Tesco's petrol stations - Please boycot!

Originally Posted by jonny.boyd

To be honest I wouldn't touch supermarket fuel with a barge pole. Supermarket fuel is utter carp! I filled up my SV once with Morrisons fuel and the bike idled horribly and ran erratically... never again! It's Shell every time for me now!

Nonsense. I used Tesco super unleaded, filled up 3 gerry cans and took them to Cadwell for a race meeting. The chief scroot used my fuel to test and use as the base sample for any fuel testing carried out at that race meeting. It came up very good on the tests and in fact was the best fuel he had tested all weekend in the end.

Getting one bad batch from one fuel station isnt enough to label all supermarket fuel as crap. In fact I prefer to use our local tesco (barring the 5P a litre they do off with your shopping) as its a very well used station and has regular fill ups so you know the fuel isnt sat in the tanks for long.

[Messie]

This has happened 3 times now and I had to check it quite thoroughly because the first time it happened I accused poor daughter of driving like a loon! I can't explain the difference - and even I know it's not 'watered' down - but it is a consistent difference.

As for the OP (sorry to have drailed your original intent) whilst I can appreciate your annoyance I do think your reaction is a little OTT. As someone else elsewhere on the org has said today, the are children starving, wars happening, etc, and maybe this isn't the most important thing to be getting so hot under the collar about! Or why not transfer some of the angst to something a bit more worthwhile, like ... well, pick your issue, really!

[appollo1]

i always sit on my bike when filling up and am always careful when the fuel starts to reach the top to avoid spillages.

my father in law did an experiment once with his diesel car. he filled it up at a supermarket then drove until it needed filling again. then he filled up with shell diesel and did the same route / driving and he got mor mpg with the shell fuel. i believe it is to do with the additives in the fuel as there are more in supermarket fuel.

[Dave20046]

It's just daft, it's not a huge risk but there's a minuscule risk I guess* so as a big international company liable to many court cases they've taken steps to avoid it. If people weren't money grabbing unscrupulous pircks then I guess we wouldn't have so many day to day annoyances like this.
I do agree it'd probably **** me off unless then phrased it right, did you complain about the attendant at the same time too out of interest?


I'm guessing they've had an isolated case of someone nearly burning down a forecourt from spilling fuel on something hot or slipping on diesel and going over or something. It's like the mobile phone thing its bollogs in real terms.

Originally Posted by 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

This is more like discrimination rather than 'elf n safety gone mad' though. I'd never go back to a station that did this to me.

@ Messie - No worries.

My reaction may seem a bit OTT, but with a company as big a Tesco's they should have guidance that is generic to all stores, and apply it consistantly. On top of that to misquote HSE and APRE (?) guidance, as regulations is wrong. I work in local government, and if I was to go around making up rubbish, or misquoting legislation, I would be out of work, or in court as quick as, well a quick thing!

On top of that regulation has it's place in law, guidance means exactly that. If it was illegal to fill up whilst still on the bike I would'nt do it, but it isnt, and I wont be bullied into thinking it is! (No one here - Tescos again)

I believe the latest APSE Blue book doesnt have the not to fill up while sitting on the bike entry anymore it was revised last year and that was removed

I fill up with my bike on the side stand. It's nice to get off the thing sometime.



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[Jayneflakes]

I made a serious complaint against ASDA in Weston Super Mare yesterday after an incident that nearly had me sticking one on the Security Moron. This was due to the ridiculous Helmet rule that they have, I would not mind but I was actually leaving the store, it was raining outside and I put my helmet was on as I was leaving. Sadly the Security Guard took it to another level and got abusive before then using a homophobic slur at me. Once I was back home it was a very angry Jayneflakes who e-mailed ASDA Customer Services demanding that the man I complained about was sent on Diversity training as soon as possible.

A while back I used Morrisons and was asked to remove my helmet as I entered, however as soon as they realised that it was a Flip Front, they said no problem and let me carry on.

As far as I am concerned, ASDA can F*** Off.

In regards to Tesco, have any of you had problems buying bike Mags there? My Step Son, who is very nearly sixteen years of age (and has his first Bike sat in the Garage waiting for him to be able to get his license.) was refused a sale when he tried to buy a copy of Ride Magazine. Tesco have a new policy that does not allow the sale of Bike Mags to anyone who is under twenty five and cannot produce ID that shows they are over eighteen. I was never aware that Bike Mags were age restricted.

Frankly, I find all of the big supermarket chains are in some ways revolting.

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

In regards to Tesco, have any of you had problems buying bike Mags there? My Step Son, who is very nearly sixteen years of age (and has his first Bike sat in the Garage waiting for him to be able to get his license.) was refused a sale when he tried to buy a copy of Ride Magazine. Tesco have a new policy that does not allow the sale of Bike Mags to anyone who is under twenty five and cannot produce ID that shows they are over eighteen. I was never aware that Bike Mags were age restricted.

This is rediculous, its a bike mag not a grot mag FFS... But I know somone who works on the checkouts at Morrisons and if the order comes from up high they have no real choice, some of the other employees are brown nosed back stabbers who will report them if they do not follow the rules to the letter and that could cost her job.. Not an easy thing to replace at the moment.

Personally I always get off the bike, if its pay at the pump I still take my lid off sometimes, not so much now it's a bit cooler though.

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by hardhat_harry

I believe the latest APSE Blue book doesnt have the not to fill up while sitting on the bike entry anymore it was revised last year and that was removed

Yep that is the case.
The research was redone by the fire brigade and the risk was minimal.


With regards to fuel I've found Tesco, Esso, BP and Total 95RON's are crap in the bike (when on my normal riding, which is a lot of urban riding and stop-start) and have had similar results to Messie with the ASDA Diesel (poor consumption but a lovely amount of noise from the unburnt fuel being dropped into the pipe).

I've found Shell, ASDA, Tesco 99 (desperate and all left on forecourt) and Gulf are some of the better fuels for efficiency and my typical riding.
What I found is with the poorer fuels I get between 100 and 110 to a tank (12l to reserve) and around the 120 mark on the better fuels