You can download Shell App for iphone, possibly your Android phone as well. This usually gives regular offers of 100 bonus points for min 10 litres fill up using Shell Drivers Club card.

So you can actually fill up your car without putting a dent in your wallet. By the way I don't get any commission not do I work for Shell. Just brotherly love

Thanks.

You can download Shell App for iphone, possibly your Android phone as well. This usually gives regular offers of 100 bonus points for min 10 litres fill up using Shell Drivers Club card.

So you can actually fill up your car without putting a dent in your wallet. By the way I don't get any commission not do I work for Shell. Just brotherly love

Thanks.

If I'm correct in saying 100 points is worth 50p then it still costs. Vpower is 6p a litre dearer where I am. Vrs takes 55l to fill therefore costing an extra £3.30 and from that you get 50p of points back?

Have to agree I've also tried the "better" fuels in various cars and motorbikes and never noticed a difference. Very hard to say you get better economy as there as many variables that can change - weather, traffic, etc.

When I had my Mondeo ST TDCI, I tried various fuels......but generally mostly settled on Asda diesel as it was the cheapest round these parts. I did get Morrison's diesel a couple of times, and the car seemed run marginally better on it.....but never checked performance times, and the mpg wa spretty much the same regardless. I did try the premium diesels as well a few times, mostly Shell V Power......and again while the car seeemd to run better on it, no objective difference could be found.

 

Chiming in now as a (petrol) VRS owner....can't comment on how an Octy VRS perfroms on diesel, but I have found Asda petrol is not something my car likes at all, and spend the extra money on Shell fuel save petrol - which gets me better mpgs than the Asda stuff.....and although it costs more (couple fo pence per litre), the higher mpg offsets that so I'm a few quid better off. Tried the V Power or Nitro+ petrol as it is now, and again it feels like the car runs that bit better....but I've found nothing objectively to say it actually is better and mpgs stay about the same!

I notice a difference with the V-power stuff, more response than economy. but then again the refinery down this way has stopped producing fuelsave!! so i probably would notice an mpg hike now.

...even tried 5-6 tankful's in a row, resetting the adaption in the ECU, everything... no difference.

 

FWIW I think it would have been a much better test if you had NOT reset the ECU between refills. This will return to ECU to whatever the factory timing was, and may have prevented the optimal adjustment to the higher cetane rated fuel being achieved.

Edited 15 January, 201412 yr by Ultrasonic

 but then again the refinery down this way has stopped producing fuelsave!!

 

What do you mean? Surely Shell don't sell anything other than Fuelsave or V-Power Nitro+?

Edited 15 January, 201412 yr by Ultrasonic

Remembering the dishwater liquid they use over there (85 ron)... How did they manage to produce the same HP with 85 ron as with 95 ron?

 

 

Because in the US regular petrol has an Octane of 87 AKI (not RON...it's measured differently over there). This is broadly equivalent to 92 RON. So the gap in octane isn't as big as you might think.

 

85 AKI fuel is not widely available in the US except at high altitudes, where engines typically run better on lower octane fuel,......it's quite common in Colorado for instance.   

What do you mean? Surely Shell don't sell anything other than Fuelsave or V-Power Nitro+?

Nope just "regular" diesel. Have to get it from a different refinery who cant produce enough fuelsave for both areas apparently (talking to the staff at the local station). So its the same price but not as economical. You must just be on the border of it, as its suffolk/norfolk with no fuelsave.

Nope just "regular" diesel. Have to get it from a different refinery who cant produce enough fuelsave for both areas apparently (talking to the staff at the local station). So its the same price but not as economical. You must just be on the border of it, as its suffolk/norfolk with no fuelsave.

 

Interesting. I didn't think refineries did anything different to produce Fuelsave diesel, merely using an appropriate set of additives (primarily a cetane booser I assume). Perhaps there is more to it.

 

I use BP fuel but I drive past a Shell garage on the way home so may have a glance across to see what fuel they are selling tomorrow.

I think they've simply dropped the fuel save branding.

Would cost me £63/year more than standard diesel fuel!

Spending £10k/£15k/£20k or so on a nicely specified car with potentially spirited performance and fuel costs of say £1500-£2500 per year, I'd not worry too much about an £80 fuel saving. £800 yes, but in the context of the overall outlay £80 is a tiny %.

 

If premium fuel clags up the fuel system less and is kinder to fuel pumps/injectors, that potentially saves thousands in parts & labour. Well worth the extra IMHO.

 

Bit like worrying about small savings on road tax really, saving £50/year say over a 5 year period of ownership is £250, when depreciation amounts to thousands. If you're paying £450 a year though for some gas guzzling bloated 4x4 barge, then sure a Citigo looks good at £30/year and you'd save over £2k, but how many BMW X6 owners would swap to a Citigo to pay less road tax..........

 

All things are relative, and context matters !

I think they've simply dropped the fuel save branding.

Seems unlikely to me. Why would they do so without launching some sort of replacement? Dropping the name while not changing the fuel would make existing customers think they are getting an inferior product which clearly wouldn't be commercially smart!

The Fuel Save brand is still on Shell's website.

May I take the liberty of respectfully drawing readers' attention to this helpful and informative thread:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/295303-cheap-supermarket-air/page-1?hl= cheap  air

Yes you are right, but then the offer is weekly or bimonthly so if you can take the trouble of visiting the Shell court for more than once then even that difference in price is roughly offset.

Anyway the point I'm trying to make is that it is possible to use V-Power without losing too much money.

Cheers

Yes you are right, but then the offer is weekly or bimonthly so if you can take the trouble of visiting the Shell court for more than once then even that difference in price is roughly offset.Anyway the point I'm trying to make is that it is possible to use V-Power without losing too much money.Cheers

Edited 16 January, 201412 yr by lordmehdihassan

Yes you are right, but then the offer is weekly or bimonthly so if you can take the trouble of visiting the Shell court for more than once then even that difference in price is roughly offset.

Anyway the point I'm trying to make is that it is possible to use V-Power without losing too much money.

Cheers

Sorry for duplicate post.

May I take the liberty of respectfully drawing readers' attention to this helpful and informative thread:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/295303-cheap-supermarket-air/page-1?hl= cheap  air

 

May I take the liberty of respectfully drawing your attention to the video in post 5?

 

(Unlike the air example, we are talking about fuels with measurably different chemical properties (cetane rating in particular), and which the test I referred to above shows can have a measurable effect on performance. How significant the difference is can of course be debated. The subject of cleaning claims is frustratingly harder to test and therefore find evidence for.)

Edited 16 January, 201412 yr by Ultrasonic