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[nikkai]

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You can have mine if you want ;-)

Is your one!!! a body that would be exploited by women ?

[frankiesays]

You can have mine if you want ;-)

Is your one!!! a body that would be exploited by women ?

If only Nikkai! ;-)

[East Point]

Has anyone here had their car break down recently caused by contaminated petrol? Hubby has just had that problem and is now faced with what we expect will be a hefty bill. He filled his tank up at a local supermarket - £40-worth of fuel, which is now wasted. Can't name the supermarket on an open forum but, needless to say, he wont be returning there. Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem recently.

[boatbuilder]

There's nothing wrong with quoting facts on here EP providing you are confident or have proven that the fuel came from the one you mention. Have you made the supermarket aware of it and if so what did they have to say?
Also, what is/was the nature of the 'contamination' and was it petrol as opposed to diesel?

[nikkai]

I have avoided supermarket fuel for some time now as I found that cheap was not as cheap as appeared.
I did my own experiment when after doing my accounts I noticed that I had spent quite a bit on fuel.
I put a flow meter on the car and then recorded the milage, I used the "cheap petrol" for 500 mile then drove around until the tank was virtually empty and then repeated the 500 mile test with "preimium fuel" the results were quite different and the car used more cheap fuel than the "good" stuff. I also checked the spark plugs for colour and markings, and found that the cheap fuel left deposits.
I can dig out the figures when I get home but to me the cost of servicing and usage showed that the "good fuel" ran out at better value for money.

I never fill up at supermarkets now, and use the preimium fuels when ever I can.

[East Point]

There's nothing wrong with quoting facts on here EP providing you are confident or have proven that the fuel came from the one you mention. Have you made the supermarket aware of it and if so what did they have to say?
Also, what is/was the nature of the 'contamination' and was it petrol as opposed to diesel?

The supermarket was Morrisons BB. Hubby will make the supermarket filling station aware of it tomorrow. Not sure yet what the contamination was until hubby goes to see the mechanic tomorrow but hubby reckons it must be either oil or water. All the mechanic did was bring the car back into our drive and left a note saying what the problem was so we haven't spoken to him yet to see what caused the contamination.

[frankiesays]

I was talking to the guy at our local motorcycle workshop recently and he told me the bikes they sell are not covered under warranty if the owner uses supermarket fuel.

I seem to recall Morrisons had a problem a couple of years back and had to pay lots of compensation for damaged engines - anyone else remember that?

[East Point]

I was talking to the guy at our local motorcycle workshop recently and he told me the bikes they sell are not covered under warranty if the owner uses supermarket fuel.

I seem to recall Morrisons had a problem a couple of years back and had to pay lots of compensation for damaged engines - anyone else remember that?

Well Frankie, that just proves that supermarket fuel is dodgy. I've heard too that folk from Tesco have had contaminated fuel too - read it on a forum I found by Googling.

[frankiesays]

I've been reading up on this problem on a couple of forums and everybody seems to have their own opinion on it but the general consensus is that all the fuel comes out of the same bunker at the refinery irrespective of who the end customer is but once the tanker is filled the various "special additives" that each fuel brand would say makes their fuel better is added and it is at this point that the supermarket fuel becomes different as, presumably, it has less expensive additives in it. I don't know what would constitute a bad batch though, maybe this process of adding the additives has not been carried out correctly.

[East Point]

True, theres lots of different opinions on this Frankie but, just to be on the safe side, we wont be getting supermarket fuel any more.

[boatbuilder]

I was talking to the guy at our local motorcycle workshop recently and he told me the bikes they sell are not covered under warranty if the owner uses supermarket fuel.

How could they prove the source?

I seem to recall Morrisons had a problem a couple of years back and had to pay lots of compensation for damaged engines - anyone else remember that?

I seem to recall something about it. However, I believe I have read at some time of similar problems with 'branded' fuel as well.

[East Point]

Well hubby went and asked the petrol station worker if they had received any other complaints but, as expected, she said 'no'. Nothing we can do now as we haven't got the receipt anyway. We'll just have to put it all behind us and forget about it.

[funkychick]

They must serve hundreds a day wouldn't other people be having a problem after filling up at Morrisons - it wouldn't just affect one car? Why don't you put a letter in the journal asking if anyone else has experienced it you needn't name it just say a local supermarket because you shouldn't have to foot a big bill if it wasn't your fault

I do remember a problem a few years ago which must have come to light when lots of people complained

[East Point]

Hubby just wants an end to it all fc. As for putting a letter in the Journal, he says there's no way he'd do that. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[AyB]

[frankiesays]

I was talking to the guy at our local motorcycle workshop recently and he told me the bikes they sell are not covered under warranty if the owner uses supermarket fuel.

How could they prove the source?

I seem to recall Morrisons had a problem a couple of years back and had to pay lots of compensation for damaged engines - anyone else remember that?

I seem to recall something about it. However, I believe I have read at some time of similar problems with 'branded' fuel as well.

Apparently it is very easy for a refinery to prove the source so I guess if a company are trying to get out of paying a repair bill they will be happy to spend a few quid proving liability.