ASDA petrol stations
Discussion
Marc W said:
I thin Asda run them themselves with fuel supplied by a company called Harvest Energy.
wikipedia never lies... well they did in 2007...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_UK_petrol_contam...
TonyHetherington said:
Harvest Energy...are they doing their own petrol stations now?
My local Shell I drove past for the first time in a couple of weeks this morning and it's now a light blue colour with "Harvest" and, from memory, "Mace" all over it!?!? Never heard of them!
yupMy local Shell I drove past for the first time in a couple of weeks this morning and it's now a light blue colour with "Harvest" and, from memory, "Mace" all over it!?!? Never heard of them!
http://www.harvestenergy.co.uk/news.php
TonyHetherington said:
My local Shell I drove past for the first time in a couple of weeks this morning and it's now a light blue colour with "Harvest" and, from memory, "Mace" all over it!?!? Never heard of them!
Mace is a chain of small grocery shops like Spar.But I wanted to write to whoever is in charge of forecourts to find out why very often up to half the pumps are out of commission, half the pay booths are shut and the express pumps are usually out of paper so you don't get a receipt for the books. That's just carelessness.
Interestingly back in July/August I could get 40+ mpg from Asda diesel, now it's 38.6.
Simpo Two said:
TonyHetherington said:
My local Shell I drove past for the first time in a couple of weeks this morning and it's now a light blue colour with "Harvest" and, from memory, "Mace" all over it!?!? Never heard of them!
Mace is a chain of small grocery shops like Spar.My dad's just started using Shell's economy diesel. He used to get 56mpg, now driving identically gets 60+.
Manks said:
Tyre pressure? Profile? Fitted a roof rack? Have you become significantly more lardy? Is there are illegal hiding under your vehcile?
Now that's interesting; I fitted new tyres (Falken) all round in July - but that should give a larger rolling diameter and so help economy... and AFAIK the drop started after that.But the main point is to get Asda's petrol stations run a bit better because on my patch at least somebody seems to have taken their eye off the ball.
Simpo Two said:
Manks said:
Tyre pressure? Profile? Fitted a roof rack? Have you become significantly more lardy? Is there are illegal hiding under your vehcile?
Now that's interesting; I fitted new tyres (Falken) all round in July - but that should give a larger rolling diameter and so help economy... and AFAIK the drop started after that.Simpo Two said:
that should give a larger rolling diameter and so help economy...
hmmm larger diameter will make your speedo less accurate will it not?. e.g. what was 70mph indicated (65mph actual) will now be 67mph actual - I dunno, but you get the idea - that your actual speed will increase vs indicated , meanign your actually going faster, giving more resistance and less economy.or have I just mucked that up?
lestag said:
Simpo Two said:
that should give a larger rolling diameter and so help economy...
hmmm larger diameter will make your speedo less accurate will it not?. e.g. what was 70mph indicated (65mph actual) will now be 67mph actual - I dunno, but you get the idea - that your actual speed will increase vs indicated , meanign your actually going faster, giving more resistance and less economy.or have I just mucked that up?
It has built-in GPS so could use absolute distance if it wanted to, but I expect a thingy in the spokes is cheaper!
Simpo Two said:
lestag said:
Simpo Two said:
that should give a larger rolling diameter and so help economy...
hmmm larger diameter will make your speedo less accurate will it not?. e.g. what was 70mph indicated (65mph actual) will now be 67mph actual - I dunno, but you get the idea - that your actual speed will increase vs indicated , meanign your actually going faster, giving more resistance and less economy.or have I just mucked that up?
It has built-in GPS so could use absolute distance if it wanted to, but I expect a thingy in the spokes is cheaper!
Simpo Two said:
OK; well if so that's too bad; I'm not taking the tyres off. If your theory is correct, economy will improve as they wear down!
I think you are missing a trick here. What you should do it to remove the tyres completely and sell them on Ebay - that's £100 quid in the bank straight away. The reduced rolling diameter will return the gearing to the sweet spot - there's a fuel saving.
Rims are very low drag on tarmac, so the rolling resistance will be less - that's another saving.
Finally, rims are a lot harder than tyres so replacement will be less frequent.
You should soon be saving hundreds of pounds per annum.
Manks
Next week - how to make your brakes last forever by never slowing down.
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