TheWizardofOdds 0 Posted November 15, 2007 How else are the government meant to pay for all those nice new stadia and sports arenas where people will be chucking blancmanges and throwing jam-jars around or something in 2031?..Tax the shit out of the motorist, the mugs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vwdeviant 0 Posted November 15, 2007 Kinda back on topic.. BP super(shite) unleaded is £1.10/ltr in Aylesbury! Regular's 99p/ltr.. Guess which I chose with the last £10 in my pocket! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Veearrhsix 0 Posted November 15, 2007 Might be myth but anyone noticed differences in power from their C (VR6), when filling from different petrol brands? Got BP superunleaded in at the mo - more zippier than usual. I'm not really veering away from the thread as it still cost me £60+ to fill the damn thing! Same as a Porsche 911! :shock: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim 2 Posted November 15, 2007 I was running Tesco Superunleaded most recently and my car seemed lumpy and a bit off.. i've just filled up at my local Total garage with their normal unleaded and it seems a HECK of a lot smoother. When I got to work this morning I got out of the car and had a walk around it.. the idle was solid with no occasional dips! I think i'm just going to avoid Tesco fuel completely! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander 0 Posted November 15, 2007 I've always been told that supermarket petrol is to be avoided, not sure how true that is, but I've got a couple of BPs close to my house, and a Shell the other side of town so I just use them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
davidwort 0 Posted November 15, 2007 Going off topic again and risking opening a well worn discussion elsewhere, but supermarkets don't own refineries. The base fuel comes from the same places as brands. The main difference between brands and between brands and supermarkets is the additives, admittedly I don't have a Corrado that can take advantage of better fuel but my 16v has always run fine on Tesco Super and just as smoothly on regular, I've tried tanks of Optimax etc but it's never made any difference even though it was set up on a rolling road using Optimax. If you run on regular unleaded then Shell/BP etc does make a small difference to resitance to pinking, my dad's old coked up Audi 80 used to pink on Tesco regular but not Shell. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MillSpeed 0 Posted November 15, 2007 $3.50 per gallon in the states! A colleague just told me,, I remember when it hit $1.99 a gallon when I was living in Cincinnati in 2001, there was uproar! You should've seen the look on their faces when I told em how much we paid for petrol. Then I moved to Oklahoma where it was £1.08 a gallon. At those prices even running my 472cu in (7.8 litre) Cadillac wasn't too painful! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CorradoRun 0 Posted November 19, 2007 tunbridge wells shell vpower 109.7 today !!!!!!! :shock: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vwdeviant 0 Posted November 19, 2007 tunbridge wells shell vpower 109.7 today !!!!!!! :shock: Cheap! Buckinghamshire... Tessers Super plus.. £112.9! Didn't even look at the Shell down the road. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CorradoRun 0 Posted November 19, 2007 tunbridge wells shell vpower 109.7 today !!!!!!! :shock: Cheap! Buckinghamshire... Tessers Super plus.. £112.9! Didn't even look at the Shell down the road. what !! :shock: i think we should all take our corrados and block the fuel depo's :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
junkie 0 Posted November 19, 2007 tunbridge wells shell vpower 109.7 today !!!!!!! :shock: Cheap! Buckinghamshire... Tessers Super plus.. £112.9! Didn't even look at the Shell down the road. what !! :shock: i think we should all take our corrados and block the fuel depo's :lol: I blame Clarkson last night saying it's really good value for money........... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CorradoRun 0 Posted November 19, 2007 I blame Clarkson last night saying it's really good value for money........... whats that ? i missed top gear last night ! what did he say ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
junkie 0 Posted November 19, 2007 Bull sperm is £24,000 a litre :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CorradoRun 0 Posted November 19, 2007 Bull sperm is £24,000 a litre :lol: :lol: i love top gear ! my dad recorded it and i cant wait till i see it later now.. lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vwdeviant 0 Posted November 19, 2007 Bull sperm is £24,000 a litre :lol: Yeah but keeping the Nozzle in the tanks an art-form apparently! :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toad 0 Posted November 19, 2007 Bull sperm is £24,000 a litre :lol: Yeah but keeping the Nozzle in the tanks an art-form apparently! :lol: Using the electro stimulator is quite hard too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vwdeviant 0 Posted November 19, 2007 Bull sperm is £24,000 a litre :lol: Yeah but keeping the Nozzle in the tanks an art-form apparently! :lol: Using the electro stimulator is quite hard too. Hah Thought you were a real man, not one who uses "toys" ;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lauraJ 0 Posted November 20, 2007 Not sure if it's already been posted but http://www.petrolprices.com tell you where the cheapest petrol is in your area you to have to sign up but if you're willing to travel a few miles could know a couple of pence off!! Not a lot I know. :( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CorradoRun 0 Posted May 27, 2010 omg this is so funny reading this from 2007 all those years ago ! only if we would know we would pay 133.09 for vpower only 3 years on..... :pale: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yandards 0 Posted May 28, 2010 omg this is so funny reading this from 2007 all those years ago ! only if we would know we would pay 133.09 for vpower only 3 years on..... :pale: Holy thread resurection Batman! But yeah, very valid point it is crazy how we all complain like hell about fuel prices but right now most of us would be happy paying 'only' £1.10 for a litre of super... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
big ben 10 Posted May 28, 2010 imagine how much it will be in 3 years :( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
V-Dubstar 0 Posted May 28, 2010 It'll be like Mad Max :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Bacon 5 Posted May 28, 2010 omg this is so funny reading this from 2007 all those years ago ! only if we would know we would pay 133.09 for vpower only 3 years on..... :pale: I've been using Tesco 99 Ron more and more because of the 5p off a litre vouchers you get in store and I'm finding the car seems to prefer it to V power, so I might swerve Shell and their rip off pricing from now on.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
big ben 10 Posted May 28, 2010 for some reason tescos fuel goes further as well im sure, i only go to go tesco now as well Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wy906 0 Posted May 28, 2010 for some reason tescos fuel goes further as well im sure, i only go to go tesco now as well No Tesco near my place...... :mad2: Got the ‘mini/metro Tesco’ with ESSO petrol but that’s different to Tesco 99, right? Shell is less than 10 minutes away so I've been using V-Power. What I really need is Asda 99! :D Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites