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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Road Hog Mad on 15 August 2010, 08:25:11
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For the V6 people of course! :D
Supermarket petrol I am staying clear of, I have just switched to Shell and am a member of the drivers club. :D
You do have to spend £45,000 before you're eligible for a free 10p mix of sweets but I am convinced there fuel is better and lasts longer!
I have heard that this supermarket fuel has 15% ethanol, which is 12% more than what Shell use.
Whilst on the subject of fuel, does anyone run their diesel omega on cooking oil? :y
Also considering an LPG conversion, saw it advertised for £900 in one day, I think that's the best offer I have seen so far.
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i run my omega on super unleded :y
i run my every day car on blue diesel so cheap can fill my tank 4 £20 cooking oil stinks lol :y :y :y :y :y :y :y
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Neither, autogas ;)
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I'm doing at least 1k a week - as i only get 20p/mile I fill up at Morrisons/tesco/asda... (clubcard & Morris miles!!) and reliably get >28MPG... (mostly mway - "Normal driving :y") ... On the few occasions i filled up at shell ect i did notice a slight increase in mpg (30.4)... and the car seems to run better... but i'm not sure it justifies the extra 6p/lt...
Blue Diesel ? Wassat?... Not Kero surely?
When i lived in wales - it wass'nt unknown for the occasional tank of red to find its way into the landrover of a local farmer (who was well known for being a bit "warm" around a pound note!)...
My mate ran his Citroen on cooking oil - Just filtered - but i gather the PSV engine has a heating jacket on the fuel filter (start on normal deisel & switch when warm)
... Although it was like following a chip shop !
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I use Petrol! :y
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sorry :-[ seriously though usually standard Shell unleaded,i ran mine on the dearer optimax or whatever its called for 3 months and noticed no difference in the car at all,just need to fill it more often :D
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For me I just use unleaded from any garage, including supermarkets, offering it at the best price as I have found over many years no difference at all in performance or car maintenence needs. ;) ;)
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Blue Diesel ? Wassat?... Not Kero surely?
A mate of mine runs his Veccy on vegetable oil mixed with Jet A-1 from.. wait for it.. The local Police helicopter. :o
They have to take a daily sample of fuel from both their fuel bowser and the aircraft tanks to be stored in case it needs to be used as evidence and when they've finished with it they give it to him. ;D
Kevin
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Cheapo crap for me, couldn't tell the difference when I put expensive stuff in ::)
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I use Shell V-Power 93 octane in all my cars, except our little 2.5 I4 Cutlass Ciera... that gets 89 octane. V-Power seems to work the best, especially when I had my supercharged Pontiac Bonneville, plus it only has 10% ethanol or less.
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I use super in the BMW and you really can notice a difference in it. Other cars have been less noticeable, excluding the SAAB.
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The kind that goes bang!
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most of the fuels are supplied by bp anyway weather it be supermarket or main garages, it just is packaged different in on the tankers! ;D i think sainsburys though is seperate, cant remember.
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blue diesel is in fact red diesel i dye it blue and as it is hard to trace what it was you cant get done 4 it :y :y :y
can buy the dye off e bay go on and give it a go best way to save money lol 8-) 8-)
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LPG
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asda for years
back on LPG now for the 6 year over 3 cars
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Petrol? Oh, that stuff I put in about 3 times a year ::) ::) Can't remember where I filled up last... Well, it was in February ;) ;)
Autogas all the way :y :y :y
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I use Shell V-Power 93 octane in all my cars, except our little 2.5 I4 Cutlass Ciera... that gets 89 octane. V-Power seems to work the best, especially when I had my supercharged Pontiac Bonneville, plus it only has 10% ethanol or less.
LOL, American petrol is pretty poor ;D
The minimum we can by in the UK (and across most of western europe) is 95 Octane
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Petrol? Oh, that stuff I put in about 3 times a year ::) ::) Can't remember where I filled up last... Well, it was in February ;) ;)
Autogas all the way :y :y :y
I use plenty of petrol when I run out of gas ;D
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Petrol? Oh, that stuff I put in about 3 times a year ::) ::) Can't remember where I filled up last... Well, it was in February ;) ;)
Autogas all the way :y :y :y
I use plenty of petrol when I run out of gas ;D
Which reminds me, its on vapour now. Should I fill at BP here (68.9p) or risk getting to Milton Keynes (60.9p)... ...decisions, decisions.
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Petrol? Oh, that stuff I put in about 3 times a year ::) ::) Can't remember where I filled up last... Well, it was in February ;) ;)
Autogas all the way :y :y :y
I use plenty of petrol when I run out of gas ;D
Which reminds me, its on vapour now. Should I fill at BP here (68.9p) or risk getting to Milton Keynes (60.9p)... ...decisions, decisions.
Stick a tenners worth in at BP, then fill at MK :y
Even at BP's extortionate prices it's still cheaper than petrol ;) ;)
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Petrol? Oh, that stuff I put in about 3 times a year ::) ::) Can't remember where I filled up last... Well, it was in February ;) ;)
Autogas all the way :y :y :y
I use plenty of petrol when I run out of gas ;D
Which reminds me, its on vapour now. Should I fill at BP here (68.9p) or risk getting to Milton Keynes (60.9p)... ...decisions, decisions.
