C4llyT

Oh I swear by Shell for the guaranteed quality over Tesco, but Tesco has pay@pump

LHD220Turbo

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you lazy git!

RWD_cossie_wil

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Lots of independant tests have found it to be a noticeable amount better, wil lhave to dig out that Perfomance ford fuel test, results were amazing, std 95 ron fuel was approx 505BHP, tescos 99ron was abour 515BHP, BP ultimate was about 526BHP and V power about 534BHP IIRC, they ran a T4 8 injector engine on it on the dyno back to back, and advanced the ignition to make best use of the fuels

cossiegreg1

imo what do tesco know about fuel? the exact same as shell know about groceries and trollies. shell for fuel. tesco for food.

C4llyT

So why don't they do a Tesco Value petrol then....

LHD220Turbo

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they do, its 90 Ron, then they give you club card points for a rebuild

blacky.

tescos 99 is eco-etanol so needs anteratons to the timing to get the best out of it but as a stop gap while there is no v power it would be fine

i tryed the v power in the B10 once & got crap mpg i have been useing bp super but as its 7p a L more than tesco i tryed that & got 170miles out of Ł30 & thats not bad for a 3.2 n/a bus

turbozvh

hold on i thought v power was 97 ron same as esso and bp

captiva

If you go the other way and put in a higher than 99 RON say 100 or 104 (like racing fuel) does it give you more power because the ECU recognizes the higher octane OR do you have to remap the ECU to tell it that it is a higher octane and therefore will give more power?

Mark_

i use tesco 99ron fuel,

cossie604

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LHD220Turbo

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v power is 99 rated fuel

TurboShed

After reading 1000,000,000,000 threads like this on Passionford over the years, I use only Vpower or Tesco 99

turbozvh

i think ill be only usingv power from now on then got a mfi erst should i advance the timing a little as it was set up on 97 ron

rapidcossie

There is a thread on MLR saying pretty much the opposite of this one

m_nettleship

octane booster is only 0.1,,,0.2 etc though isent it. if is a 1 ron octane booster it means 0.1,, cud be wrong.

sweetpea

fpsml

foreigneRS

of course it is - when tested. but how do they achieve that 99 RON? some cheaper fuels may get it by additives that do not last long in storage so by the time you use it, it may no longer be 99

i also use tesco for fuel, paying for it on a tesco credit card and get loads of clubcard points. these can be used for loads of things at 4x the value of vouchers that you get (e.g. i used eurotunnel in march and used Ł40 of vouchers to pay for a Ł160 crossing )

rapidcossie

As far as I know V power is the only fuel that is specially formulated from the refinary.

All other super/99's are normal fuel with additives.

foreigneRS

there you go then. most of you with old fords do not have management that can do that automatically, so you won't get a noticeable difference

mk1_orion_boy

I've gotta say although my car which has a VW 1.8T engine which runs on 95 fuel all day long only feels better with Tesco 99! I've tried everything else, V Power, Ultimate, 97 ron and don't seem to feel anything but with Tesco stuff it pulls so much better plus you get clubcard points!