Did I get V power?

tom_e · 11 Dec 2015 at 09:45

I use whichever premium stuff is available usually V Power as Shell is just down the road, my bike is an American import so probably mapped to run on sewer water but the amount of fuel I use means it costs next to nothing to use the fancy stuff.

Uncle_Gravy · 11 Dec 2015 at 13:57

Brocky120 said:
I found that you can convert RON 95 into RON 99 if you put the nozzle up your **** hole and make it come out of your mouth, of course, you can turn RON 99 into RON 95 by reversing the process.

I had a little giggle at that.

NVP · 11 Dec 2015 at 16:42

pepsilol said:
For a year I ran normal fuel in the Aston. Then like 4 months ago I randomly stuck some Vpower in and the car crapped itself with reduced engine power warnings. Restarted the car and it was fine. Stuck with 95 Ron since then.

Sensors/electronics probably got so excited that a poor person was no longer driving it that it had a mini internal light parade

loltim · 11 Dec 2015 at 17:54

cheapest 95 goes in my s2k

Clarkey · 11 Dec 2015 at 18:10

I've had bad Vpower before too, usually use Momentum99 because I'm tight. Few weeks ago put Vpower in because it was more convenient, immediately started running like a dog and misfiring heavily on boost. I thought the car had broke and even called my local friendly Silvia nerd @ Doritech for help. Turns out it was the fuel though, ran it out and filled with it's usual diet of Tesco Value high octane and it was back to normal.
Seemingly it happens more than you would think, Shell in a small town doesn't sell much Vpower because the price is loltastic, it gets stale and contaminated over time and problems ensue?

NVP · 11 Dec 2015 at 20:11

Can't say I've ever noticed a bad fill up of vpower in 5 years of putting it in the 5, but I'm sure the main garages I use are pretty popular so maybe you're right with 5he stale comment, although I would have thought they'd have monitoring equipment or periodic checks etc to prevent that.

acemastr · 11 Dec 2015 at 20:13

If your car doesn't state 97/99 then it won't make a blind bit of difference, an N/A Clio isn't going to benefit from it at all.

melchy · 11 Dec 2015 at 21:14

acemastr said:
If your car doesn't state 97/99 then it won't make a blind bit of difference, an N/A Clio isn't going to benefit from it at all.

Except the label next to the filler cap on my Clio 182 quite clearly states to use 98RON or above. I assume the 197/200 is the same.

Bluecube · 11 Dec 2015 at 23:18

Petrol? You poor people. I only put 25 year old whisky in my motor. Yah!

red eye · 12 Dec 2015 at 16:33

acemastr said:
If your car doesn't state 97/99 then it won't make a blind bit of difference, an N/A Clio isn't going to benefit from it at all.

unless it's head has been skimmed so many times that the c/r has gone up