Shell FuelSave

[254575]

looks like shell have been tinkering with their fuel additives again.

 

any likely implications on our shite?

 

Shell FuelSave Unleaded is a new and efficient Shell fuel created to help save you up to 1 litre per tank* at no extra cost – so whether you’re on a hectic school run, family taxi duty or just popping to the shops, that’s one less thing to think about.

 

From the moment you fill your car with Shell FuelSave Unleaded, you could start to benefit from the new fuel economy formula. That’s because it’s enriched with Shell Efficiency Improver, designed to improve fuel economy from the very first drop.

How does Shell Efficiency Improver work?

 

It lubricates where your normal engine oils can't easily reach, which helps the engine turn more freely and allows more energy to drive the wheels. This helps you get more out of every drop of Shell FuelSave Unleaded and saves you up to 1 litre per tank* at no extra cost.

 

Getting to this stage was a welcome challenge for our scientists, who relentlessly tested the fuel in their lab as well as on the road so that each time you fill up, you save.

 

So, save up to 1 litre per tank* with Shell FuelSave Unleaded – head to your nearest Shell station today.

 

*Based on a minimum tank size and fill up of 50 litres. Comparison between a standard gasoline and that same standard gasoline containing our instantaneous fuel economy formula. Actual savings may vary according to vehicle, driving conditions and driving style.

 

http://www.shell.co.uk/home/content/gbr ... /unleaded/

[pogweasel]

Guaranteed it will cost 2p a litre more, thus any 'savings' are likely to be a negative amount.

[Rocket88]

Watch out for new "Shell Snake Oil".......0/0 fully synthetic bull shit lubricant, coming to a P.R company near you...........

[retrogeezer]

I heard something on the radio this morning that Ford were running a scheme that could save you a gallon of fuel from a tank or something...didn't quite catch all the info unfortunately.

[FredTransit]

Hmmm, that's right up there with the 'science bit' on anti wrinkle cream ads......

[Alpineandy]

25 years back (maybe a little more.....) the 'New' shell fuels of the day promised a cleaner engine. Didn't work on my R8, just caused a mis-fire........

[autofive]

Hmmm, that's right up there with the 'science bit' on anti wrinkle cream ads......

i read somewhere that if anti wrinkle creams etc actually worked - they would be prescription only

 

most of 'em are just make-up

[Station]

All the scientific names the make up ads use are trademarks of the company, not scientific/medical terms.

 

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life ... 076047.ece

[Richard]

When I started using Shell diesel instead of supermarket shit I got an extra 100-150 miles per tank.

[Chris_W_Q4]

I bought some FuelSave diesel tonight and they gave me a FREE air freshener!! Woo Hoo!!

 

I shouldn't have got too excited..

Craked it open and discovered it smells f*cking horrible.

 

It said "Lemon Sorbet"... FOUL.

[Alpineandy]

I bought some FuelSave diesel tonight

Did you save fuel?

[jonny69]

What a load of bollocks. Bastards ought to be strung up and shagged by Paddy Ashdown for lying.

[nigel bickle]

I'vebeen running mySimca 1100 van gently -too loosen it up a 28 year slumber.

 

Over the 4 hours its been ticking over -on new juice- the plastic fuellines have imploded and totally collapsed.

4 repairs so far -now going to replace the lot.

 

Old lines looked perfectly serviceable-kinda makes you think..

[CreepingJesus]

Dunno about this FuelSave malarkey, I use Shell anyway, due to the Shell stations here being a penny or two cheaper than most.

While they may be able to prove something under test conditions, whether in the lab, or at Bruntingthorpe; real life isn't like that. Even identical routes, day after day, won't work out to be the same journey. Too many variables.

So their claims, quite honestly, are Bad Science! I wouldn't change to it, because of a claim of superiority.

All I know is this; 1)Mrs CJ's Renner's a sight more economical than my Mondy, so that's fine; and 2)the previous Ferrari tie-up failed to turn me into Herr Schumacher (I'm quite ugly enough, ta; and I've no compulsion to run people into motorway barriers...).

Oh, and the 'air freshener' lives unopened in the door pocket, 'cos Mrs CJ has a mortal dread of air fresheners! Is it really that bad?

[cms206]

Haven't tried the FuelSave shecht yet, I run both the Focus and the Cavalier exclusively on Shell Optimax or whatever it's called now. Focus never liked the 95RON stuff, the Cavalier doesn't seem to mind either or, but it seems to idle happier on the good stuff...

[Richard]

It depends what you're comparing it with. Compared with the watered down short measures you get in a supermarket the saving is probably closer to 10 litres per tank if you switch to Shell.

[whitevanman]

It depends what you're comparing it with. Compared with the watered down short measures you get in a supermarket the saving is probably closer to 10 litres per tank if you switch to Shell.

