Phil57
Prominent Member
Yippee, Petrol now 99.9p per litre at Morrisons and at Asda.
110.9 at Asda and 111.9 for Mor.
The price is 80% tax, so I blame the Brown regime for the high cost of petrol, not the oil producers. He's got some bloody nerve telling the oil companies to pass the drop on to consumers ASAP.
No politics please.
Diesel.
Anybody know their diesel price yet?
Still 121.9p at my local station......120.9p at the closest Tesco. (Diesel)
About time too...Off topic, I was talking to a mate at work the other day and he was saying how supermarket fuel is inferior compared to the likes of Shell, BP etc, due to the supermarket putting less additives and cleaning agents into their tankers..Personally I always buy supermarket fuel and have yet to have any fuel related problems (blockages etc) but he never does since he was told by a rally team mechanic not to touch it with a barge pole..
i only use v power because it makes a huge difference to how my car drives, it feels like it has 30% more torque, it pulls much harder low down and the dsg box changes gear alot less. On thin petrol it feels like the car has asthma. On a normal euro box theres no point, go for the cheap stuff every time.
About time too...Off topic, I was talking to a mate at work the other day and he was saying how supermarket fuel is inferior compared to the likes of Shell, BP etc, due to the supermarket putting less additives and cleaning agents into their tankers..Personally I always buy supermarket fuel and have yet to have any fuel related problems (blockages etc) but he never does since he was told by a rally team mechanic not to touch it with a barge pole..
Could we have an English translation for those of us who don't speak "Clarksonese" please
One of the arguments to steer clear of supermarket stuff is that the high turnover and refilling of the tanks causes any sediments or bits to be stirred up alot more than say a shell garage which may have slightly less demand, allowing the sediments to settle to the bottom .
Also I imagine that tanks sitting idle would get condensation build up in the half empty tank meaning you will be getting water in the fuel. Either way I'd prefer 'fresh' fuel.never bought into this sediments etc in a tank argument, we removed a petrol station many moons ago and it was about 30 years old, once the specialist contractor had removed the fuel and tank I had a look and it was all spotless, just clean fuel no bits / gunk anywhere.
also by logic if a tanks being constantly filled an emptied any bits would get flushed out very quickly and would not build up into a sludge
there's also another factor most people dont take into account, petrol degrades very fast, initially it drops quite fast (F1 fuel is very newly refined) then more slowly over the months, so it is better to go to a busy garage to get fresher fuel.