This seems a bit dodgy...

[anonymous-user]

Anyone had issues with V-Power at all, it looks legit but someone may have an axe to grind. Just checking, I've never had an issue but my car is std tune.

[Draxindustries1]

Not a conclusive test on Vpower. There's no mention of how old the fuel tested was for a start..

[CoreyDog]

Whenever I see something like this I always think of this meme…



If it comes from a reliable source with evidence to support, I’ll pay attention. Rumours, he said she said etc… Massive pinch of salt.

[Clarkedontgo]

Engine that’s supposed to run on 99 fails , garage say what fuel was in it , erm v power honest , do you think I was trying to save 20p a litre !

[anonymous-user]

The company that requested the analysis are well respected engine tuners so they must have suspected something was wrong.

[996TT02]

gottans said:

The company that requested the analysis are well respected engine tuners so they must have suspected something was wrong.

You can assume absolutely nothing other than what you are seeing. A fuel test report. Maybe it is real, but you can't tell. You also don't know who added the text box. You don't know why. You don't know the fuel, if it ever existed, is actually V Power. The entire image is evidence of nothing but the existence of itself.

Aside, engines don't fail because of low octane fuel, certainly not before many many tens of thousands of miles from the effects of pinking, and not modern engines, which retard timing automatically so this never happens. This latter hence yells out BS for the entire thing.

[jhoneyball]

So there is no record of The Oil Lab Ltd at UKAS.COM (my lab is a UKAS ISO17025 test lab)

A look at their address on google street maps suggests it is not what you might expect from an industrial lab.

And their website says "Work is undertaken at ISO, CAA or UKAS accredited laboratories"

without specifying which ones

Hmmmmmmm

[georgeyboy12345]

It’s a Facebook post. It does not look even remotely “legit”

[anonymous-user]

Doesn't look legit at all. But in my personal sample size of 1, V-Power is nowhere near as good as Optimax that it replaced

[Nefos]

jhoneyball said:

So there is no record of The Oil Lab Ltd at UKAS.COM (my lab is a UKAS ISO17025 test lab)

A look at their address on google street maps suggests it is not what you might expect from an industrial lab.

And their website says "Work is undertaken at ISO, CAA or UKAS accredited laboratories"

without specifying which ones

Hmmmmmmm

First of all, it is on facebook, so it must be right, as my parents told me when I grew up "Believe everything you read on the internet"
Secondly, the bottom of the paper is cut off, that has the source of it, but through CSI Enhancing(tm) I managed to reconstruct it:

Source: Trust me bro


Jokes aside this looks like a really weird looking report, it is framed for some reason, done last year in December, all your findings...

yeah, as the thread title says "This seems a bit dodgy..."

[Chubbyross]

Says someone off of the internet…

[Condi]

Isn't this a few years old? I'm sure it has circulated before and found to be nonsense back then as well.

[anonymous-user]

Thanks all, I didn't believe it but thought that Shell might have picked up on it and kicked off.

[Drooles]

MrBig said:

Doesn't look legit at all. But in my personal sample size of 1, V-Power is nowhere near as good as Optimax that it replaced

I’d second this. My old cars ran much better on Optimax than on V-Power. Like you say, small sample size, but interesting that you have a similar experience.

There isn’t a Tesco near me - is it worth travelling?

[CraigyMc]

M_O_W_G_L_I said:

Thanks all, I didn't believe it but thought that Shell might have picked up on it and kicked off.

It was dodgy the last time it was on pistonheads too, which was several months ago.