Author Topic: Premium petrol (Read 773 times)

hemming · « **on:** April 04, 2020, 09:38:43 AM »

The new regime at Honest John seems to have changed their policy on premium petrol. On the current page they say that, unless you have a high performance car, there is no point in using premium fuel.
It will be interesting to see if the critical stance HJ took on VAG cars changes (especially in the light of what I believe is the ownership or sponsorship of the new regime)...

trebor1652 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 04, 2020, 10:03:20 AM »

Hey-car are the new owners of this site.

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hemming · « **Reply #2 on:** April 04, 2020, 10:14:50 AM »

Yep - whose shareholders are VW Finance and Daimler.

guest8810 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 04, 2020, 02:43:11 PM »

Quote from: hemming on April 04, 2020, 10:14:50 AM

Yep - whose shareholders are VW Finance and Daimler.

Ah Ha that makes sense,
They have ways to influence now even more so.

Jocko · « **Reply #4 on:** April 04, 2020, 03:26:58 PM »

Passed my local Shell station today. The current price of V-Power is less than I paid for my supermarket 95 octane at my last top-up. Every cloud has a silver lining.

peteo48 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 05, 2020, 10:10:01 AM »

Quote from: Jocko on April 04, 2020, 03:26:58 PM

Passed my local Shell station today. The current price of V-Power is less than I paid for my supermarket 95 octane at my last top-up. Every cloud has a silver lining.

A great time to try it out but I've still got nearly a full tank!

Pine · « **Reply #6 on:** April 05, 2020, 06:45:45 PM »

I have tried 97/99 octane petrol in many of the cars I have owned and in my experience it can make an improvement but only in cars with a turbo. I went through a couple of spells of trying it in my Jazz and each time I found the MPG to be no better and sometimes worse than normal, so for the jazz it was 95 octane only.

As for the supposedly extra cleaning additives/properties of super unleaded, I can remember when an engine would need a de-coke after 40,000 miles. With the fuels of today the word "de-coke" isn't even in the modern mechanics vocabulary.