Petrol prices- when does the madness end?

[mattyprice4004]

Dog Star said:

I'm probably opening a right old can of worms by saying this, but hey. There are an awful lot of people on here quoting their fuel prices for 99RON or whatever - yet *almost* every time I look at said PHers garage where they have one in their profile, they've got some car that can quite easily run on normal petrol (they will, however, ALWAYS have the excuse that "it runs better", they have a remap, it's an import, "I get x% better economy", "additives" blah blah). Very few are something so exotic that they *need* it.

Anyway - got to dash - need to top up the nitrogen in my tyres.

Because a lot of the time that is indeed the case.
My old ZS180 will happily run on E10, but having knock sensors and a few modifications it’s much happier on E5.

[Nefos]

At my local BP 95 petrol stopped at 189.99 for a while now, I did not look at BP ultimate prices.

[HannsG]

Makes no sense to run my M4 in less than 99Ron. Anyone here compromised on their performance car?

[bigothunter]

HannsG said:

Makes no sense to run my M4 in less than 99Ron. Anyone here compromised on their performance car?

You could discover 95 RON E10 compromises your fuel economy as well

[Speed addicted]

GranpaB said:

From what i understand, premium fuels have better cleaning agents as well as performance benefits.

I occasionally fill the motorbikes with premium stuff if they’re not running well, due to the higher detergent levels rather than any performance benefit.
My triumph was occasionally stalling at low revs while touring, it’s been parked for most of the last two years so I put a tank of the premium stuff through it. Problem solved immediately and hasn’t returned since swapping back to cheaper fuel.

[swisstoni]

Yes, I’ve had cars come out of winter layup running rough and me cursing about something else to sort out, only to have them running like champs after a dose of the fresh good stuff.

[HustleRussell]

Dog Star said:

I'm probably opening a right old can of worms by saying this, but hey. There are an awful lot of people on here quoting their fuel prices for 99RON or whatever - yet *almost* every time I look at said PHers garage where they have one in their profile, they've got some car that can quite easily run on normal petrol (they will, however, ALWAYS have the excuse that "it runs better", they have a remap, it's an import, "I get x% better economy", "additives" blah blah). Very few are something so exotic that they *need* it.

My car definitely doesn't 'need' it but very occasionally (e.g. once or twice a year) I like to put a tank of super through it- and I did that this month because I can't get my head around paying 1.92 for the watered-down stuff. May as well spend 2.00 on the good stuff. It's a quirk of how the prices have massively inflated across the board but the difference between 95 and super has remained the same.

However I saw an increase in fuel economy which was greater than the price difference. The price difference is little more than 4% which must be an all-time low. It actually paid for itself.

[TameRacingDriver]

HannsG said:

Makes no sense to run my M4 in less than 99Ron. Anyone here compromised on their performance car?

Nope. If I bought a performance car then I accepted it'll cost more to run, end of.

Besides I'm sure the mpg drops using crap fuel by about the same difference as the price, so it's a false economy all round I reckon.

[Uncle Meat]

Tesco selling petrol at £1.68?
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/28/drivers-flock-to-te...

How/why have they managed that?

[NFT]

Uncle Meat said:

Tesco selling petrol at £1.68?
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/28/drivers-flock-to-te...

How/why have they managed that?

Not sure myself as complexities of fuel are not my place to comment,

But does appear they're giving it away in comparison to all other tesco stations, perhaps Tesco is having an experiment to determine if the stations shop profit will go up enough for them to consider raking punters in at select sites with dwindling fuel & in station shop sales in a strategy to boost footfall hoping for it to increase take at select sites likely to be flooded with punters.

[murphyaj]

Uncle Meat said:

Tesco selling petrol at £1.68?
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/28/drivers-flock-to-te...

How/why have they managed that?

I'd be willing to bet that's a "fat finger" mistake. i.e. someone not paying attention and pressing the wrong key while inputting the price.

[NFT]

murphyaj said:

I'd be willing to bet that's a "fat finger" mistake. i.e. someone not paying attention and pressing the wrong key while inputting the price.

Or this, and someone's in for it, also would be a good last day or I quit revenge for disgruntled worker lol

[QuartzDad]

Slightly interesting, all the nearby BP, Shell, Sainsburys etc. are - give or take a penny or two - 189.9 & 199.9 for petrol and diesel respectively.

Whereas the local small village back street garage with two ancient pumps that no-one ever uses and wasn't on Waze until I added it, is 202.0 and 192.0 respectively.

Strange.

Edited by QuartzDad on Wednesday 29th June 16:40

[DonkeyApple]

Uncle Meat said:

Tesco selling petrol at £1.68?
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/28/drivers-flock-to-te...

How/why have they managed that?

It's a slightly odd article beyond the Ely Tesco bit. Both the AA and RAC spokespeople are claiming prices have fallen when in reality Brent simply continues its March upwards and given the impending OPEC supply squeeze is going to almost certainly head higher and probably breach recent, previous highs.

If they're referring to wholesale refinery costs then why don't they publish a blended index of these prices so that the general public can get as good an understanding of wholesale costs as they have of retail? It would be the best and most efficient way to get retailers to move prices down rather than risk lingering.

A centralised wholesale price index as a public reference point is maybe too obvious for folk who are paid to complain rather than solve?

https://www.racfoundation.org/data/wholesale-fuel-...

Their own website doesn't rush to support what they are saying.

Edited by DonkeyApple on Wednesday 29th June 16:40

[Square Leg]

QuartzDad said:

Slightly interesting, all the nearby BP, Shell, Sainsburys etc. are - give or take a penny or two - 189.9 & 199.9 for petrol and diesel respectively.

Edited by QuartzDad on Wednesday 29th June 16:40

I’ve passed three stations today and all were priced the same as this.
A week ago they were all different by a penny or two.

[ch37]

Square Leg said:

I’ve passed three stations today and all were priced the same as this.
A week ago they were all different by a penny or two.

I mentioned a day or two ago that every station locally has stalled at 199.9 for diesel (7 or 8 petrol stations) even if a week or two ago they had 5 or 6p differences.

[Davie Lad]

A87 Cluanie Inn Saturday..

[Trustmeimadoctor]

cheaper to drive to inverness and back to fill up

im must admit id have thought we would have fixed this now after moaning about it for 45 pages

[bigothunter]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

cheaper to drive to inverness and back to fill up

im must admit id have thought we would have fixed this now after moaning about it for 45 pages

Only 45 - I'm on moaning page 180

[NFT]

bigothunter said:

Only 45 - I'm on moaning page 180

Moaning is cheaper than motoring though,

Friend has tyres to 55psi and adjusted steering to 0 toe all round on his semi stripped out diesel using filtered cooking oil,

I asked if much cheaper to get to work, says No, the problem is he now gets cravings then goes to chippy instead of eating pack up, stripping him of any savings, lol