Fuel Saving Card?

digitalwolf

digitalwolf

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Hi there,

I'm putting in around £38-£40 of petrol a week in my car and just paying on my debit card.

I'd like to build my credit rating and after suffering from debit card fraud, i'm very cautious about where my debit card is used.

Any tips on credit cards where they will be used for fuel purchases? I was thinking of just going for a tesco clubcard and using the points on that.

I know Asda do 2p off a litre I think on their mastercard.

Any suggestions? Ta :cool:
 
Shell Mastercard and Shell Drivers Club card.

on the Mastercard it's something like 6p per litre cashback for the first 60 days, then it drops to 3% cashback. In addition the points you earn on the Drivers Club card are converted into cash and credited to your Shell Mastercard account.

The downside is you have to buy your petrol from Shell, however I find Shell to produce much higher quality petrol than many of the supermarkets, better for your engine and better MPG too!
 
Asda still do the mastercard but have now dropped it to 1p a litre off. Which is a waste of space.

You could use your debit card (well any card) at asda and morrisond at the pump so no gimp at the till will clone it..
 
Well the difference is only one or two MPG. I know that the fuel is all made in the same refineries (ie. if you buy in the northwest, regardless of whether it's BP or Shell or whoever, it'll be made at Shell's refinery in Stanlow) but the difference is in the blend and the additives. I'm not the only person who has noticed it, it was my dad that first pointed it out to me (he works in the petrolium industry) and I've verified it using my own MPG calculations over the years.

To be fair, you can achieve the same effect by running supermarket petrol and then 2 or 3 tanks of V-Power to clean out the crap.

Note that I'm not advocating running V-Power full time in a Corsa or anything like that here.
 
AFAIK they do not offer the shell citicard any more? i tried to look for it last month but it was gone :(
 
Kappa said:
but if you go through the citibank front page they only offer 2 credit cards now? maybe its a redundant page you found?

edit - just found it actually goes through to application! weird!
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Yep seems to work - I got the link from the Shell site

J
 
Probably better just to get an amex platinum cashback card and just use that for petrol purchases.

5% for the first 3 months, then up to 1.5% after.
 
Lum said:
Shell Mastercard and Shell Drivers Club card.
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Thats what I've got.

Not fussed that I have to use Shell as its the same price as the supermarkets around here, plus I stick to a single supplier as I use 98+ Octane and the internets told me that mixing super unleadeds was a bad idea due to the additives reacting with each other?

Plus the real reason- a desk covered in crappy plastic Ferraris and a V-Power cap that makes me look like I'm on a day trip from the special school :p
 
Ahh yes, I have about 40 of those bloody Ferraris, anyone want to buy them?

(Note to mods: This is a rhetorical question, not a for sale post)
 
I do the citicard+drivers club thing, afaik it is the best option, effectively 4% back on all fuel. I use scary amounts so it adds up very nicely for me.
 
OT, but the really funny thing is that the poster on the front door of my local shell garage, says something like "Shell, powering ferrari" or something like that, with a big picture of an alfa romeo. Surely, people who use a petrol station are sometimes likely to be car literate, and they could at least have picked one of a million pictures of a ferrari?

so im on topic, i use a morrisons card thing aswell, get a fiver occasionally. im considering getting a shell card though, just having turned 18, it might be a good idea to get a bit of a credit rating like.
 
Hmmm interesting idea, I might get a credit card to use for fuel, build up my credit rating, but get cheaper fuel at the same time. I'd only use my debit card so i might give this a whirl actually.

So we think the Shell cards are the best? Thats good enough for me, the Shell garages near me are always the same price as the supermarkets so thats a winner for me! I might look into an ASDA one though.
 
melbourne720 said:
Probably better just to get an amex platinum cashback card and just use that for petrol purchases.

5% for the first 3 months, then up to 1.5% after.
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yes, but you have to spend 5000 before you get off the 0.5% rate

overall the shell citi pays better i reckon - dont forget it also offers 1% against everything else - i switched from amex
 
Hmm, I might apply for this but I've already got 3 other credit cards!
Is the 3% cashback on fuel a timed promotion? Do you have to pay to be part of the Shell Driver's Club?

Oddly enough, Shell around here (SW4) is the cheapest of them all. Don't know why.
 
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