normal tank range?

[JJ Werrett]

what bout for a 1.4 auto someone must know roughly as like see why mine guzzles so much if this is the case. as for £30 i get round town around 140-150 miles

[Blitzerman]

what bout for a 1.4 auto someone must know roughly as like see why mine guzzles so much if this is the case. as for £30 i get round town around 140-150 miles

thats absolute POO, unless u drive like a TIT!!!. or uve got something seriously wrong, when do you fill up?!. I get about 250 miles from full, no magic button. and i fill up when it gets to about a quarter left! never let the light come on tbh!

[JJ Werrett]

wouldnt mind if did drive round like a tit, i drive around area i live and work no motorway runs part from a weekend, otheerwise it all small town runs

[beska133]

JJ i'd drop a bottle of redex in your tank, when your low, under a quarter, drop a whole bottle in to clean your injectors and whole system, also where you filling up? im sure your aware of the general rule of stay away from supermarket crap?

[JJ Werrett]

I fill at morrsions but might try shell unleaded fuel saver, does redex work as heard diffrent reviews?

[puggled]

Official combined figures for the manual / auto are 44 / 38.

So if most can get 250 out a tank you should be looking at 215.

BUT town driving is always a bigger drain on economy. Manual figure is given as 30mpg for urban cycle. 30/44 * 215 = 146.6

So maybe 140-150 is about right for an auto only used in town?

Edited October 13, 2011 by puggled

[JJ Werrett]

ah ok sounds bout right then, glad you know your maths as i dont

i bout bottle of it so can only try it really see how goes

[DOm 12332]

i get max 270 out of a full tank .... wish i could get more lol

[Blitzerman]

This supermarket fuel thing is a myth. it comes from main stream companies, texaco, bp and people like that, its literally just sold under the supermarket name. theres no difference in the fuel quality. Ive filled up with texaco and tesco, and get reasonably within about 5 miles difference in consumption.

[puggled]

You get more additives in branded fuel, but the basic blend is the same. They add in the additives as they fill the tanker.

[JoeA]

I heard they sell the dregs from the bottom of the tank to the supermarkets.

[JJ Werrett]

so will this redex do anything to my car to help or also just a myth for using etc?

[puggled]

Not sure about petrol, but with my diesels Wynn's worked a lot better.

[RobG]

I do a lot of short trips around the county, I barely get 200 miles to a tank, and that's running in a diet of vpower.

[JoeA]

Fuelsave has saved me £££s

[beska133]

redex works as it says it does, Also shell fuelsave is extreamly good, personally i use total excellium 97, which has cleaning addatives in, but you want to definatly drop a bottle of redex in the tank once a year or so, and it is true, supermarkets get the dregs of the huge raw unleaded tanks that come from the east, supermarket fuel is cheap for a reason!

[JoeA]

redex works as it says it does, Also shell fuelsave is extreamly good, personally i use total excellium 97, which has cleaning addatives in, but you want to definatly drop a bottle of redex in the tank once a year or so, and it is true, supermarkets get the dregs of the huge raw unleaded tanks that come from the east, supermarket fuel is cheap for a reason!

+1

[Blitzerman]

I wouldnt say this is necessarily true, its cheap because they buy LOADS of it!. and can afford to sell it cheaper!.

I personally cannot justify spending like 7p more for the same stuff from say texaco!.

you imagine the amount one super market chain must use a day!? probs 5x more than the likes of just a regular fuel station. and tbh, how can their be dregs in a fuel tanker? those things will be drained dry!, as every little bit left in there would be worth something, i highly doubt supermarkets get the stuff at the bottom as in theory, they have filters and stuff in the tankers, so even if u did get the stuff at the bottom, it would still be of the same quality.

and the only difference between high octane fuel and normal is the molecule chain length, its increased to make a slower burn of the fuel.

Edited October 15, 2011 by Blitzerman

[Defcon5]

I wouldnt say this is necessarily true, its cheap because they buy LOADS of it!. and can afford to sell it cheaper!.

