i just got ass raped for petrol

philmots · Jul 27, 2006

Filling up the cup with bp's ultimate, it clciks off and i check the price......... £49 quid!!! 1.09.9p a litre.. bloodyhell

my poor tea towel holder

kully · Jul 27, 2006

lol..................plus it wont last long :race:

Boroboy182 · Jul 27, 2006

101.9 were i am for optimax yesterday,usually 40 quid from empty to choc full.youve been had.

UncleGrumpy · Jul 27, 2006

Ultimate is 101.9 where i used to go, found a Shell garage nearby with opti at the same price .

Lam7r · Jul 27, 2006

philmots said:
Filling up the cup with bp's ultimate, it clciks off and i check the price......... £49 quid!!! 1.09.9p a litre.. bloodyhell

my poor tea towel holder

That coupled with the fact in recent tests BP ulimate proved to be no better than normal 95 ron and lagged quite far behind Optimax and Tesco in performance tests. I cant understand how BP can charge so much. In warrington BP U. is 1.05.9 i think and Optimax is 98.9 lst time i filled up.

cliobritt · Jul 27, 2006

does 98 make a difference?

philmots · Jul 27, 2006

Its awful feeling!! im going to drive it so slowly to make it last at least 2 weeks haha!!!

ive run optimax, bpu, and sainsburys super plus and this ultimate feels better than any the other two!!! even the sainsburys felt better than optimax!

think ill try optimax again give it another chance because in everything else ive ran its made lots of differenc!

Leeshez · Jul 27, 2006

Petrol is a ripe off.

Daz · Jul 27, 2006

BP Ultimate is 105.9p round me now.. but, it gives me better fuel consumption so it doesn't work out that much more expensive than normal unleaded (which is 97.9p)

Gareth · Jul 27, 2006

£49 i'd be f**king fuming.

Daz · Jul 27, 2006

Mine's always £49 - £51 in the Williams..

If I let it go right down, anyway!

(50l tank)

JR · Jul 27, 2006

usualy run on sainsburys super, 97.9 round here

Nez · Jul 27, 2006

I had to fill up with BPU last week £1.05.9! She hated it, the ride was rough as fook. She's been run on Optimax since birth, Does it confuse the ECU if you change petrol? Think I've seen something on here about it, or could be wrong.

Daz · Jul 27, 2006

Ah, See... Optimax did nothing for me in my Williams - felt no difference. Ultimate seemed much better - and I don't think it's all in my head either.. heheh.

Add that to Optimax being a 20mile round trip to get.. Ultimate won..

Alan · Jul 27, 2006

Justin-172 said:
usualy run on sainsburys super, 97.9 round here

Same matey....

Munson · Jul 27, 2006

I have found overall, over 18 months, that Ultimate seems smoother with better response. Optimax gives more of a growl. The only time I used 95 I got an emissions light on for 2 days until it was flushed out with Optimax.

Blue4Ever · Jul 28, 2006

I just paid £37 to fill her up, pretty much from the red.

dick · Jul 28, 2006

Daz said:
Mine's always £49 - £51 in the Williams..

If I let it go right down, anyway! (50l tank)

50l in all clios mate

john.med · Jul 28, 2006

BP made 7.3 Billion US dollars in the first quarter of this year. That's $55,000 every MINUTE!

Makes ya think...

The Hoff · Jul 28, 2006

Lam7r said:
That coupled with the fact in recent tests BP ulimate proved to be no better than normal 95 ron and lagged quite far behind Optimax and Tesco in performance tests. I cant understand how BP can charge so much. In warrington BP U. is 1.05.9 i think and Optimax is 98.9 lst time i filled up.

Which tests?

The tests i've seen had BPU and SO at pretty much level pegging.

philmots · Jul 28, 2006

i cant speak for optimax at the moment as had a bad batch i think but the bpu seems to have a lot of low down pull...

Gray · Jul 28, 2006

Justin-172 said:
usualy run on sainsburys super, 97.9 round here

Same around here aswell....

