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The Pub For General Automotive Related Talk |
View Poll Results: Where to get petrol? | |||
BP | 102 | 42.50% | |
SHELL | 42 | 17.50% | |
CALTEX | 45 | 18.75% | |
MOBILE | 21 | 8.75% | |
SAFEWAY | 12 | 5.00% | |
OTHER | 18 | 7.50% | |
Voters: 240. You may not vote on this poll |
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30-05-2007, 04:49 PM | #61 | ||
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In the last 2 months, diesel around Bathurst was $1.35 at BP and $1.28 at Caltex! No competition!
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30-05-2007, 06:38 PM | #62 | |||
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30-05-2007, 06:39 PM | #63 | ||
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Always from APCO, if I am out of town then BP
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31-05-2007, 09:01 AM | #64 | ||||
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of course, you're not going to believe it because it doesn't affect your car, but i've seen this happen many times in the past in mine and other people's cars. not 2 engines that come out of the factory line are identical. if you think they are all identical, you're just showing your lack of knowledge on the matter. sure, there are people that use premium for no real reason when their car would most probably run equally as good on normal unleaded, but there are a lot of cars out there that NEED to run on premium for good performance, despite what the manufacturer says. |
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31-05-2007, 08:16 PM | #65 | ||
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anything besides Caltex for my bike seems to give it a drop in power, a notiecable one too...
I dont like using Shell fuel.. bike hates it, but cars seem to like/love it its funny how that works.. |
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04-06-2007, 05:28 PM | #66 | |||
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04-06-2007, 05:54 PM | #67 | ||
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Mobil 98octane 8000
My Focus dislike 0-power and your not my mate...TeeHee What a guess which 2 I'm talking about?
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07-06-2007, 08:23 PM | #68 | ||
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unrated question in this thread but what day you buy Petrol?
I buy Wednesday morning before it sky rockets :( |
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08-06-2007, 12:48 AM | #69 | ||
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And it all depends on what fuel you get, as in, when the fuel in the tanks at the servo run low and you fill up, you tend to get a bad batch of fuel, as well with other times.
I've been doing my own experiment with my car Ed 94 Xr6, for different fuels in Caltex/Safeway over the past 3months and these are my results (also i don't gun it unless i record it down) 1.Regular Unleaded 72ltrs - 400min to 450max kms 2. Vortex Premium 72ltrs - 450min to 550max kms 3. Vortex Premium 98 72ltrs - 400min to 460max kms As I said i've been recording these figures and using a mean for all of them for 3months, and from what I assume, the vortex 98 gives alot more kick when you want it, but higher octane thus more fuel consumption hence lower k's than the premium. Anyway I thougt i'd share my little experiant with you guys/gals n tell me what you think - Ash
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09-06-2007, 02:52 PM | #70 | ||
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11-06-2007, 12:53 PM | #71 | |||
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11-06-2007, 02:17 PM | #72 | ||
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I use V-Power but would love to use V-Power Racing but it is 10 mins drive away,
would love to see it is available in all Shell servo rather than a selected few. |
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