Shell V-Power, 5p off this Tuesday 14th Febuary.

[LandingSpot]

Nice one OP! :

[HBFS]

Brimmed the tank with Vpower today in anticipation, (I've heard you need to have had a couple of tanks of the stuff for the ECU to adjust.) I'm not allowed to buy vpower on the works fuel card... Will be filling up again from empty on Tuesday!

[jagracer]

The Shell station behind me has conveniently put their prices up today, in anticipation I suspect.

[johnnyBv8]

HBFS said:

Brimmed the tank with Vpower today in anticipation, (I've heard you need to have had a couple of tanks of the stuff for the ECU to adjust.) I'm not allowed to buy vpower on the works fuel card... Will be filling up again from empty on Tuesday!

On most cars with ECU 'learning', disconnecting the battery for half an hour will reset the ECU.

[Dave Hedgehog]

johnnyBv8 said:

HBFS said:

Brimmed the tank with Vpower today in anticipation, (I've heard you need to have had a couple of tanks of the stuff for the ECU to adjust.) I'm not allowed to buy vpower on the works fuel card... Will be filling up again from empty on Tuesday!

On most cars with ECU 'learning', disconnecting the battery for half an hour will reset the ECU.

just like smart phones, SD Cards, sat nav, SSD drives, flash drives etc

they all loose the data when powered off ..

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Sunday 12th February 09:59

[HBFS]

Dave Hedgehog said:

just like smart phones, SD Cards, sat nav, SSD drives, flash drives etc

they all loose the data when powered off ..

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Sunday 12th February 09:59

Actualy, SD cards, SSD drives and flash drives definitely don't loose all their data when powered off. Memory, as in RAM, Random access memory does.
You where referring to storage, not memory. So phones, when powered off, only loose their random access memory - the stuff that keeps the programs and the OS running.

Sorry to be pedantic, but this is Pistonheads :P

I'm know nothing at all about working on cars, so probably won't disconnect the battery.

[Nedzilla]

The average car will probably save around £3 on a fill up.....hardly worth going out of your way for really is it.

[jagracer]

HBFS said:

Brimmed the tank with Vpower today in anticipation, (I've heard you need to have had a couple of tanks of the stuff for the ECU to adjust.) I'm not allowed to buy vpower on the works fuel card... Will be filling up again from empty on Tuesday!

If your car runs on ordinary unleaded ok why go to the extra expense of V power, it wont run any differently?

Edited by jagracer on Sunday 12th February 14:18

[Marf]

Dave Hedgehog said:

johnnyBv8 said:

HBFS said:

Brimmed the tank with Vpower today in anticipation, (I've heard you need to have had a couple of tanks of the stuff for the ECU to adjust.) I'm not allowed to buy vpower on the works fuel card... Will be filling up again from empty on Tuesday!

On most cars with ECU 'learning', disconnecting the battery for half an hour will reset the ECU.

just like smart phones, SD Cards, sat nav, SSD drives, flash drives etc

they all loose the data when powered off ..

Smartphone - non volatile memory.
ECU learning function - volatile memory.

HTH

Edited by Marf on Sunday 12th February 12:48

[HBFS]

jagracer said:

If your car runs on ordinary unleaded ok why go to the extra expense of V power, it wont run any differently?

Edited by jagracer on Sunday 12th February 14:18

Because it's recommended on the fuel filler cap to use 98 ron like lots of other performance motors.
I don't usually do it because I have a company fuel card and "The use of superfuels (Premium) is not permitted."

Skoda say it's fine to run on ordinary fuels, but I'd like to think that putting in the premium stuff every now and then helps clean the engine etc.

[Maximum Bobs]

HBFS said:

Brimmed the tank with Vpower today in anticipation, (I've heard you need to have had a couple of tanks of the stuff for the ECU to adjust.) I'm not allowed to buy vpower on the works fuel card... Will be filling up again from empty on Tuesday!

But surely you've spent more money filling it with vpower in readiness for filling it with vpower than your going to save from the discount filling it with vpower on tuesday. I may be missing something.

[jatinder]

bks just filled up a full tank

[crocodile tears]

jatinder said:

bks just filled up a full tank

ditto

[Pommygranite]

This isnt at the OP but why do people get so pleased with a few P of a litre given that it probably equates to a £3.50 saving overall on average.

Also on Tuesday a few PH'ers are going to waste a lot more money on crap for their OH but I suppose that's a whole different thread....

Edited by Pommygranite on Sunday 12th February 23:49

[James_N]

Pommygranite said:

This isnt at the OP but why do people get so pleased with a few P of a litre given that it probably equates to a £3.50 saving overall?

Better than a kick up the arse I suppose

[Maximum Bobs]

James_N said:

Better than a kick up the arse I suppose

Not by much though.

[Flibble]

I buy vpower anyway so it's a nice bonus for me. Not worth going out of your way for though.

[James_N]

Maximum Bobs said:

Not by much though.

True I'm not exactly going to fill the volvo up with it. Our Shell will just put the price up over a period of 3-4 days to cover the difference!

[richcorsavxr]

bumping for those who may not have seen.

[Stedman]

jagracer said:

The Shell station behind me has conveniently put their prices up today, in anticipation I suspect.

Which is exactly what they all did last year