Is BP Ultimate as good as Shell VPower?

My nearest petrol station is BP, and I have been running my Mercedes 190e 2.0 on Ultimate. Would I benefit by seeking out a Shell station and using V-Power?

Supermarket or premium fuel for my first car?

I've just been given my first car - a 1998 Ford Fiesta non-turbo diesel. I'm the fifth owner. My dad says that I should always stick the best fuel possible in my car because, having done 200K miles, it...

Which fuel?

I will shortly be picking up a brand new Skoda Fabia vRS. Is there any risk filling it up with Shell V-Power right from its near-empty state upon collection? A couple of Fabias ago I did this and within...

Supermarket diesel?

I own a Toyota Corolla Verso 2.2 D4D. The Toyota dealer recommended that I not run the car on diesel purchased from supermarkets (do you agree with him?). Also, that I use an injector cleaner once very...

Why is fuel more expensive at motorway service stations than at high street supermarkets?

I recently purchased diesel fuel from Messrs Road Chef via their Strensham North outlet located upon the M5 at £1.439 per litre. Incidentally the fuel purchased was 10.01 litres, which at £1.439 should...

Delivery amounts at the pumps

This is a question to you and your readers. I have noticed recently that it seems to be impossible to put the desired amount (by price) of diesel into my vehicle at more than one local filling station....

Why don't motorway service areas display which fuel brands they sell?

Advance signs for motorway service areas display the location, operator, main and subsidiary providers and facility icons, but not the fuel brand, which is very important for many drivers with fuel payment...

Supermarket Diesel?

My brother has a '10 van that has been running rough, loss of power etc. He returned it to the dealers and they have told him the roughness is due to him using Supermarket diesel (in this case from Tesco's),...

Why aren't fuel pumps designed so that nozzles can't be replaced wrongly?

Can anyone confirm that all petrol nozzles at a fuel station will also fit in the diesel holder of the pump? Around eight months ago I filled up at a supermarket with £60 of what I thought was diesel....

Are petrol companies adding 10 per cent methanol to their fuels?

Arriving in the small village of Wheaton Aston by narrowboat, I was shocked to find that the garage there had stopped selling petrol at the turn of the year. His reasoning and that of several other small...