As reported in last weekend's motoring section (13th March), Honest John had a 'bad fill' of Shell.
Really & truly? How could he tell? What does he mean? What were the symptoms? This doesn't sound very scientific to me!
Perhaps he did more town driving than usual (so mpg was down) or the pump didn't fill the tank so full (mpg down again). Otherwise what did he mean?
I'd love to hear a bit more, if HJ is back from his hols.
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The only time I've ever had a 'bad fill' resulted in the fuel filter of my previously sweet-running Golf becoming hopelessly and utterly clogged over the course of the next 50 or so miles, and the idle jet getting bunged up such that the car would stall below around 1500 revs. That one was quite easy to diagnose ;)
Funnily enough, the supermarket (yes, I know, I know..) in questions denied all knowledge of letting their tanks run low, yet whilst I was on the forecourt one other motorist came in ranting about exactly the same thing. An AA engineer I spoke to said he'd been called out to the same station to empty unleaded from a forgetful owner's diesel VW, and was amazed when it came out like soup - he went over to the kiosk to find two more motorists in a slanging match with the manager over damage to their cars because of the same thing..
Last time I ever touched supermarket petrol.
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I believe in that. Methinks HJ would have had more to say about a fill like that than just 'bad'!
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I did, but I won't relate it here in case I send the swear filter into meltdown - I gather those things can be expensive ;)
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Last time I ever touched supermarket petrol.
Same thing happened to me after a steady diet of the stuff. Car would routinely stall with no warning at all. If any one is from St Albans, picture me at the Peahen turning right from Holywell Hill with the engine stuttering.
That was 1993. Haven't touched supermarket petrol since.
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I think you've got to be careful where you fill up. My daughter's car would not tick over and spluttered after filling up with non-branded petrol recently, once we filled up with a branded petrol it was fine. The change was too dramatic to be coincidental.
A friend of mine once filled her Honda up and it ran like the perverbial 'bag of nails'. It was only when she filled up elsewhere that it was OK. We later found out that the first filling station had had a delivery that day and the tanker driver had accidentally put some diesel in the petrol tank. Many people in the town were affected by it.
They say that all petrol comes from only one or two refineries in the country so it must all be the same. While this may be the case, it's what happens after it leaves the refinery that matters!
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As HJ is now back from holiday, I wonder whether he would be so kind as to enlighten us as to what he meant?
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