I've never heard that they sell short messures by watered down do you mean a lower Ron ?

[Albert Ross]

Re: Simca fuel line implosion shocker.

 

Yugo had a recall to retrofit all fuel lines with unleaded safe stuff in about 1989....... Do you think this might be a similar issue?

[pogweasel]

5p a litre more for fuel save shell than texaco/bp/applegreen round here now...

[Mr Lobster]

I've never heard that they sell short messures by watered down do you mean a lower Ron ?

Not short measures just that supermarket fuel isn't as good quality as normal branded stuff. I was once told by an AA man that they get a few call outs because of poorer qualty fuel and its always supermarkets.

[dollywobbler]

Thought all the fuel came from the same place at the end of the day? Tesco fuel did start killing modern stuff a while back, due to silicon or something. I've never, ever had an issue using supermarket fuel.

 

Nigel - that Yugo thing is about right. 2CVs started suffering from fuel hose issues with the switch to unleaded, so I doubt it's this new fancy stuff.

[cms206]

5p a litre more for fuel save shell than texaco/bp/applegreen round here now...

Thats bizarre, it's actually CHEAPER here! 112.9/litre for petrol, 114.9 for diesel... just back from fuelled super Sherpa works van contraption.

[Guest]

I can't really think of a time that I've bought petrol at a supermarket, the queues/hopeless-looking people put me off. I tend to go to the most ramshackle place I can find as they tend to have the best pie/pop selection.

[Pillock]

There's only one filling station here that's not attached to either a supermarket or Londis-style minisupermarket. And that's the first one you hit as you come off the M1 so always 3-4p/litre more.

 

Plus, they cloned my debit card a few years back so I've only been there once since, and paid with cash.

[dollywobbler]

I can't really think of a time that I've bought petrol at a supermarket, the queues/hopeless-looking people put me off. I tend to go to the most ramshackle place I can find as they tend to have the best pie/pop selection.

Went to a ramshackle place this morning. Expensive and the 2CV pinked like a bugger.

 

Then went to another ramshackle place in Suffolk. Few pies but they did have a big stock of sex DVDs and lots of old LPs. Odd.

[Polystratus]

Thought all the fuel came from the same place at the end of the day? Tesco fuel did start killing modern stuff a while back, due to silicon or something. I've never, ever had an issue using supermarket fuel.

 

Nigel - that Yugo thing is about right. 2CVs started suffering from fuel hose issues with the switch to unleaded, so I doubt it's this new fancy stuff.

It was silicon which coated the oxygen sensor, so if you had a older car without one it was not affected at all, seem to remember when Shell started putting in super more mpg/mph additive stuff it caused engine damage in certain cars.

[M'coli]

The collapsing fuel lines on Yugos make sense - I did an analysis of 4* versus unleaded for my SYS chemistry project back in 1989. I found that there was a big difference in the amount of aromatic hydrocarbons - toluene and xylene, although the equipment wasn't sensitive enough to discern between them in a mixture - in the unleaded compared to the 4*; toluene and xylene are excellent solvents so will either strip the plasticiser from the fuel lines or make them so soft that they'll collapse under their own weight.

[Richard]

I've never heard that they sell short messures by watered down do you mean a lower Ron ?

Supermarkets even find ways to water down meat, so it stands to reason that they would dilute their fuel.

 

My original reason for not using supermarket fuel was the same as Hirst's, supermarket forecourts are always full of the world's thickest cunts, but I soon discovered my car was going faster and further. In fact the fuel saving was around 25%- not least because I didn't have to sit for hours on end with the engine idling waiting for some fuckwit to work out how to remove their fuel cap.

 

Around here Shell fuel is much cheaper than Tesco. When people think you're cheaper there's no real need to actually be cheaper.

[Pete-M]

If supermarkets sold watered down fuel they'd get hung, drawn and quartered for it, and they'd be properly in trouble if they sold short measures.

 

I've used fuel from Sainsbury's (it's near me, and cheap) for the last 10-15 years in pretty much everything I've owned and never had a single problem with fuel quality from there, same with Tescos fuel. It's all right. There's bugger all up with it other than the shop issues Hirst mentions.

 

I run the SD1 on fuel from wherever, but Sainsbury's super unleaded seems to suit it really well. It runs better on that than on BP stuff.

 

I really don't get the whole thing about supermarket fuel being crap. It obviously isn't.

[nigel bickle]

The fuel lines on the Simca- clearly original & still in all its original clips-looks more like windscreen washer pipe!

Clear, unreinforced plastic -thats just sucked in on itself-and melted.

 

Anyway-its all replaced with the modern blue plastic stuff-so thats sorted.

 

Only for the front flexi pipes have now decided to fail-after extensive checking. And the Ebay replacements bought ''just in case'' - wrong fittings,tooshort. Typical..