Kneel · Jul 28, 2006

john.med said:
BP made 7.3 Billion US dollars in the first quarter of this year. That's $55,000 every MINUTE!

Makes ya think...

not BP thats taking all your money, its the government mate. LPG is half the price because the government like it being better for the environment and radically reduced the taxes on it...
I'm waiting for the renault push bike, much cheaper

DaveJwxm · Jul 28, 2006

i just stick a fiver in wen its nearly on empty lol

Dubai182 · Jul 28, 2006

I got raped last night too!!!!!

I filled up for the sum total of 65 DHS (9.80 pounds)

:rasp:

Ahh the joys of living in Dubai

W3STY · Jul 28, 2006

I run the ph-quick on good old standard 95 stuff and never have a problem. I tried Optimax and Ultimate and can't see any real difference. It didnt even make any difference to fuel economy.

nockmeister · Jul 28, 2006

Shell made £1.5 million profit an hour last from the latest figuires

domtheone · Jul 28, 2006

But none of that is from the UK petrol pump though....

Government w*%kers

gazcaddy · Jul 28, 2006

I usually use optimax and get about 37mpg, the last time i filled up i used tesco 99ron and the trip computer is saying 32mpg. A big difference considering as its the same journeys all the time.

I think optimax will be going in it next time

chiefsilverback · Jul 28, 2006

You are hugely unlikely to get a noticeable difference when you change fuel in terms of increased/decreased power etc... Over time Opti and Ultimate will return better fuel efficiency and Opti is much better for your engine.

The fact that the service interval on the cars is 18 months suggests that they are not race tuned, precision engineered units. They are built to run day in day out on whatever fuel you put in.

Evo ran a big test on fuels a while back and they ran each fuel in for days before putting the cars on a dyno and the differences were a few bhp/ft lb.

Steve2004 · Jul 28, 2006

Shibber said:
I run the ph-quick on good old standard 95 stuff and never have a problem.

Same here. Too poor to use super unleaded.

blink172 · Jul 28, 2006

In this age of being raped by the government at the petrol pump with the petrol pump, optimax giving the extra MPG over others works for me.

Any performance gains, real or imagined is a bonus. Plus is doesn't idle like it was tuned by John Deere.

chiefsilverback · Jul 28, 2006

I love the fact that in time of ever increasing oil prices etc... BP went out of their way to help the consumer by releasing that 105 Octane race fuel at £2.50 per litre!!!

jayxx83 · Jul 28, 2006

I never really put more than £20 in at any one time due to not wanting to weigh the car down too much, you never know when youre going to need the weight advantage lol! Only fill it up if im on a long motorway cruise.

TheJesus · Jul 28, 2006

must say, that is expensive, although I cant say I approve of the garages method of payment

Fred@BTM · Jul 28, 2006

i'm running tesco normal with my 5p off per litre voucher, gonna take 2 cars down and do both, as you're allowed upto 100l on one voucher!

Daniel · Jul 28, 2006

I use the most expensive i can find! (i have a company fuel card!

)

d_tyler · Jul 28, 2006

I use Ultimate aswell, i find the car runs better than on optimax. Last week was 99.9p a litre, and filled up last night and it had gone upto 105.9. Im not amused

Lam7r · Jul 28, 2006

ozzyo99 said:
Which tests?

The tests i've seen had BPU and SO at pretty much level pegging.

Cant remember now mate but i will have a look see if i can find it.

The test basically had about 6 cars, i can remember a VXR in there and maybe a FRS with some more. They fed the cars on the 3 different petrols and then had them Rolling roaded before (95 RON) and after on the 3 fuels.

They then publish the results and and bhp increases. The VXR had the biggest increase out of the lot IIRC and 1 car lost power with BP ultimate in it. Will try and find it again later and post the link

cliovicky · Jul 28, 2006

I jsut dont bother looking at the price anymore i just fill it up and hand over my switch card

i just got ass raped for petrol

dick

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