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More for local people in Plymouth but the Tesco at transit way is having its tanks and pumps cleaned due to contaminated fuel.my scooby has been running bit flat for a week now and even the Mrs fiat seicento sporting been playing up after using there.a lad that was doing the cleaning said they had got loads of crap and sludge out.funny the manager isaid was just routine...won't be using there again.
I will never use Tesco fuel in my pride and joy, never have and never will
They had issues a couple of years ago with bad fuel so sh1tty tanks doesn't surprise me.
Stick to selling food Mr Tesco and let shell do the petrol.
It is routine to clean tanks, Petrol stations are supposed to clean the tanks out every 5 years as far as I can remember, I'm sure this applied to all stations or did 5 or 6 years ago anyway
A pal of mine has recently had to have his injectors replaced in his modern mondeo (almost £1000) and the first thing the mechanic said when asked why they failed was,
A pal of mine has recently had to have his injectors replaced in his modern mondeo (almost £1000) and the first thing the mechanic said when asked why they failed was,
"do you use tesco fuel sir".....
I rest my case.
Was it a diesel Mondeo by any chance? Just for the record I use Momentum and have had my car mapped to run on it and had the map tweaked a couple of times and always made decent power without any problems since I have owned the car, maybe I'm just lucky, generally when you ask mappers etc they recommend V-power or Momentum
I've never heard a mapper recommend Tesco fuel to be honest, it's always V-Power but momentum if you have to...
Yep, pals car is a diesel.
Extracted from BoB Rawles website
Fuel choice is very important and strongly influences potential gains, for the best opportunity then Shell V Power or Tesco Momentum (99) must be the norm
I've never heard a mapper recommend Tesco fuel to be honest, it's always V-Power but momentum if you have to...
Yep, pals car is a diesel.
If I'm honest I was told V-power as a first choice but that Momentum was absolutely fine, as said my car was mapped on Momentum, reason I asked if it was a diesel Mondeo is because the injectors are a known to be rubbish and often need replacing, 9 times out of 10 when a diesel Mondeo comes in with running faults it's usually down to a duff injector from my experience, it would be very interesting to know what exactly was wrong with the injectors for someone to able to tell it was bad fuel from Tesco that damaged them? Might be worth telling your friend if he uses that mechanic often about the injectors.
Last edited by WildPikey; Apr 26, 2012 at 10:15 PM.