Is Morrisons pez made from old lucozade and piss?

[mrcitroen]

My BX runs well on Tesco's Momentum stuff, but shit on regular. The Alfa runs really bad on supermarket stuff. Loads of juddering, flat spots & DPF regens almost as twice as often. OK on Shell/ BP/ Esso. I'm not a fuel snob, can't afford to be with these mentaloriental prices, but if the car don't run right..........

[ashmicro]

We used to see Joey Dunlop down at Newtownards Flying Club to pick up aviation fuel for his bikes. They ran very well!

[autofive]

Joey?

 

are you sure it wasnt another dunlop brother?

[ashmicro]

I'm fairly sure it was Joey, mate, but I guess it could have been Robert - it was a LONG time ago, and I'm old.

[Andrew353w]

I've almost exclusively used Sainsbury's petrol & almost always fill up at their Dome site, in north Watford, which is rumoured to sell the cheapest fuel in the UK (I'm not claiming this to be true, but I HAVE read it on fuel price sites) I've used loads of cars on their ordinary unleaded & never had a problem; my Skoda Fun, Daf 33, Wartburg Knight, Lada 1500 and my current Citroen Xantia 2 litre auto all seemed (seem) to drink it quite happily (The Wartburg DID get 2 stroke oil mixed with his, which must have lowered the octane rating a little)

 

I religiously monitor my MPG (SHMBO hates this!) and regularly obtain 36+ mpg from the Citroen, which is pretty good for a 2 litre auto with 135K on the clock!

 

On the subject of Jet garages, I used to work at one! Bideford Motors in (obviously!) Bideford, where my mechanical job started... (34 years ago..) By the way, 4 star was £1.18 a GALLON when I started working there, the pumps displays were clockwork and it was an "attended service" garage, open from 7am-10pm 7 days a week & we cashed cheques for customers! The tankers came up from Plymouth, where the distribution point was for all the local fuel companies, regardless of the brand.

[Bobthebeard]

Dug out my childhood chemistry kit and took it round to Morrisons to prove this once and for all....

Yes!

49.33% Lucozade

15.775% Piss

Sundry additives to 97% plus stale cake to 100%

[Disco Fever]

Dug out my childhood chemistry kit and took it round to Morrisons to prove this once and for all....

Yes!

49.33% Lucozade

15.775% Piss

Sundry additives to 97% plus stale cake to 100%

 

And that was the 98RON

 

I was quite willing to buy into the 'it's all the same' / 'BSI compliant' position until the Tesco fiasco in 2007 when there was too much silicone in their fuel and it was seizing engines. It does appear that they're happy packing it out with additives to save a couple of pence at the pump. That said, as long as Tesco are throwing me 5p off a litre, I'll keep filling up there. It's an expensive game.

[Parky]

It depends on the car IMHO.

 

In the past I found the following:

 

Peugeot 106 - smooth as silk on super unleaded, ran like a dog on regular

Honda Civic - owned in NZ, always used their 95 Ron fuel as their regular is 91 and the jap spec engine didn't like 91 at all

Corolla executive - ran on anything

Renault 5 - ditto

Kia Picanto - ran ok on both types but got 30 miles more range on super unleaded

Seat Leon 2 - no difference on either

Bini - idles better on super, but no other performance or economy difference

 

Ultimately it's like supermarket vodka vs branded vodka. Kind of the same thing, but not quite....

[Micrashed]

Im afraid I run with whatever happens to be either

a) cheapest

Have this weeks x number of pence off a litre for buying jam rags or whatever

c) nearest when the little red lamp comes on

 

Invariably its Morrisons on the way home from work. The Micra runs a treat on it.

[Chip]

I've just thought - in 14 years of driving, I've only ever bought fuel at the same Tesco petrol station, apart from a dozen or so times when out and about elsewhere.

 

Having said that, I had to defile 5L of super unleaded with 2 stroke oil the other week, as only those pumps were working!

[Cavcraft]

Im afraid I run with whatever happens to be either

a) cheapest

Have this weeks x number of pence off a litre for buying jam rags or whatever

c) nearest when the little red lamp comes on

 

Invariably its Morrisons on the way home from work. The Micra runs a treat on it.

 

+1.

 

Except I know who's always cheapest, but they don't always have my brand of fuel in

[In The Pit]

I don't use supermarket petrol anymore, I saw on TV (i think the news) that supermarkets put less of something in their petrol than branded petrol. Also I was told about a car that needed to go into a garage to be fixed cant remember the full in's and out's of what was wrong with the car but the main part was that a mechanic stripped the engine down and then said to the owner you've been running this solely on supermarket petrol haven’t you (which he had) and the mechanic said thats what had caused the problem.

 

On the subject of Jet petrol stations I live in West Wales and hadn't seen one for years I thought they had all gone, but a trip to East England back in the summer revealed there are still plenty out that way I was surprised, they looked very smart in their yellow and blue colours. I filled my Audi A4 diesel from there and that’s the best mpg i've achieved in it. Here in Wales I normally use Murco i'm not sure if you get that in England (anyone tell me?)I didn't notice any when I was there in the summer, a new company that alot have changed to in my area is Oil 4 Wales (but thats only available in Wales).

 

Trivia - Jet took their name from the first tanker they owned as its number plate was JET 855 this original tanker was discovered rotting in a field by a man from Oxfordshire in 1999 and has now been restored.

 

In the 1950's:

 

Rusting in a field:

 

Repairs begin:

 

Restored:

[Cavcraft]

I seem to remember a scare about Sh*ll fuel a few years back (circa 1988 I think) which was allegedly knackering engines up and remember the protests outside some of their forecourts.

 

As said earlier all fuels will be slightly different from each other, maybe the quality does vary even with the same brand occasionally if supermarket fuel.

[Richard]

That was Formula Shell. I can't remember what claims they made about it but I think it made engines run hotter, which pushed some Vauxhall engines over the edge.

 

I suspect that a large part of the fuel saving I got when I stopped using supermarket fuel can be attributed to my not being in a foul mood and ragging the car after I'd filled up. Supermarkets really are fud magnets.

[barefoot]

Further to my last post on this re. Ultimate fuel gives ever increasing economy from injected 16v Porsche.

My third tankful into the 8v carburettor relatively low compression Scirocco has seen the fuel economy plummet further.

Still, it was designed for 2 star **

 

Arse biscuits - since I'm led to believe that this stuff will be the only fuel with 5% ethanol soon.