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Read an interesting post On Facebook written by a guy in the industry
Super unleaded & supermaket fuels - The True Facts!
With huge thanks to Ed Scott for collating his professional experience within the industry
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"I have 11 years experience in the fuel industry and manage the accounts for the sale of 2 billion litres of fuel per year in the UK.
Supermarkets get their fuel from the same places as main forecourt brands. If you're just getting regular unleaded there is virtually no difference between them. Asda, Tesco and the like go to the same refinery and load on the same racks as BP, Esso, JET etc.
There are differences with premium grades though. Anything marked super unleaded is the same.
Anything with a fancy name, 'momentum, v power, supreme' etc is the same super unleaded fuel but with that brands own additives mix. Some are better than others but none are bad. Momentum and V Power tend to be the highest quality.
The Mustang will run absolutely fine on any UK grade unleaded. It may produce an unnoticable amount more bhp on Super Unleaded. If you feel a difference it's probably in your mind. The main benefit of premium grades is that they help clean the injectors and other parts of the car but you don't need this every fill up to achieve the results. Once every other fill up is more than enough and even once every 4 fill ups will net you pretty much the same benefits.
Costco is the only exception as the buy their fuel from the same refineries and companies except the don't buy the retail grade of unleaded, diesel or super (which is usually additised) and instead buy it as base fuel, then they add in the additives themselves on site. Given how heavily regulated the UK is, I'm sure that the blend that they produce that ends up in your tank is no different to every other brand.
I pretty much use Tesco 99% of the time as there is one on my route to and from work. Usually I stick in regular, but will do a tank of Super now and again.
EU laws mean that unleaded fuel has to have 5% ethanol content - this is for environmental reasons. Ethanol is not very good for the fuel systems found on older cars and it will deteriorate rubber hoses and seals, so you actually want ethanol-free fuel for a Classic car.
Super Unleaded doesn't actually contain any ethanol and it isn't required to by law like regular unleaded is. For that reason alone, I would actually recommend super unleaded in any classic"
Super unleaded & supermaket fuels - The True Facts!
With huge thanks to Ed Scott for collating his professional experience within the industry
===========================================
"I have 11 years experience in the fuel industry and manage the accounts for the sale of 2 billion litres of fuel per year in the UK.
Supermarkets get their fuel from the same places as main forecourt brands. If you're just getting regular unleaded there is virtually no difference between them. Asda, Tesco and the like go to the same refinery and load on the same racks as BP, Esso, JET etc.
There are differences with premium grades though. Anything marked super unleaded is the same.
Anything with a fancy name, 'momentum, v power, supreme' etc is the same super unleaded fuel but with that brands own additives mix. Some are better than others but none are bad. Momentum and V Power tend to be the highest quality.
The Mustang will run absolutely fine on any UK grade unleaded. It may produce an unnoticable amount more bhp on Super Unleaded. If you feel a difference it's probably in your mind. The main benefit of premium grades is that they help clean the injectors and other parts of the car but you don't need this every fill up to achieve the results. Once every other fill up is more than enough and even once every 4 fill ups will net you pretty much the same benefits.
Costco is the only exception as the buy their fuel from the same refineries and companies except the don't buy the retail grade of unleaded, diesel or super (which is usually additised) and instead buy it as base fuel, then they add in the additives themselves on site. Given how heavily regulated the UK is, I'm sure that the blend that they produce that ends up in your tank is no different to every other brand.
I pretty much use Tesco 99% of the time as there is one on my route to and from work. Usually I stick in regular, but will do a tank of Super now and again.
EU laws mean that unleaded fuel has to have 5% ethanol content - this is for environmental reasons. Ethanol is not very good for the fuel systems found on older cars and it will deteriorate rubber hoses and seals, so you actually want ethanol-free fuel for a Classic car.
Super Unleaded doesn't actually contain any ethanol and it isn't required to by law like regular unleaded is. For that reason alone, I would actually recommend super unleaded in any classic"