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Petrol quality
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08/01/2020 12:40
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bayliss
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Noted the coupe should be run on 95 ron petrol or above that grade. I like to run mine on Shell or BP brand, my question is there any value or point in filling up with their highest grade fuel at the extra cost or stick with the regular and save the money ?
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Re: Petrol quality
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08/01/2020 13:15
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neil_r
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The quality of fuels in Europe is pretty well regulated. Car manufacturers test their cars on standard fuels. Most engines can run on slightly lower octane fuels but very few can make anything of a grade higher than they are set for. A huge proportion of people buy unbranded fuels from supermarkets which are supplied from the same nearest refinery as the branded fuel station down the road without problems. The only difference is the few drops of additives that each brand claims stops your engines from self-destructing.
There have been objective test done and none have conclusively shown any statistically relevant difference between fuels or putting high octane fuels in cars that are not set up to make use of them.
I have mainly used the the same supermarket petrol station for the last 20+ years and have two old cars that run very well, just like the newer cars. I don't notice any difference when I use Shell or any other known-brand fuel. For me, I only buy branded fuel when it is cheap or when there is no easy alternative. I get no benefit from the more expensive product.
Decent beer here is around 1€ max. a bottle but it is usually fairly boring. I'll happily pay 3 times that for a good bottle of IPA and there I can tell the difference. Same with wine - life is too short to drink rubbish but standard European fuels don't reduce the life of my engines by any degree I can appreciate, so I am happy to use it.
Last edited by neil_r; 08/01/2020 13:34.
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Re: Petrol quality
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08/01/2020 14:13
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DaveG
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Like neil_r said, it all comes from the same place. I work in the industry and there's no such thing as am ASDA (or Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsburys,...) oil refinery...
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Re: Petrol quality
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08/01/2020 14:29
08/01/2020 14:29
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clanger
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Regards 95 vs 98, I run a full range of garden machinery both 2 stroke and 4 stroke all on carbs and on the occasion I have used 98 (because its all I had in the gerry can at the time, fuel strikes etc.) I feel an immediate improvement in the way the machine runs; chainsaws pick up faster rev out cleanly and run smoother, mowers just run better all round with more power when cutting long grass.
We have an old 1995 Fiat Panda that runs so much smoother on 98, my wife recognises the difference and thats saying something.
I too only use supermarket fuels.
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Re: Petrol quality
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#1638030
08/01/2020 16:56
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bayliss
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Interesting replies, thanks guys. Sounds like I may as well not concern. shelf over which brand of fuel, just fill up on price choice. As a side issue many years ago it was said that the fuel brand JET, which was always cheaper than the big names, was akin to pee water!
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Re: Petrol quality
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08/01/2020 17:26
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... JET, which was always cheaper than the big names, was akin to pee water! Interesting thought! https://www.jetlocal.co.uk/jet-fuels/Reading between the lines, their own fuels are lower in ethanol than those they sourced from other refineries. Maybe their pee water is now actually better than the competition's
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Re: Petrol quality
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08/01/2020 17:26
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DaveG
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Interesting comments about the garden machinery, I don't think they have ECUs do they? As for making more power, the energy content of petrol and diesel is strangely enough not a specification, but there's a misconception that higher octane = more power = a better fuel in many ways, whereas the only way it is better is in the knock-resistance (the definition of octane), so that it can be used in higher compression engines or the timing adjusted so that the engine could in fact produce more power (if the ECU is able to do so).
As for Jet, that was Conoco's brand for a while, and I worked for a short while at the Conoco Humber refinery, often filling up on the way home at the Jet petrol station on the corner near the entrance. I know that their petrol was different from most other refineries in the UK since it contained several components that were derived from the coker units, and being highly aromatic, would likely have produced a different, perhaps more strongly smelling petrol?
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Re: Petrol quality
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#1638036
08/01/2020 20:46
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A long time ago I used to navigate Shell tankers around the world.
We would load a cargo of, say , Mogas 95 (motor spirit) in Shell's refinery in Curacao and discharge the same into Shell, Esso, BP or Mobil tanks depending on who had bought the cargo. The buyer would add their own particular blend of additives suitable for its local market before it got to the consumer.
Cargo was frequently resold during the voyage resulting in the vessel diverting once or more from the original destination.
A frequent destination was LEFO : Lands End for orders if we were going towards northern Europe, but even that didn't mean that we would actually discharge there.
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08/01/2020 21:58
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I am forced to change from 95 to 98, this year in The Netherlands the 95 changed to E10. I read somewhere in this forum people are examining changes needed to be able to drive with E10, looking forward to the conclusions. And I have worked at a refinery of Shell for two years … . But in IT, so I have no knowledge of patrol at all.
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#1638043
08/01/2020 23:53
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bayliss
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For clarity, my comment regarding JET branded fuel, I’m going back to the late 1960’s early 70’s when the perception of JET means pee water!!
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Re: Petrol quality
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09/01/2020 13:21
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Regards 95 vs 98, I run a full range of garden machinery both 2 stroke and 4 stroke all on carbs and on the occasion I have used 98 (because its all I had in the gerry can at the time, fuel strikes etc.) I feel an immediate improvement in the way the machine runs; chainsaws pick up faster rev out cleanly and run smoother, mowers just run better all round with more power when cutting long grass.
We have an old 1995 Fiat Panda that runs so much smoother on 98, my wife recognises the difference and thats saying something.
I too only use supermarket fuels. Lol - guilty of having done this too re garden machinery on Super Unleaded. As this is what goes in the Coupe and is in the Jerry cans, I too notice the improvement when using Super. Regards MM
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09/01/2020 14:22
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KevinW
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I used to be a loudspeaker designer and there is a host of issue associated with 'the name makes it sound better' 'I can hear a difference'. As soon as you do a double blind trial - i.e. somebody puts in the petrol and someone else tries to guess which type you will probably find the differences disappear statistically !
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Re: Petrol quality
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#1638158
13/01/2020 16:50
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bayliss
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Does the ethanol content now added to petrol have any consequences for our coupes?
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Re: Petrol quality
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#1638163
13/01/2020 18:41
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Does the ethanol content now added to petrol have any consequences for our coupes? I think it does, was told we'd all need new fuel pumps as the ethanol will kill the old ones. I've always thought super made all my car's feel better, which is why I think it's a placebo. But flea specifically asked about what petrol I used, so there must be something in it.
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