Anyone use Momentum 99?

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Just wondering if anyone does and how it has affected your mpg?

As an experiment in October to see if it improved efficiency as Tesco claim (and any other positive side effects), I decided to do 1000 miles on it, so 4 tanks.

I am coming up to 900 miles and so far, my mpg has dropped from ~27 down to ~22. That roughly equates to 330 miles a tank before to 270 miles to a 54L (12.1 gallons) tank now.

Typically, in a week, I do a 6m urban commute 5 days a week and 75m motorway journey a week cruising at 4.5k revs. Other journeys vary, but I'd say the split between urban and motorway driving is 50/50. Tyres pressures checked every 2 or 3 weeks. 30mpg is the average for the Celica T Sport on mixed use so my short journeys, fast motorway driving and odd uses of lift probably makes 27 about right.

The only thing that's been done differently since the start is my MOT in mid November which my dad took it for and they put a petrol cleaner in (and charged him extortionately for)to clean up the emissions or something.
 
Seems to make a big difference in my 197, i didnt want to believe it, but it does, and the people on some of the clio forums recommend using it too,
 
2L Laguna roughly break even, but figure that it's probably better for the car and means filling up slightly less.
 
I don't understand it either, but I've tried it on a 3 or 4 occasions and everytime have got worse with the super unleaded, only thing I haven't done is give it 3 or 4 tanks to see if that makes any difference.

I've only tried Shell VPower, not Tesco, but I gather they're the same thing pretty much.
 
It's the only petrol I use in my mr2 turbo. Haven't used any other super for a decent length of time to compare, don't have an mpg gauge either.
 
i only put vpower in the gti6
i put 95 in once and it was noticably rougher sounding. looked in the manual, turns out it recommends 97. Whaddya know.
 
lol. I've heard of Thorney enough times, but nothing related to mpg claims; may have to do a search to see what I'm missing...

On a serious note, a couple of people on the Celica forums have mentioned that mpg decreases during cold weather anyway, which I admit I wasn't aware of, especially with regards to Momentum, which apparently is better for warmer conditions. The ECU also has to get used to the new fuel. I suspected that from the start, and it seems plausible, hence deciding on 1000 miles. Not sure what to do for now, keep using it with hopes of a gradual improvement, or just go back to regular (premium) unleaded...
 
It's down to how you drive:
If you go pedal to the metal everywhere, then cold weather and high octane fuel *may* give you more power and inherently, the opportunity to use more fuel.

If you drive at a consistent acceleration and speed, cold weather and high octane fuel *may* give you the opportunity to use less fuel to achieve the same thing.
 
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