Devon Tesco Petrol Warning

[Skodaku]

sprinter1050 said:

RobCrezz said:

Scottish Greg said:

You should avoid all supermarket fuels anyway. They are in no way the same as what you get from Shell, BP and Esso.

Tesco Super 99 is pretty good, but I doubt that comes from the same place as the other stuff.

All petrol sold on forecourts comes from a selection of UK refineries around the country. Or put another way- same fuel from same refinery goes to different filling stations.
Additives put in at point of sale make the difference basically. Two of the largest refineries in the UK are near me & I have friends who know these sorts of things :

And your friends are absolutely correct. How is life around the Solent ?

[Seight_Returns]

sprinter1050 said:

RobCrezz said:

Scottish Greg said:

You should avoid all supermarket fuels anyway. They are in no way the same as what you get from Shell, BP and Esso.

Tesco Super 99 is pretty good, but I doubt that comes from the same place as the other stuff.

All petrol sold on forecourts comes from a selection of UK refineries around the country. Or put another way- same fuel from same refinery goes to different filling stations.
Additives put in at point of sale make the difference basically. Two of the largest refineries in the UK are near me & I have friends who know these sorts of things :

Spot on.

[Silent1]

Skodaku said:

sprinter1050 said:

RobCrezz said:

Scottish Greg said:

You should avoid all supermarket fuels anyway. They are in no way the same as what you get from Shell, BP and Esso.

Tesco Super 99 is pretty good, but I doubt that comes from the same place as the other stuff.

All petrol sold on forecourts comes from a selection of UK refineries around the country. Or put another way- same fuel from same refinery goes to different filling stations.
Additives put in at point of sale make the difference basically. Two of the largest refineries in the UK are near me & I have friends who know these sorts of things :

And your friends are absolutely correct. How is life around the Solent ?

Unless you're talking about V-power or BP102

[ianwayne]

I'm not convinced those saying on here that additives are put in at the point of sale really do know people 'in the business.'

I know a tanker driver who delivers fuel for a living. Fuel is a 'bonded' item once it is in a tanker, as far as Customs are concerned, anyone messing with or adding to fuel once it leaves a depot is committing a criminal offence.

There are no 'economy' bays at the depots at Kingsbury, etc. They are Esso, Shell, Texaco etc. There are NO bays marked Asda, Tesco etc. It is all the same.

Only the high-octane fuels such as V-plus etc are different.

Problems at forecourts are usually down to 'crap' in the lorry used to deliver the fuel or in the storage tank at the local depot. Supermarkets save money by getting the fuel as cheap as possible, sometimes from distributors who don't have the best or newest delivery equipment and facilities. The fuel itself is identical.

[MrFlibbles]

ianwayne said:

I'm not convinced those saying on here that additives are put in at the point of sale really do know people 'in the business.'

I know a tanker driver who delivers fuel for a living. Fuel is a 'bonded' item once it is in a tanker, as far as Customs are concerned, anyone messing with or adding to fuel once it leaves a depot is committing a criminal offence.

There are no 'economy' bays at the depots at Kingsbury, etc. They are Esso, Shell, Texaco etc. There are NO bays marked Asda, Tesco etc. It is all the same.

Only the high-octane fuels such as V-plus etc are different.

Problems at forecourts are usually down to 'crap' in the lorry used to deliver the fuel or in the storage tank at the local depot. Supermarkets save money by getting the fuel as cheap as possible, sometimes from distributors who don't have the best or newest delivery equipment and facilities. The fuel itself is identical.

Ian, thats mostly incorrect.

Cheers

Russ

[roadnut]

Just to add to the info: most, if not all, road fuels sold south of Bristol come through one ocean terminal wharf and 2 depots in Plymouth.

[AndrewW-G]

The additive packs are added when the fuel is pumped into the tankers, think of it like a pubs cola pump dispensing carbonated water and syrup into a glass

You can sit outside Shell Stanlow and watch them fill up all the tankers from various retailers, from the same pumps (ok its more a giant gantry).............the only exception is V-Power, which only comes out of Stanlow and only goes into Shell tankers