niftyandy
Registered User
Hi Folks
Just wondering if anybody has found Shells new Fuelsave petrol to be the wonderfuel Shell seems to think it is?
From my point of view, driving a petrol 3.0 QS Cab, I'v noticed that there has been a reduction in performance using it, even compared to the 'old' Shell regular unleaded, which previously my car seemed to like.
I reckon Shell might be trying to increase the performance differential between the petrol for normal and performance cars and make performance car owners go for their V-Power instead, at a 9p premium (around here anyway) and fob-off normal car owners with the 'save a litre' line. Like we have a choice in the matter as it's completely replaced their old regular unleaded.
To save a litre in my car, the way I drive, my car would have to be forced to remove some performance, which seems to have been the case, in my experience anyway. After a couple of tanks of High Octane stuff again mine's back to its old self, but the disparity in performance between Shells regular and V- Power seems to have widened, ie V-Power may still be still the same but the new Fuelsave stuff seems lower. Same 95RON but with lower performance attributes.
The RON numbers are a bit misleading anyway as I'm told its how much Oxygen there is in the petrol that gives petrol it's 'punch', ie the more the better. I know Tesco do the 99RON stuff but I don't think it gives as good a punch as 97RON V- Power, and thats because Shell puts about 50% more oxygen into its petrol than Tesco.
Anybody else noticed an issue with Fuelsave?....and if you drive a 1.8 A4 and linger in the middle lane at 68.75mph all the time, then you probably haven't!
Discuss!
Just wondering if anybody has found Shells new Fuelsave petrol to be the wonderfuel Shell seems to think it is?
From my point of view, driving a petrol 3.0 QS Cab, I'v noticed that there has been a reduction in performance using it, even compared to the 'old' Shell regular unleaded, which previously my car seemed to like.
I reckon Shell might be trying to increase the performance differential between the petrol for normal and performance cars and make performance car owners go for their V-Power instead, at a 9p premium (around here anyway) and fob-off normal car owners with the 'save a litre' line. Like we have a choice in the matter as it's completely replaced their old regular unleaded.
To save a litre in my car, the way I drive, my car would have to be forced to remove some performance, which seems to have been the case, in my experience anyway. After a couple of tanks of High Octane stuff again mine's back to its old self, but the disparity in performance between Shells regular and V- Power seems to have widened, ie V-Power may still be still the same but the new Fuelsave stuff seems lower. Same 95RON but with lower performance attributes.
The RON numbers are a bit misleading anyway as I'm told its how much Oxygen there is in the petrol that gives petrol it's 'punch', ie the more the better. I know Tesco do the 99RON stuff but I don't think it gives as good a punch as 97RON V- Power, and thats because Shell puts about 50% more oxygen into its petrol than Tesco.
Anybody else noticed an issue with Fuelsave?....and if you drive a 1.8 A4 and linger in the middle lane at 68.75mph all the time, then you probably haven't!
Discuss!