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Green1:
I never worry about what goes in the tank. But my sisters car kept messing up Lambda sensors on Tesco fuel and My old Ford Ranger makes a strange pinking kind of noise if run on ASDA Diesel

royhall:
My daughter recently filled her car with Morrisons supermarket cheap crap. Four miles later dad (ME) had to go and tow her home. Wouldn't start again no matter what I tried until I drained the tank and put some good old BP Ultimate in. Started straight away and been running great ever since. So if anyone want six gallons of bonfire starter fuel give me a shout. This is far from the only story about supermarket fuel, it's cheap for a reason.

matthewmosse:
Depends on the machine, my ca125 started to run well below normal  particularly on hills on Tesco fuel, I reverted to Texaco and literally within 200 yards of the petrol station the performance was restored. I almost never buy premium fuel, you just about notice the improvement on a 125, but no more so than if you do tyre pressures and oil everything etc before every trip rather than weekly. Some vehicles seem more fussy than others. I noticed with our two berlingos that the red one was more willing and revved more readily than the silver one, same age and model / engine speck and the only differences should have favoured the silver one which has done 50k less miles and doesn't have aircon to say power. It amounted to the red one could haul 4th up a hill where the silver needed 3rd or it juddered horribly. The difference was Silver was fuelled up consistently by my wife at Tesco, I always fuelled up the other side of town at Texaco. Once I pointed it out to my wife she has now forsaken the Clubcard points and 1p a litre saving and ditched the Tesco fuel in favour of a bit more ooph- yeah I know berlingo are not very fast but every little helps. On my cb500 sidecar I never noticed any difference on whatever fuel was in there and did a lot more miles as it was our only transport and we used to do a lot of fun stuff like rock concerts before the kids arrived. Maybe 8 years ago there was less difference in fuel quality.... Asda diesel coincided with our old Cordoba gaining a strange hickup that never really went away but was always worse if filled at Asda. That put us off their fuel too.

K2-K6:
Matthewmosse,  it's well established by others on here that the red one is always fastest  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Think that's a general thing in life though. :)

Bryanj:
Having found my pile of handbooks the recommendation is SAE-SE 10W40. price has rocketed since i last bought 2x25lt drums but one to try is:-

Halfords

http://www.halfords.com/motoring/engine-oils-fluids/engine-oil/halfords-15w40-mineral-petrol-diesel-oil-5l

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