http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6405701.stm
i usually try to fill up with Tesco's 99 RON fuel - in fact i did so in edmonton, north london, on saturday.
anyone experienced any problems? not so from me - car pulled liked a train as usual. it really loves that high octane stuff
from reading about other motorists' horror stories it seems the problems are related to lamnda sensors. just as well i don't have one then!
if there really is dodgy fuel about then i think BX's should be ok because of their more primitive management systems, but i'd be interested to know if there have been any problems form anyone?
alleged 'dodgy' supermarket fuel in the south east
i used to fill at 'Save' petrol stations in Wallasey about 8 years ago and that fuel was hideous! Its a very rare occasion that i will fill up on supermarket fuel as in my nec of the woods there aren't many super markets with fuel and there about the same price as the Shell which is inveriably very close! I have noticed in the past a difference between shell diesel and diesel extra, not not really much difference in using super market fuel ('Save' aint a suppermarket, its just naff fuel!)
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So, this whole dodgy petrol issue, it's an interesting problem! The fuel originates possibly from Shell Holland but one thing that is known (by me at least) is that all the fuel is stored and distributed by Royal Vopak (a netherlands company based out of Rotterdam) which fortunately the other halfs dad works for! Seems that Tesco and Morrisons have the same local tanker distributor and they've started cleaning there tanks with something different! And the result is that transfer pipes are breaking down and putting silicon into the fuel (bet you didn't already know that ), the silicon is covering the lambda sensors. Some lambda sensors (4 wire sensors) aren't being effected and these sensors are heated so it is assumed that the heating element is burning off the silicon, I suspect this is only effecting Siemens 2/3wire sensors as PSA seem to have a thing for using Siemens at the moment!
Thing about it is, they reckon only 8 tanks worht of contaminated fuel went out, and if you dont have a cat (or motronic 3.1?) then you wont have a problem (BX wise). The new problem is everyone is sueing everyone, but the suppliers and retailers all know whose fault it is but there is so much cross sueing no one is aloud to say anything! Generally, i wouldn't worry about it in your BX and if you don't already have problems, you wont!
Thing about it is, they reckon only 8 tanks worht of contaminated fuel went out, and if you dont have a cat (or motronic 3.1?) then you wont have a problem (BX wise). The new problem is everyone is sueing everyone, but the suppliers and retailers all know whose fault it is but there is so much cross sueing no one is aloud to say anything! Generally, i wouldn't worry about it in your BX and if you don't already have problems, you wont!