Fuel up/down again

[TW]Fox;21892675 said:
Sounds like its broken.
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Sounds like you're wrong, it's never liked supermarket fuel


Draeger said:
My local stations are a Tesco and a Shell. Shell is the first one that you pass heading into town from the motorway, the Tesco, brand new and been open for a few weeks is about 300 yards further down the road. The prices for both petrol and diesel at both have been up and down like a tarts knickers over the last few weeks, presumably the brand new Tesco is giving the Shell station it tight and Shell are responding in kind. 141.2 for the black smelly stuff and 136.4 for petrol.

Just grabbed 7x 5p vouchers on the bay for £4.80. :)
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Shell's policy, although I can't remember the distance, is, that if it is within x miles (I think 2) of a supermarket, it has to price match.
 
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Can't believe people are getting Diesel for 139.9 and i'm still having to pay 141.9p for regular petrol!!
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The usual premium in diesel means we are possibly importing Diesel from India believe it or not, a higher grade complex came online in March.
Owned by the same company that bought Stanlow refinery which can handle imports, I dont know if it already gone ahead but I believe they planned to sell here. Stanlow is connected to Coryton, Essex.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...shortage-may-put-energy-security-at-risk.html
 
[TW]Fox;21893146 said:
It's not worth the bother buying them off Ebay for 5p a litre, especially as Tesco generally seem to be 1-2p a litre more than the cheapest suppliers in the area anyway.
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They were much better when you could stack 3 and get 15p off a litre. 5p off a litre is only £2.50 a tank.
 
The X5 tow beast costs has a 95l tank, 2 weeks ago I went through a whole tank for 5 days on the trot, glad I'm not paying the bills.
 
Lucero said:
Shell's policy, although I can't remember the distance, is, that if it is within x miles (I think 2) of a supermarket, it has to price match.
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If they do have such a policy, they don't apply it in Watford. At the Dome Roundabout there is an Asda, a Sainsburys and a Shell petrol station and the Shell has been consistently 1-2p a litre more than Asda and Sainsburys for as long as I can remember.
 
[TW]Fox;21895080 said:
lol

There is a sensor in the front bumper, it makes the car run rough if it views a Tesco or Sainsburys forecourt obviously.
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Quite, that's why mutiple BMW dealers have failed to diagnose the problem that it's consistently had for 60k miles, yet, every time i run through 2 or 3 tank cycles of shell, the issues disappears, completely.

Of course, in your infinite wisdom and knowledge, I'll await your diagnosis. :)
 
Lucero said:
Quite, that's why mutiple BMW dealers have failed to diagnose the problem that it's consistently had for 60k miles, yet, every time i run through 3 tank cycles of shell, the issues disappears, completely.

Of course, in your infinite wisdom and knowledge, I'll await your diagnosis. :)
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So why is nobody elses 530d broken when it runs on fuel from a supermarket?

Just more stories from Lucero.
 
Lucero said:
Quite, that's why mutiple BMW dealers have failed to diagnose the problem that it's consistently had for 60k miles, yet, every time i run through 2 or 3 tank cycles of shell, the issues disappears, completely.

Of course, in your infinite wisdom and knowledge, I'll await your diagnosis. :)
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Begs the question - why do you still use it?

If my car ran like a bag of spanners on a particular fuel, I wouldn't use it, rather than do 60k miles on it whilst putting the odd few tanks of another fuel in that apparently makes it run perfectly.
 
[TW]Fox;21895634 said:
So why is nobody elses 530d broken when it runs on fuel from a supermarket?

Just more stories from Lucero.
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I'm more than happy for you to look at it, can't you diagnose it for me?

Tesco is far far more convenient for me than Shell, and as it only happens at 70ish mph, it doesn't bother me most of the time

EDIT: First search yielded this, although they never get around to saying what, if anything, is the fix. For me though, changing fuel does stop the hiccup. I'm on my 2nd EGR valve under replacement too.

http://www.bmwland.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=129552
 
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Lucero said:
Quite, that's why mutiple BMW dealers have failed to diagnose the problem that it's consistently had for 60k miles, yet, every time i run through 2 or 3 tank cycles of shell, the issues disappears, completely.

Of course, in your infinite wisdom and knowledge, I'll await your diagnosis. :)
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Just use shell fuel then?
 
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