I personally cannot justify spending like 7p more for the same stuff from say texaco!.

Supermarkets can sell fuel cheap as they make their profits from the supermarket - the petrol station is only there to increase footfall into the store.

I only use V-Power in mine (although at 9p/l more than regular, its a bit of a piss take) and can get 350 to a tank. One day Ill go for 400!

[Blitzerman]

Supermarkets can sell fuel cheap as they make their profits from the supermarket - the petrol station is only there to increase footfall into the store.

I only use V-Power in mine (although at 9p/l more than regular, its a bit of a piss take) and can get 350 to a tank. One day Ill go for 400!

duno why people class supermarket fuel as second grade? :S

yeah they make some miserable profit on fuel tbh

and Motorway driving? 350 miles?

[Kent]

170 miles per tank on my gti haha, actually probabaly about 200 miles as I don't wait for petrol light

Edited October 15, 2011 by Kent

[Defcon5]

and Motorway driving? 350 miles?

Yeah, I work shifts so often drive at night so there is never any traffic. Sometimes I can get to work without braking if I hit green lights!

[beska133]

Blitzerman, i did some testing for Shell a few months back, and the figures show that supermarket fuel hardly managed to hit 95 octane, tesco being the worse, with recorded levels at 90 octane, making your car run like a pig, that also means that 10% of what your burning will turn into engine clogging loverly black stuff, carbon, lowering your fuel economy,

Even so, 7p a litre over a full tank is about £4, i fill with premium stuff, and it costs me an extra £5, and for the proved benefits, and the prevention of serious damage, that extra £5 a week is well worth it.

I've seen loads of people have problems with there cars, and it all goes down to they fill up at tesco or asda.

Dosent mean you have to fill up with premium stuff, Shell Fuelsave, there standard unleaded has recorded levels of octane from 95-97, and with its heightened cleaning agents and fuel saving properties, its worth a try, and when i live, its normally 1p cheaper than tesco and asda!

Not only will you loose mpg with super market fuel, the difference you pay for branded fuel, you will save in mpg ; )

Hope that helps : )

[Lupopo]

Blitzerman, i did some testing for Shell a few months back, and the figures show that supermarket fuel hardly managed to hit 95 octane, tesco being the worse, with recorded levels at 90 octane, making your car run like a pig, that also means that 10% of what your burning will turn into engine clogging loverly black stuff, carbon, lowering your fuel economy,

Even so, 7p a litre over a full tank is about £4, i fill with premium stuff, and it costs me an extra £5, and for the proved benefits, and the prevention of serious damage, that extra £5 a week is well worth it.

I've seen loads of people have problems with there cars, and it all goes down to they fill up at tesco or asda.

Dosent mean you have to fill up with premium stuff, Shell Fuelsave, there standard unleaded has recorded levels of octane from 95-97, and with its heightened cleaning agents and fuel saving properties, its worth a try, and when i live, its normally 1p cheaper than tesco and asda!

Not only will you loose mpg with super market fuel, the difference you pay for branded fuel, you will save in mpg ; )

Hope that helps : )

A friend of mine recently did the same sort of research (for another petrol company) and the results were pretty simular to the above

[Derv]

When a friend of mine took his injectors to be cleaned by a specialist company, they could tell they had a full time diet of Shell Optimax/V-Power, as they were in good condition despite high miles. They told him that they could tell when a car had been run on supermarket fuel, as the injectors would be full of crud.

I always use Shell fuel when possible, as my cars seem to like it the most. I have had to use Esso a few times when desperate, and performance and economy were compromised each time. I have to be really desperate to use superarket fuel.

Having said that there were the occasional dodgy batches of Shell fuel floating around when it was branded as Optimax. I was getting timing pulls more severe than regular unleaded. It could have beem fatal for engines without knock sensing.

It's a shame UK fuel is generally so crap compared to the stuff available on the continent. I always look forward to using some V-Power100.