Prepayment Fuel Pump at Tesco...Genius!
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Tesco currently provide an immensely popular promotion "Buy £50 of groceries and receive a 5p off/litre fuel voucher".
Tesco prepayment pumps do not accept discount vouchers...leading to mayhem on the forecourt, as motorists unable to redeem vouchers at prepayment pump, reluctantly join a queue for a "Pay at Kiosk" pump.
Tesco prepayment pumps do not accept discount vouchers...leading to mayhem on the forecourt, as motorists unable to redeem vouchers at prepayment pump, reluctantly join a queue for a "Pay at Kiosk" pump.
Gave up on Pay-At-Pump years ago - too much bother, often out of order, and you may have to sit and wait until the bloke in front has come out of the kiosk anyway.
Not sure how if it would be worth fitting all the pumps with bar code readers, with all the attendant litter from discarded coupons. I would prefer them to put the money into devising a system whereby it is impossible to entangle all three hoses on a pump.
Not sure how if it would be worth fitting all the pumps with bar code readers, with all the attendant litter from discarded coupons. I would prefer them to put the money into devising a system whereby it is impossible to entangle all three hoses on a pump.
Yet more nonsense about octane ratings and fuel consumption. If your engine is mapped for 95 as most regular cars are run it on that, 97/99 will make no difference to anything as your cars management system does not have sufficient self adjustment to optimise it's settings for the higher octane and it's associated benefits. It fou have a hight performance car designed for the high octane stuff use it or you will damage your engine through detonation, simple.
Also in many tests, carried out by magazines and also MIRA Tescos fuels have always performed very well in both power and economy ratings. After all the base fuel for all the companies sits in the same huge tanks at the docks and the fuel companies then add their own concoctions of additives/detergents, thats all there is to it.
Also in many tests, carried out by magazines and also MIRA Tescos fuels have always performed very well in both power and economy ratings. After all the base fuel for all the companies sits in the same huge tanks at the docks and the fuel companies then add their own concoctions of additives/detergents, thats all there is to it.
cpas said:
Given up buying Tesco fuel years ago. May be 1% cheaper but fuel consumption normally down by 5 to 10%!!!
I get better fuel consumption (brimmed tank measurements) with Tesco Momentum 99 than with Total Excellium 97 (which is also more expensive). Shell V-Power is what gives me the best fuel consumption figures as well as makes the engine sounds the smoothest.ewenm said:
Amazingly, Sainsburys here manage to have a button on the pump to choose Pay-At-Pump or Pay-In-Kiosk, so ALL pumps are usable by ALL people.
Same at every Tesco fuel station I have been to.sinizter said:
cpas said:
Given up buying Tesco fuel years ago. May be 1% cheaper but fuel consumption normally down by 5 to 10%!!!
I get better fuel consumption (brimmed tank measurements) with Tesco Momentum 99 than with Total Excellium 97 (which is also more expensive). Shell V-Power is what gives me the best fuel consumption figures as well as makes the engine sounds the smoothest.ewenm said:
Amazingly, Sainsburys here manage to have a button on the pump to choose Pay-At-Pump or Pay-In-Kiosk, so ALL pumps are usable by ALL people.
Same at every Tesco fuel station I have been to.JSquaredJim said:
It fou have a hight performance car designed for the high octane stuff use it or you will damage your engine through detonation, simple.
most high performance cars have a knock sensor for each cylinder and can alter the timing for each cylinder if pre-ignition is detected to prevent engine damage.possibly older high performance engines without this monitoring system could have problems.
Marc W said:
Same at the local tesco here too. They also have barcode readers but for some reason Tesco can't seem to make a coupon that can be accpeted by the pumps. I assume it's because they want to keep the physical paper slips for records and there isn't really a practical way to have a pump which can hld onto paper slips!
We need to send all the coupons down to cash office at the end of each day, so sadly there isn't a way (thats easy) for it to be done. Hell they've only just made it so we don't need to work out how much money to take off ourselves! My 5 times tables up to 100 are down to a tee(tea/t?).The moral of this storey is tight people cant be lazy ???
or
People who are short of maoney and but over £50 worth or shopping could do with the exercise of walking from the pump ALL that way to the till ?
or
people post right crap on pistonheads?
you may choose ONE answer only from the above!
2 if your a student and can't read the line above without an adult present to explain it's meening
or
People who are short of maoney and but over £50 worth or shopping could do with the exercise of walking from the pump ALL that way to the till ?
or
people post right crap on pistonheads?
you may choose ONE answer only from the above!
2 if your a student and can't read the line above without an adult present to explain it's meening
JSquaredJim said:
Yet more nonsense about octane ratings and fuel consumption. If your engine is mapped for 95 as most regular cars are run it on that, 97/99 will make no difference to anything as your cars management system does not have sufficient self adjustment to optimise it's settings for the higher octane and it's associated benefits. It fou have a hight performance car designed for the high octane stuff use it or you will damage your engine through detonation, simple.
Also in many tests, carried out by magazines and also MIRA Tescos fuels have always performed very well in both power and economy ratings. After all the base fuel for all the companies sits in the same huge tanks at the docks and the fuel companies then add their own concoctions of additives/detergents, thats all there is to it.
Unless of course you car has a knock sensor that retards and advances the ignition to take the octain rating (or knock level) into account Also in many tests, carried out by magazines and also MIRA Tescos fuels have always performed very well in both power and economy ratings. After all the base fuel for all the companies sits in the same huge tanks at the docks and the fuel companies then add their own concoctions of additives/detergents, thats all there is to it.
TBH i use supermarket fuel most of the time and it's identical to other brands, THE only time i get more miles is on my own fuel blend created in me garage
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