Tesco's petrol stations - Please boycot!

Originally Posted by Dicky Ticker

Sorry mate but it all comes from the same storage facility and Shell's promises have just been slated as untrue. Providing it is RON95 specified fuel it goes in as cheap as I can get it without going out of my way.
You very rarely find a cheap Shell filling station

Didn't Tesco have a problem with their petrol a couple of years ago? I don't remember it affecting anyone else

I believe it was not just Tesco,it was with a batch of refined fuel which an additive had been omitted affecting the Lamba sensors on some vehicles but not all

Fair doos for some reason Tesco just stuck in my head

[Messie]

I'm not sure about Tesco fuel but I will never use Asda again, albeit for deisel rather than petrol.
I've got a gizmo thing in my car which I can set to show me average miles per gallon. When I fill up at a branded station - usually Texaco - it reads steadily between 58 and 61 miles per gallon.
Whenever it has Asda deisel in - when my daughter borrows it and puts it in for me - it reads a steady 51-53 mpg. And I do a regular 50+ miles per day so changing driving conditions don't account for it.
In my opinion, the cheaper price in no way makes the fuel consuption worth it, and that's without any consideration of other things that may or may not be in there and which might affect my engine
Supermarket fuel - just not worth it!

[dyzio]

Originally Posted by kellyjo

I honestly dont see what the problem is with getting off the bike.

Not much of a problem to be honest, it's making up stupid rules just like this one that's annoying.

Fuel is pretty much all the same, the main difference over supermarket v oil comapany fuel is that the later has different/more additivies in it. With a bike like the SV it won't much difference, my bike/car have had both fuels in them. It hasn't affected how they function. Its more how I ride, tyres temperature ect that effects how the fuel efficent the actual engine is.

Oh dude, why get so worked up about something so small? I would suggest it was some douche bag on a power trip. It is actual safer probally to get off the bike, I'm sure u don't want to covered in petrol which is a bad idea...Tho I don't get why ppl have so many issues getting fuel, the biggest fuel problem I have found is that it takes an age for the staff to turn the pump on.

i never use supermarket fuel unless i need it desperatly its to watered down and gives crap mile per gallon.
i have done a certain amount of riding on super market fuel then on shell, same route same amount of miles, very simalar times and speeds an i found the i used a litre more on the supermarket crap, plus a couple of shell garages around me are at 132.9 when tesco is 131.9 but its false econemy you spend a penny less per ltr but end up having to put more in each fill.
as for getting off the bike i never do theres no real point, the likely hood of a fuel fire is very very small its just some bulls**t rule they have made up to cover incompetent staff unable to watch a forecourt

Messie that is a huge difference,which being honest I have never come across.
Irrelative of where I fill up and over the last month I have been up and down to Lancs and Scotland and my fuel consumption has been between 47-49mpg over the last 3000 miles so I can only speak as I find. I have been using supermarket,branded and even on one occasion Jet petrol

[mister c]

Had the same type of issue with Morrisons in Crewe. They wouldn't serve me because I had a crash helmet on, but they did serve a lad wearing shades & a baseball cap. Haven't been back since, but as somebody said earlier, it won't make a blind bit of difference.
The only plus point is that I've found a much cheaper place to buy mine from now

Loonytoon,Please enlighten me "Watered down" watered down by what------I would have thought that completely illegal to sell fuel that is sold as RON95 which did not comply with the petro-chem regulations for that grade of fuel