Which fuel does your car run best on?

1. user_39965 Established Member Joined: Dec 2009 Cambridge Posts: 1246 Blue Furio

   #1 2nd February 2010, 23:36

   As title states. Sorry if this is a repost.
   
   For me it's either BP or Shell.
   
   I always find Tesco makes it run a bit stuttery at low speed
2. Mochachino Saxperience Hardcore! Joined: Nov 2007 Guantanamo Bay Posts: 28700 oyster card

   #2 2nd February 2010, 23:39

   I use shell all the time as its the closest one. I cant notice any diff tho.
3. bald24 Established Member Joined: Sep 2009 St.Neots Posts: 1443 1.1i '51

   #3 2nd February 2010, 23:41

   I find the car flying through Tesco fuel, its shite anyways. Not getting into another discussion about their fuel, theres enough of them on here.
   
   I'm using Total or Murco fuel at the moment, lasts ages! Once I get some money flow going again and not scraping together tenna's to fuel car up I'll start using BP again
4. chrisbrown2005 Infrequent Poster Joined: Mar 2009 Stone, Staffordshire Posts: 231 Ford Fiesta 1.4 Flame, 54reg

   #4 2nd February 2010, 23:53

   mine runs crap on shell, tesco and morrisons, shudders, doesent idle smoothly and its really unresponsive, its alright on total, just abit noisey but it's 1000x better on BP, much quiter and alot more responsive, and get a extra 6mpg from it , so i use BP
5. VJOFurio Frequent Poster Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 641

   #5 3rd February 2010, 00:15

   Mine feels smoother on BP Ultimate, i'm still yet to try V-Power. I get more pops and bangs from the Supersprint with premium fuel too, and better MPG.
6. JRC1 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Mar 2008 Southampton Posts: 4839 16v'd White Furio & MK5 Golf R32

   #6 3rd February 2010, 01:04

   I tend to only use Shell V-Power. Get better MPG with it tbh.
7. liam-o Established Member Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 1346

   #7 3rd February 2010, 01:06

   i use Shell always, at a push BP if im desperate
   
   on the one occasion i had to use a different place i was immensely pissed off!
   
   dont know why but its just the way it is
8. Ryanp Super Moderator Joined: Feb 2004 Tonbridge United Kingdom (England) Posts: 38236 Vtr, 172, throttle bodied track slut

   #8 3rd February 2010, 01:07

   shell Vpower.
   
   Le clio has a nice big sticker saying 98ron fuel inside the cap
9. Kev_Vtec Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Aug 2009 norfolk Posts: 3116 my drifter M3 rep :D saxo vts eh glad its gone,

   #9 3rd February 2010, 01:08

   vpower and it smells nice when you hit vtec lol
10. saxo_ron Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jun 2007 Newcastle Upon Tyne Posts: 3017 Honda DC5, Gruppe M and j's racing

    #10 3rd February 2010, 05:10

    My car cuts out and struggles to idle on bp ultimate
    
    best on vpower or tesco99
11. lharrowing Frequent Poster Joined: Nov 2008 norwich Posts: 941 Citroen Saxo Westcoast MK1

    #11 3rd February 2010, 08:06

    i loved shells optimax guess v power is all good though
12. JamesRm Forum Section Moderator Joined: Aug 2008 Liverpool Posts: 15517 Saxo VTR

    #12 3rd February 2010, 08:51

    Hates Tesco 99, loves Optimax or BP ultimate
13. user_15989 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4857

    #13 3rd February 2010, 09:32

    Depends what vehicle your talking about. The C2 GT runs just fine on any UK regular unleaded as did my 206 and 106 before that. None of them really have the capacity to truly take advantage of any more fancy fuels. I have used a few in the past just because I had the fuel to hand but it never made any differences. If anything some were not as good. However on the bike, jap import MR2 and old race cars I had it was a different matter but then these were all intended to only run on high ron fuels.
14. Aron Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Feb 2007 Nuneaton Posts: 3554 EP3 Civic

    #14 3rd February 2010, 10:11

    Have to run mine on super unleadeds and find Tesco99 just fine, was made with total so runs perfect on that. BP & Shell make no real difference apart from 1-2mpg higher.
15. benhunt22 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2009 Plymouth Posts: 263 saxo

    #15 3rd February 2010, 16:06

    mine hates tesco's it struggles in slow moving traffic and doesnt like to idle either, everything else seems fine..
16. user_38198 Established Member Joined: Oct 2009 West Mids Posts: 1847 Peugeot 106 1.1

    #16 3rd February 2010, 16:59

    Runs better on Shell. If i fill up with tesco stuff, I get less miles from it strangely.
17. Oxas16V Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2005 Frankfurt-Germany Posts: 203 Saxo VTS 1.6 16V

    #17 3rd February 2010, 17:03

    98 octan or higher, its nothing special that different fuel brands didn't give the same quailty by the same octan rate. We've got also this problem in germany, then people arguing with that all the gasstations get it from the same huge silos, and yes thats true but on the refilling of the gasstations they mixing always other additive packages or when the refill the gastruck which delivers the fuel. So it comes.
    
    Robert