Stick a tenners worth in at BP, then fill at MK :y
Even at BP's extortionate prices it's still cheaper than petrol ;) ;)
Nah, you know I boycott those retards at Brackley BP. Even if it costs me more, I have that warm feeling that those pillocks aren't getting anything out of me ;)
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The tractor uses local garage Esso and runs superbly. :y Avoid using the 'supermarket stuff' in it. :-[
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The tractor uses local garage Esso and runs superbly. :y Avoid using the 'supermarket stuff' in it. :-[
I used to alternate my tractor - 2 or 3 tanks of cheapo Asda, then a tank of good stuff to reduce the black smoke ;D
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Cheapo crap for me, couldn't tell the difference when I put expensive stuff in ::)
Have to agree there. I've tried the super unleaded, Ultimate etc. and can honestly say there's no noticeable difference from using cheaper supermarket fuel, so I tend to fill up at our local Sainsbury's.
Autoexpress magazine ran a comprehensive test on all the different fuels a few months back and there was negligable difference in the quality between the major oil companies and supermarket fuel. Also, most supermarket fuel comes from the same refineries.
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Super unleaded all the way, even use it in my mini as well!!
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2 Star in mine :D
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All tastes the same to me :y
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just whats on best offer at the time
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For the V6 people of course! :D
Supermarket petrol I am staying clear of, I have just switched to Shell and am a member of the drivers club. :D
You do have to spend £45,000 before you're eligible for a free 10p mix of sweets but I am convinced there fuel is better and lasts longer!
I have heard that this supermarket fuel has 15% ethanol, which is 12% more than what Shell use.
Whilst on the subject of fuel, does anyone run their diesel omega on cooking oil? :y
Also considering an LPG conversion, saw it advertised for £900 in one day, I think that's the best offer I have seen so far.
Where was the advert mate Im going to LPG it in a couple of months time.
Andy
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For the V6 people of course! :D
Supermarket petrol I am staying clear of, I have just switched to Shell and am a member of the drivers club. :D
You do have to spend £45,000 before you're eligible for a free 10p mix of sweets but I am convinced there fuel is better and lasts longer!
I have heard that this supermarket fuel has 15% ethanol, which is 12% more than what Shell use.
Whilst on the subject of fuel, does anyone run their diesel omega on cooking oil? :y
Also considering an LPG conversion, saw it advertised for £900 in one day, I think that's the best offer I have seen so far.
Where was the advert mate Im going to LPG it in a couple of months time.
Andy
I wouldn't touch a "one day wonder" with a barge pole ... takes at least 3 days to do the job properly. If they do it in a day they are NOT removing the inlet manifold to drill it .. so where does all the swarf go ??
Kevin Woods posted some pictures of the amount of swarf generated when he drilled a manifold on a bench .. I'd hate to think of all that rubbish inside my engine .. :(
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I put petrol in when the needle is just about to hit the red zone. Wherever I am at the time gets my business.
I do however stick a tanks worth of 'super' or 'V-Power' or whatever name stuff in every now and again. I dont know why, because I receive no positive gain in performance or economy.
I've seen many a review which tests different fuels in different engines. Only the likes of Impreza's and the performance Honda VTEC jobbies show ANY measurable performance/economy gains. The likes of our old hat, rough engineered V6, awesome sounding engines dont care what you put through them ;D
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I use Shell V-Power 93 octane in all my cars, except our little 2.5 I4 Cutlass Ciera... that gets 89 octane. V-Power seems to work the best, especially when I had my supercharged Pontiac Bonneville, plus it only has 10% ethanol or less.
LOL, American petrol is pretty poor ;D
The minimum we can by in the UK (and across most of western europe) is 95 Octane
American octane ratings are different to ours though. They use Pump Octane Number where we use Research Octane Number.
89 US octane = 93 UK octane
93 US octane = 97 UK octane
.. but there is rubbish fuel available out in the sticks. Ask my mate who tried to drive from Houston to San Francisco in a cossie turbo running <mumble>BAR of boost. I think he made it to Vegas before his cylinder head was declared BER, and most of that was on the back of a recovery truck.
Kevin
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I use Shell V-Power 93 octane in all my cars, except our little 2.5 I4 Cutlass Ciera... that gets 89 octane. V-Power seems to work the best, especially when I had my supercharged Pontiac Bonneville, plus it only has 10% ethanol or less.
LOL, American petrol is pretty poor ;D
The minimum we can by in the UK (and across most of western europe) is 95 Octane
American octane ratings are different to ours though. They use Pump Octane Number where we use Research Octane Number.
89 US octane = 93 UK octane
93 US octane = 97 UK octane
.. but there is rubbish fuel available out in the sticks. Ask my mate who tried to drive from Houston to San Francisco in a cossie turbo running <mumble>BAR of boost. I think he made it to Vegas before his cylinder head was declared BER, and most of that was on the back of a recovery truck.
Kevin
A friend of mine who runs a fleet of Camaro's categorically states (and substantiated by RR figures) that the vehicles perform much better in the UK on RON than in the States. Dont know if there are any other contributing factors, other than air temperature I guess?