Tesco and Fuel

[chadded]

Don't buy at Tesco.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6405051.stm

My pocket rocket has been juddering and for weeks, and now I've noticed the headlights dim slightly when I do the windows up. It doesn't take a rocket scientist (great pun) to work it out.

I've done 6000 odd miles in the baby since October, and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've not filled her up at Colchester or Southend Tesco, and one finger the amount of times I've not filled her up at Tesco at all. :mad:

Matt the Shrimp, I want to sue Mr Tesco for all he has. Yes, everything. If you fancy the case, it's yours, but only on a 'No win, No fee' basis!

 

[dloman]

Supermarket fuel does tend to be lower grade along with some fuel stations.

As i understand it, fuel is auctioned with the supermarkets bidding less hence the lower prices but unfortunately this means they tend to receive the bottom of the barrell so to speak.

 

[class]

I filled mine up in Tesco's today, and like you, always have done.

Wasnt too pleased when I heard the news about dodgy fuel!

:guns:

:flamer:

 

[Maldon Blues]

My headlights have always dimmed when i do the windows up, know idea why that is!

However I never have, and never will, use Supermarket Petrol. i have always heard it comes from the cheapest possible source.

It also seems the bulk of the problem has been in Maldon!

Don't buy at Tesco.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6405051.stm

My pocket rocket has been juddering and for weeks, and now I've noticed the headlights dim slightly when I do the windows up. It doesn't take a rocket scientist (great pun) to work it out.

I've done 6000 odd miles in the baby since October, and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've not filled her up at Colchester or Southend Tesco, and one finger the amount of times I've not filled her up at Tesco at all. :mad:

Matt the Shrimp, I want to sue Mr Tesco for all he has. Yes, everything. If you fancy the case, it's yours, but only on a 'No win, No fee' basis!

 

[MrB]

I've been warned by a couple of people who work in the industry not to trust supermarket fuel, all this 'it's all the same' talk is bollocks.

Only Shell Optimax (or whatever it's called now) touches my car (when it starts).

 

[chadded]

I've been warned by a couple of people who work in the industry not to trust supermarket fuel, all this 'it's all the same' talk is bollocks.

Only Shell Optimax (or whatever it's called now) touches my car (when it starts).

Well my boycott of Tesco, not just fuel, has already started.

I've also heard about the 'supermarket fuel not being all that' just never really bought it. Until now. Cunch of bunts. No-one hurts my baby. Tesco beware!!

 

[steveo]

But Tesco do a 99ron super unleaded but my local Esso garage only have a 95ron version. Car definitely goes better with higher octane.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

If you fancy the case, it's yours, but only on a 'No win, No fee' basis!

Nah. I'm busy enough with my paid work, old boy!!

:p

 

[chadded]

Nah. I'm busy enough with my paid work, old boy!!

:p

It's almost like you're not confident you'd win! :D

 

[Mad Cyril]

I've been warned by a couple of people who work in the industry not to trust supermarket fuel, all this 'it's all the same' talk is bollocks.

Only Shell Optimax (or whatever it's called now) touches my car (when it starts).

I was warned by the guy at Comet not to touch a £200 Indesit tumble dryer and go for a £400 Bosch model.

Aren't we are lucky that there are so many helpful people out there.

 

[MrB]

I was warned by the guy at Comet not to touch a £200 Indesit tumble dryer and go for a £400 Bosch model.

Aren't ee are lucky that there are so many helpful people out there.

If he'd done his job properly you'd have picked up the £600 one that fragrances your room while it spins.

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

But what about supermarket LPG? Is that not such a high grade of gas??

 

[Mad Cyril]

But what about supermarket LPG? Is that not such a high grade of gas??

It's a well observed phenomenon that only elderly people cannot tell the difference between supermarket own brand goods and the premium products they mimic. I think it may be something to do with the ageing process. There is a Ph.D. worth of research there for somebody I am sure.

Having entered my mid thirties I occasionally find myself putting these products into my trolley yet when I was in my twenties I wouldn't have dreamed of doing so.

I wonder if I will find myself in a few years time trying to persuade a screaming five year old that 'Krisp Rice cereal is made by the same people who make Rice krispies' or wandering around town in a pair of 'Nicks' trainers............

 

[Mad Cyril]

Don't buy at Tesco.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6405051.stm

My pocket rocket has been juddering and for weeks, and now I've noticed the headlights dim slightly when I do the windows up. It doesn't take a rocket scientist (great pun) to work it out.

I've done 6000 odd miles in the baby since October, and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've not filled her up at Colchester or Southend Tesco, and one finger the amount of times I've not filled her up at Tesco at all. :mad:

Matt the Shrimp, I want to sue Mr Tesco for all he has. Yes, everything. If you fancy the case, it's yours, but only on a 'No win, No fee' basis!

I bought a C reg Datsun Cherry for £75 after answering an advert in the Yellow advertiser and on the way home I filled it up with fuel from a petrol station owned by a certain large supermarket.....

Over the next two weeks the exhaust fell off and the clutch went.

 

[Cricko2]

I bought a C reg Datsun Cherry for £75 after answering an advert in the Yellow advertiser and on the way home I filled it up with fuel from a petrol station owned by a certain large supermarket.....

Over the next two weeks the exhaust fell off and the clutch went.

Lol Good example....Have you a chance of getting your money back ?:D

 

[Bob Cratchitt]

It's a well observed phenomenon that only elderly people cannot tell the difference between supermarket own brand goods and the premium products they mimic. I think it may be something to do with the ageing process. There is a Ph.D. worth of research there for somebody I am sure.

I guess I am alright as I only buy my victuals and fuel from Waitrose, surely their own brands are of a higher quality.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

But what about supermarket LPG? Is that not such a high grade of gas??

Are you another LPG-ite, Andee? Isn't Sainsbury the only supermarket that provides LPG? If so, the contaminated fuel has only affected Tesco and Morrison's anyway, hasn't it...?

:confused:

Can't say I've ever noticed much of a difference in LPG standards, other than the fact that BP tend to store theirs colder / at higher pressure than most of their rivals, which means that you can fit more in your tank when you fill up...

:)

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

It's almost like you're not confident you'd win! :D

With you as my main witness of fact...?! Ya don't say...
:fart:

 

[Stats]

Why are you blagging on about fuel MTS when your main node of transport is the below?

Or do you feed your horses LPG then?

Surely thats not on!! ;)

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Why are you blagging on about fuel MTS when your main node of transport is the below?

:finger:

As if I'd go to the expense of horses, when a skivvy from Colchester is much cheaper:

:fart: