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Nov 12th, 2018, 12:38 | #11 | |
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So yes your point is fair it is entirely possible for tankers to deliver different "mixes" to different customers.
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Nov 12th, 2018, 14:54 | #12 |
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My D3 C70 has its MoT in the next couple of weeks, so I’ve been using Millers Ecomax for the last few fillups, in the hope of it doing a bit of cleaning. Might be a waste of money, but it might not....
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When i ran my Jeep, i got an extra 3mpg running on Shell diesel compared to Supermarket fuel, also the wife reckon the Jeep was quieter as well, cept when playing Pink Floyd 😆 on the way home, now it's Foo Fighters, Glastonbury 17.
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Nov 13th, 2018, 09:30 | #14 | |
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Similar reasons as to why cattle (or any animal eg sheep or other loose animals) trucks have the cattle penned into sections of the truck so they do not cause the truck to lurch forward after the truck has stopped safely.
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Nov 13th, 2018, 13:14 | #15 |
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My son works for one of the big oil companies and dispatches fuel from the refinery.
He says they supply all the supermarkets as well as some branded petrol stations and its all exactly the same fuel. Shell and BP may well be different, but aside from them there's nothing much different between supermarket fuel and much of the other fuel you can buy in this country (except the price.) That's partly because the supermarkets buy in huge quantities. He always uses supermarket stuff...
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Nov 13th, 2018, 19:02 | #16 |
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There is a minimum specification that road fuels need to attain, Ron, Cetane etc.
The fuels leave the refineries equal to each destination, be it their own franchised forecourts or whatever supermarkets they have the contracts with or whoever has bought on the spot market. It comes from the same tanks. However if you look at my first sentence you will note ' minimum spec' mentioned. So you get good days and you get minimum spec days. That's all down to the blend on the day, some days you may get lucky. Been doing this for a while now
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Nov 13th, 2018, 19:43 | #17 |
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I'd recommend Tunap injector cleaner. I used it on a full tank and I've seen a decent return (extra 3 mpg). I believe the mainstream fuel is fair better than the supermarket brand. I've seen far too many clogged injectors and egr valves from owners using this fuel.
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Nov 13th, 2018, 21:09 | #18 |
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Im fairly confident that all the supermarkets are served by Greenergy who I *think* also serve Esso - they're a big supplier.
From what I've read, the core fuel is the same, it's the additives added that differ. And as we pretty much know, the super fuels just have even more additives. (Cleaning power, cetane etc) |
Nov 14th, 2018, 06:51 | #19 | |
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And can every petrol car make use of an increased octane rating? Does every car need the alleged 'cleaning' additives? Fuel is energy, but additives obviously displace fuel; so why aren't we worried about this?
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Nov 14th, 2018, 08:02 | #20 |
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Could part of the reason for not worrying be that at the rate for instance Millers is added, 50ml to 50ltrs, ie 1:1000, it doesn’t displace much?
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