Fuel Suppliers

[Conquistador]

99 Momentum all the way for me. So much better than any other fuel I've used before. I get on average 50-60 miles further per tank.

[briang9]

another vote for Momentum, and its a lot cheaper than Shell as well

[ScottD3]

Momentum is Petrol only though innit?

[mannyo]

I only run mine on Tesco 95 RON. Living in sleepy dorset the town only has two petrol stations, Tesco and Esso with the Esso one being nearly 10P a litre more than Tesco. Being a small Tesco it only has standard fuels, so no momentum 99 RON.

Momentum is indeed petrol only, but all Diesel must meet minimum requirements and it is that the car is designed to run on.

[PsYcHe]

Did notice a difference on the economy of my D2 and PF D3 on V-Power. Not sure on the diesels, but can't shake the niggling doubt that filling up my car on Asda diesel (it's just round the corner) a lot contributed to the DPF failure (though I'm sure 100k+ miles didn't help either).

[Goran]

I was almost going to try some Momentum, then I started searching online and found a few shocking articles about Tesco's past c#@k ups. I think I'll stay with v-power.

http://www.andoverandvillages.co.uk/...-damaging-cars

[sarg]

you think Shell never **** it up?

[tintin]

Over the years I've had occasional bad petrol from all sorts of petrol station brands, including Shell.

I'm not a particular fan of Tesco, but I'd expect them to resolve a problem like this pretty quickly to avoid bad publicity (which this article hints that they are doing…). They own all their stations (on supermarket sites), whereas the great majority of Shell stations are franchises, so their standards of customer management are, in my experience, much more variable.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that Shell's V-Power was a marketing response to Tesco introducing Momentum 99 in the UK (though I'm happy to be proved wrong on this…): it's the only supermarket chain offering this - the others offer only 97 RON petrol, and some (e.g. Morrisons) rarely have anything other than standard unleaded, which is probably bought on the wholesale market, and which I'd never put in my S8 or Coupe.

I still use a mix of Shell, BP, and Tesco Momentum, but would only choose between them on price these days.

[ScottD3]

Looking at a map of petrol stations around me and it looks Shell and BP is rare.
So I'm stuck with Tescos, Esso or Texaco.
I'll finish this tank off of Tesco and I'll try the other two and see what happens.

Does anyone know who supplies the supermarkets with fuel?
I can't see them making it.