Horrific Initial Experience with BP Fuel

[Shsoh]

Top up a full tank with BP Quantum 98 yesterday and started the dirve today. I have a 50 litre tank with the Pug 206. Upon reaching my office (20 km), the meter dropped to the next mark (about 10%)!!!. How can this happen since a Mobil 98 gives me about 13.8km/l?

 

Will continue to monitor and will report the final result here....

[Fyrestomp]

dun haf gd experience with BP neither..

[Totenkopfe]

Always pump BP95. No problem getting 13km/l. Got same experience as you when I pumped V-power. Car drink petrol like no body business. I think could be the detergents in the V-power cleaning the engine so drink more petrol.

[Shsoh]

Yes.... speaking of which I did notice a strange increase in responsiveness of the car.... or am I dreaming...?

[Hitman]

Hi there,

 

You driving a Pug 206 .... me driving a Pug 405.

 

Good to hear from a fellow Puggie.

 

Do join us for our meetups as we are seriously short of Pugs .......

[Icemanic]

hee... i prefer SPC98 for its economical value

is there really a diff in power when using V-power and RON98 fuel??

[Jman888]

actually from RON 98 of one brand to the same of another, shouldn't have such problem and the repsonsiveness should not change either, are u sure its not Psychological? unless u change from 92/95 to V-power, it is obvious of improve performance but increase consumption

 

by the way 13.8km/l is quite

Edited December 17, 2002 by Jman888

[Panda]

Upon reaching my office (20 km), the meter dropped to the next mark (about 10%)!!!. How can this happen since a Mobil 98 gives me about 13.8km/l?

 

Because never top up to really full. Once the auto-cut-off activates, pump attendant stops pumping. The difference could be as much as 2-3 litres. That translates to more than 20km difference before you see the needle starts to drop.

 

No panic.

[Shsoh]

Eh.... but I did remembered seeing the needle at max after topping up....

Strange, we'll see how next week....

[Jman888]

the needle doesn't proof anything i believe, whether it was just full or full with more top up, it still show at FULL. Like IceRain said, it makes a great different, normally the first mark is quite slow to reach but after u exceeded that, it can go all the way pretty fast

[Chris_ck]

Ya actually quite difficult to really gauge just after one time of usage. Maybe you have to take a few times and calculate the average

[Joengkh]

agree. My fuel guage don't really move for the first 100km. All this while using BP and not problem.

[Kianbeng]

ya I agree also. The best is to pump petrol ourselves. Then we will know how full is full.

 

[Nightchaser]

hee... i prefer SPC98 for its economical value

is there really a diff in power when using V-power and RON98 fuel??

 

Think that depends on the car make. I drive a Seat Ibiza 1.0 so it helps to pump V-power. However, I have experimented with pumping different quantites of V-power. I realised that it is better not to mix V-power with 95...else mileage will be bad and power is not there.

 

Actually V-power does not drink leh... my highest mileage of 17.7km/l was set on a full tank of V-power. (that was after 1/2 tank of V-power with 95

[Mojoe]

yup... i just learnt that now... dropped from V-Power to Shell 98 and then to Fusion 95... worse mileage on the 95..

 

switching back to V-Power to 'clean' the engine for now... actually with the extra point given to V-Power comapred to Shell98, it may be worthwhile to stick to it after all..

[RadX]

And u get that extra oomph!!! I only stick to V-power!

[Saaber]

Same here, i use V-power also.......

 

Give better mileage and power also....

[Shsoh]

Okay.... Result out for BP Quantum 98 on Pug 206 -> 11.18km/l.

No more BP for me...