Does this even make sense?

[Trikster]

Spotted at my local Shell garage... 100% of what?? made me twitch.... is it me?

[Whataguy]

It’s awful branding, they even have the same graphic on their website.

Full sentence is ‘ restores up to 100% of your engines performance’

But maybe that’s the idea, by beating misleading you look up the website to find out what they are on about?

[Riley Blue]

It's used repeatedly on their web site but when you read the numerous caveats they all include 'No guarantees provided'.

In other words it could mean anything between 0 - 100% so no different from any other fuel.

[Mr Tidy]

OK it's E5 99 RON but it's stupidly expensive.

I use Tesco Momentum E5 99 RON!

[Terminator X]

Up to 100% ... Sounds good but meaningless of course.

TX.

[Heaveho]

Mr Tidy said:

OK it's E5 99 RON but it's stupidly expensive.

I use Tesco Momentum E5 99 RON!

All the other brands are good if you use the car regularly. Shell is very good for keeping it's RON rating on stored cars. Up to 3 years on mine, they just start and run.

[mwstewart]

I measured this on my car using an oscilloscope and found that it only applied between 81 and 83mph. The window of improvement was so small that I decided to use regular 95.

[WelshRich]

The one that sticks with me from an old college lecture was an advert where Ford claimed that their new car was “700% quieter”


When challenged by the advertising standards agency, Ford justified their claim by saying that the car was 700% quieter on the inside than the outside…

[supacool1]

Haaaaa...saw this literally yesterday when I walked over to the Shell garage down the road from my partners house. Thought the same thing...

60% of the time it works every time....

[Olivergt]

"Now up to 100%"

The critical words are "up to" those 2 little words effectively make the whole statement meaningless.

Pick any number between 0 and 100 and it will satisfy that statement.

[Baldchap]

Heaveho said:

Mr Tidy said:

OK it's E5 99 RON but it's stupidly expensive.

I use Tesco Momentum E5 99 RON!

All the other brands are good if you use the car regularly. Shell is very good for keeping it's RON rating on stored cars. Up to 3 years on mine, they just start and run.

The actual science behind fuel degradation is that basically in a sensible sized sealed container (like a modern fuel tank), it won't go off in any meaningful way over a few years.

[UTH]

Olivergt said:

"Now up to 100%"

The critical words are "up to" those 2 little words effectively make the whole statement meaningless.

Pick any number between 0 and 100 and it will satisfy that statement.

Same issue I've always had with the words "one of the...."

I am one of the tallest men in the world. I may be number 6,345,768,324 in the world, but it's still one of the tallest.
A nonsense phrase really.

[BertBert]

Baldchap said:

The actual science behind fuel degradation is that basically in a sensible sized sealed container (like a modern fuel tank), it won't go off in any meaningful way over a few years.

But that's not what modern folk-fuel-lore says. People are thinking their petrol won't last over a winter

[Alex_225]

supacool1 said:

60% of the time it works every time....

Exactly what I was about to put hahaha. But is it made with bits of real panther!

[boyse7en]

Alex_225 said:

supacool1 said:

60% of the time it works every time....

Exactly what I was about to put hahaha. But is it made with bits of real panther!

It's 100% effective, but there's only a 50% chance of that...