell is in the process of reorganising the current distribution of fuels for sites in the South of England.
To ensure the mainline grades of unleaded and diesel are kept in stock, the resource used for Optimax deliveries has been unitised to support these deliveries. Our distribution contractors are working to get extra resource to aid with mainline deliveries and allow Optimax to be dispatched to sites again. We anticipate that this will take several weeks to get all deliveries back to normal.
Shell appreciates your reliance on Optimax, and would like to thank you for your patience during this difficult period. Please be assured that we are doing everything to get all fuels to service stations.

Yours sincerely,

Customer Relations - Retail
Shell U.K. Oil Products Limited
Rowlandsway House, Rowlandsway, Manchester M22 5SB, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)800 731 8888
Internet: http://www.shell.com/uk

scoobyboy1

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Ive used that NOS octane thing from Halfords, and my car drove like a bag of ****, It felt like I had filled the car up full of 95 ron unleaded, I couldnt feel any performance from the car at all.

adeel.a

It was the Halfords Superstore, they didn't really have anything else there that would increase the Octane levels... they did have this other stuff (not branded as such) but the assistant said that was no good when I told him what had happended and what I was looking for...

I just put some in this afternoon so I should find out sooner or later if the car drives any different... it didn't have its 'poke' when I put this normal 95 RON fuel in yesterday... it drives... but it just doesn't seem right...

rigga

iTrader: (4)

in the same position here as cant really put anything else in my import but optimax.... bp ultimate station just round the corner from me,but advised that ultimate not really worth using,just gonna have to stick it in for the ron rating and take it easy till optimax back in stock

Gear Head

iTrader: (2)

I can recommend tesco 99', if anyone has a depo near them. Knock link seems a bit quieter with this + OB opposed to Optimax+OB

stockcar

thats a bit pointless unfortunately.................there are 10 octane points to 1 RON, so what you have bought increases the fuel by only 0.3RON!!!!

be better off with Millers octane+ (20 points / 2 full RON) or NF Race................................

alyn

rigga

iTrader: (4)

Tesco 99 onlyseems to be around the southern end of the country though

EddScott

We don't have Tesco 99, and we've had no Optimax for close to 2 weeks. I've been putting in Tesco SUL (which I assume to be re-badged ESSO SUL) and Millers booster.

Car feels quite happy on it.

scoobfan

Utter crap !

Rob

leecalcars

iTrader: (37)

No optimax in the lincs area either,just put tesco 97 ron in as thats all we have car is running like a bag of rusty nails (sti type r ) will have to be carefull on power can't be doing with a blown engine.

anthscooby01

anyone know if Tesco 99 ron available anywhere in North east. My scoob is coughing it guts up on crappy BP ultimate!!

kev m

I tried to get optimax from 2 local shell stations today, Grantham they are not expecting to get a delivery until well into the new year and the station on the A52 at Bingham havn't had a delivery of optimax for 3 weeks and don't know when they will.
In the end i got some Nitrox octane booster from a mate who uses it in his cossy rally car, it adds 20 points car and the car seems ok with that and normal Shell 95 ron

FLAT ERIC

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It's available here :-

Abingdon
Andover
Ashford Kent, Crooksfoot
Ashford Kent, Park Farm
Ashford Middlesex
Aylesbury
Baldock
Bar Hill, Cambridge
Barking
Barkingside
Basildon, Mayflower
Basildon, Pitsea
Basingstoke
Bedford, Cardington Road
Bedford, Goldington Road
Bishops Stortford
Blandford Forum
Bognor
Borehamwood
Bracknell North
Brent Cross Hendon Way
Brent Park
Brislington
Broadstairs
Bromley by Bow
Brooklands, Weybridge
Burgess Hill
Burlesdon Towers
Bury St Edmunds
Chelmsford, Princes Road
Cheshunt
Chichester
Colchester
Colney Hatch
Crawley, Hazelwick
Dereham
Didcot
Dover
Dunstable
Eastbourne
Elmers End
Ely
Feltham
Feltham, Dukes Green
Flitwick
Gallions Reach
Gatwick
Gillingham, Kent
Goodmayes
Great Yarmouth
Harlow, Church Langley
Harlow, Edinburgh Way
Hastings
Hatfield
Havant, Langstone
Hayes, Bull Bridge
Hemel Hempstead
Horsham
Ipswich
Kettering
Kings Lynn
Lakeside
Lea Valley
Leatherhead
Lewisham
Littlehampton
Lowestoft
Lunsford Park
Maidstone
Maldon
Martlesham
Milton
Milton Keynes, Bletchley
Milton Keynes, Kingston
Milton Keynes, Wolverton
New Malden
Newbury
Newmarket
Northampton
Osterley
Oxford
Peterborough
Ponders End
Poole, Branksome
Poole, Fleets Corner
Portsmouth
Potters Bar
Purley
Rainham
Ramsgate, Manston
Reading
Romford
Romford, Gallows
Saffron Waldon
Salisbury, Southampton Rd
Sandhurst
Sevenoaks, Riverhead
Sheerness
Shoreham
Sidcup
Slough, Wellington
Southend
Southwark
St Neots
Stevenage
Stowmarket
Sudbury
Sunbury
Surrey Quays
Sutton, Cheam Park Farm
Twickenham
Watford
West Durrington
Weston Flavell
Whitstable
Winchester
Yeading

More stores will be added over the coming weeks. Watch this space!

Mark

StickyMicky

the NOS one really is ****e, i put sum in as a last ditch attempt to get home from london (to newcastle??) and drove off bost till i found a optimax pump

noticed no real knock retard diffrence with the stuff in the tank, waste of cahs, but needs were a must

rigga

iTrader: (4)

say it as you mean it Rob..... ...im no expert on fuel,this is just what ive been told

dan rolfe

There`s no optimax down swansea way either but my cars fuel warning light is on and im a bit stuck really

Victim

When I can't get Optimax, I usually go for Sainsburies Super (97). Car seems happiest with this alternate. BP Ultimate sux and is WAY more expensive

DIPSY

I stick to millers octane booster with optimax

paul-s

optimax in full supply in all the garages where i live in a few miles radius - about 6.

Miniman

iTrader: (2)

I don't think you can rely on any lists of places unless these come straight from Shell. I found that some garages round our way had Optimax (Epsom/Ashstead), but garages round my work didn't (Guildford) at the beginning of last week. Then towards the end of last it was the other way round.