Yeah, I've used Tesco 99 from day one...13 months ago.

No Shell stations around here but I'm very happy with the Tesco juice.

I've got an average of 40+ MPG (Maxidot...which I believe is rather optimistic) over the past 13 months so it may well be good stuff for MPG too.

I get about 35 more miles per £40 worth of fuel if i use shell v-power. I get about 180miles from it

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Is that 'Petrol & V-Power Nitro.?

 

so £40 = 6 gallons about,

if you pay £1.44 a litre and get 27.7 litres , so getting 180 miles from that is only getting 30 mpg.  

 

So you pay about £2.70 more for the V-Power than 95 Ron fuel

& £1.35 more than for than the Momentum would cost.

Sainsbury Super Unleaded might buy you 1 litre more than the V-power.  

 

So basically hardly worth going out your way from filling up at the Shell station.

 

Which is the other Fuel you have tried that would cost you £40 and you would only get 145 miles from it, so only 24 MPG?

 ie 35 miles less than the 180 miles you get on £40 worth of V-Power.

 

george

George, i get say 35mpg spirited driving on 99 ron from tesco at £1.40 / litre, and around 33 with 95 ron at 1.35 a litre. Thats about £2.50 extra to fill my tank for around a fiver saving in usage.

Man maths overcomes lots of similar "issues" :-)

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Thats what most of us get. 2-3 mpg extra so why we use 99 ron in the cars that benefit from it.

It pays for its self.

Here £1.37.9 per litre just now for Momentum.

(By paying another extra £2.50 again per tank for the Shell V Power over the Momentum, that does not usually then get you a further 2-3 extra MPG)

& When running 102 RON, the performance improvement can be there in a suitable car, but its seldom a further MPG improvement again.

 

So i was asking about the  6 mpg or so better and 30 mpg instead of 24 mpg that seemed to be the figure given in #27

 

'Man Maths' says you and me put in 50 litres & it costs us £70 rather than 95 ron, @ £67.50, and for the £2.50 we get about 35 miles extra from a tank maybe more.

I know that if i pay £72.50 at the Shell garage for their fuel, i will not get another extra 35 miles from the tank full.

ie Pay £5 more but gain 70 miles per tank.

I also know the car runs rubbish when driving Spririted & on 95 RON, tho.

 

george

I also know the car runs rubbish when driving Spririted & on 95 RON, tho.

george

Nail head.

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Thats what most of us get. 2-3 mpg extra so why we use 99 ron in the cars that benefit from it.

It pays for its self.

Here £1.37.9 per litre just now for Momentum.

(By paying another extra £2.50 again per tank for the Shell V Power over the Momentum, that does not usually then get you a further 2-3 extra MPG)

& When running 102 RON, the performance improvement can be there in a suitable car, but its seldom a further MPG improvement again.

 

So i was asking about the  6 mpg or so better and 30 mpg instead of 24 mpg that seemed to be the figure given in #27

 

'Man Maths' says you and me put in 50 litres & it costs us £70 rather than 95 ron, @ £67.50, and for the £2.50 we get about 35 miles extra from a tank maybe more.

I know that if i pay £72.50 at the Shell garage for their fuel, i will not get another extra 35 miles from the tank full.

ie Pay £5 more but gain 70 miles per tank.

I also know the car runs rubbish when driving Spririted & on 95 RON, tho.

 

george

 

If I am forced to buy the low grade stuff from non-Momentum, V-Power sites, but tend to only put half a tank in if I have to, the top end of the rev range feels rough as the anti-knock sensor intervenes and retards the ignition.   Also seems to take one or two refills of the proper octane stuff in the Fabia VRS to clear it out.

 

I would be interested to know how much fuel is actually still in the system when it is down to 0 miles on the computer range, I suspect a good 5 litres or so.

 

With this below zero miles on the computer in the fuel system and what you can extra stuff using the venting I would not be surprised if you took a Fabia VRS after topping it using the venting method and bled the whole system you would end up with about 55 litres of fuel hence the difficulty to recharge with proper 98 or more Octane of fuel.  Conversely the 1.8 TSI I traded in for the Fabia VRS could run on 91 Octane and was quickish on 95 Octane so could use the cheap ASDA stuff.

Most i have got in the vRS when showing 40 miles range and that was when showing 47.7 average before stopping,

was 54 litres & without Venting.

(EDIT, correction, over 55 mpg average before stopping & showing 50 miles range, before fuelling.. took 54 litres.

but needle not even onto the red or light on.)

 

it loves 100-102 RON in Europe,

(Also Winter time Delivered Tesco Momentum after 15th Oct & its Minimum 99 ron.)

&

on special days here gets some of this, 'Hiperflo 250'

http://www.vitalequipment.co.uk/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=165

i run the tank near empty then put in.

only 5 miles or so and the difference is obvious, 30 miles covered and its very obvious.

But mapped to suit & take full advantage.

(cheaper than going for a round of golf or watch a footerball match.)

 

george