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[The Barge Captain]

Is super unleaded worth the money? Does it affect performance significantly? Has anybody tried that new ferrari v stuff that shell are advertising?

[omegaV6CD]

Is super unleaded worth the money? Does it affect performance significantly? Has anybody tried that new ferrari v stuff that shell are advertising?

Yes it makes a huge differencein the way the engine behaves making it feel smoother and stronger allowing the ecu to use the best timing curve. I never used anything other than super unleaded.

[Markie]

Does make a smalll difference i believe, proividing you use it constantly and providing your using a car of a reasonable engine size.....ie 2.0 upwards

[TheBoy]

i've used v-power, but haven't been able to test extra performance...

[Big Rod]

I hate splitting hairs. I use High octane stuff whenever I can, but I have found that maybe one in three or four tankfuls of poverty spec' seems to have a beneficial effect too!!

[Jimbob]

This will annoy a few im sure, but I'm loving Tesco's super unleaded at the mo,
Very good, up with Vpower, prefer it to esso or bp's offerring, and its cheap, esp with 5p a litre off with your shopping, Ive just filled up at 83.9 per litre!
I hate the ordinary stuff though, car runs horrible on that.
I do think vpower is better than optimax as well.

However this is in 4 pot's, the father-in-laws Cav v6 runs about the same on anything (even petrol-diesel mix! he has a van as well and sometimes gets em mixed up!)

[bob.dent]

I usually use bog standard unleaded in mine (either Sainsbury's or BP), but every now and again I put in a tankful of BP Ultimate. Can't say that I notice a great deal of difference apart from slightly better performance from Ultimate.

[Admin]

I have found car runs noticably better on the higher octane stuff.

I avoid supermarket petrol wherever possible (not tried Tesco stuff yet).
The other half took the car out the other night and put Sainsburys normal unleaded in...  
Now finally getting shot of the damn stuff, car is so much worse with it!

If you have a car with the setup to alter timing based on octane levels, it would be silly not to take advantage.  

[The Barge Captain]

OK, but who produces the petrol for Tescons, Sainsburys Morrison etc.?

[STMO123]

I've just sterted using V power. The car is ten times better. Then again, just had the knock sensor fixed, so that may have a little bit to do with it

[M-Tek Performance]

V-Power is "apparently" rebranded Optimax..

Optimax was 98.6RON, V-Power 99RON

hmmmmmm

the do ron ron ron the do ron ron..

[STMO123]

OK, but who produces the petrol for Tescons, Sainsburys Morrison etc.?

Thats a good question.... :-?

[Auto Addict]

OK, but who produces the petrol for Tescons, Sainsburys Morrison etc.?

I think MarJay knows the answer to that.....

[bob.dent]

OK, but who produces the petrol for Tescons, Sainsburys Morrison etc.?

A question for the Omega Gods methinks

[Salty]

Used to use optimax in the volvo, It always seemed to go great on it.
 I have tried some of the v power stuff in the meega but didn't really notice a vast difference, but I will be trying more. I always used to use shell in the astra GTE got nearly 40 miles more to a full tank over supermarket petrol, so I've tended to stick to shell ever since.