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[Radar]

I just filled up and the local petrol station was doing a 1 hour special offer of V - Power for the price of normal unleaded!! Result

PS - This is not an April Fools

[Kiksomass]

V power is the best petrol you can get for petrol engines and BP Ultimate diesel is the best for diesel engines.As I deliver thousands of litres of the stuff,I personally use BP Ultimate unleaded every one in five fill ups. On a long run usually it does make a little difference as well as keeping the engine clean. I used to use V power in a motorcycle I had and it ran like a dream.

[tunnie]

the 'premium' fuels do work, i noticed smoother idle slightly more power at high rpm in mine, though never a big increase in range. I used to treat mine every so often to the stuff.

[Kiksomass]

Also,so I'm told by those who do track days,BP 102 is only really any use if your engine is set up correctly. Typically it would give you a 10% increase in BHP. Not many places sell it and I would think these days it would be about £3 a litre and would be dispensed under a prepay system.A full tank could be an expensive drive off!

[STMO999]

It really makes no difference on either of my 1.6's.

[r1]

it does make a diffrence IF your car is set up for it,if not you  are just fooling yourself

[pembsomega]

it makes sod all differance on most cars, if yours designed to run on unleaded (95) then putting a fuel with a higher octance rating in in will make no differance.

octane ratings show a fuels resistance to knock (detenation)

running a car designed or tuned for a high octance fuel on a lower octane fuel will result in poor performance and eventually detenation of a piston.

my last impreza was an import sti, designed to run on the 102 octane fuel in japan, putting unleaded or even normal super unleaded in it resulted in misfires and a check engien light. i had to run it on vpower with an addded octance boosteron the rollers it made 304 bhp with v power and 328bhp with the booster in and with no knock decatable listening with knock cans. it was a standard sti type r.

putting vpower in a standard uk car is a waste of money as they are designed and mapped for our fuels.

[Radar]

i remeber reading once a study done by the aa said 3 tanks of the stuff does help clean your engine

[r1]

i remeber reading once a study done by the aa said 3 tanks of the stuff does help clean your engine

so does one can of engine cleaner at 15 pounds a tin!

[MickAP]

V power is the best petrol you can get for petrol engines and BP Ultimate diesel is the best for diesel engines.As I deliver thousands of litres of the stuff,I personally use BP Ultimate unleaded every one in five fill ups. On a long run usually it does make a little difference as well as keeping the engine clean. I used to use V power in a motorcycle I had and it ran like a dream.

But not the TD....other more modern diesels, yes.
Mine ran like a bag of shite last time I put that in :-?

Mick

[Radar]

i remeber reading once a study done by the aa said 3 tanks of the stuff does help clean your engine

so does one can of engine cleaner at 15 pounds a tin!

Maybe but i would be reluctant to do this as it might remove too many deposits all in one go that could affect seals etc.., compared to this more gentle approach.

Any way this has gone off the original topic as i wished to let others know about the offer and see if it was a nationwide offer.

[Del Boy]

Van is run on the cheapest diesel, car is ran on super unleaded from sainsburys, that only because it doesn't like older fuel. Luckily for me the mrs fuels that  If I had it though it'd make do with 10 quids worth of fuel maximum when it needed it and the cheapest stuff.