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Always BP Ultimate at the track, I even bring 2x 20l fuel containers filled with it. I will go out of my way to get BP Ultimate, but will settle on the rare occasion for any 98 for daily driving.

Hey kong, haven't seen you in these parts for a while lol.

Good poll. I use whatever I can get, seems okay for a stockish skyline with stock tune. Need an option for that though...

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Yeah I've been busy working on the car, and the having periods of I really do not want to think about anything car wise, as I have things to do I've been putting off lol

I've been using BP Ultimate for the past 5 months or so. But noticing the petrol prices lately got me thinking more. Oddly the BP prices don't change at all, but the Shell closest to home has petrol dirt cheap now. So was wondering how much better really is BP Ultimate 98 vs Shell's 98 or Caltex's 98?

I've been paying $1.42 to $1.45 for my BP Ultimate for months now. The BP closest to me seems to be very stable on prices. However the Shell station has their 98 at $1.25 to $1.30 and thereabouts. I know it's only 15c, but it does add up.

Now I've heard alot of service stations get their fuels often from the same refineries. Thus Shell and Caltex could be in fact selling BP refined fuel. I've asked at the servo about this and the chick there wasn't able to help at all. But I'm sure someone knows something.

depends on what state you are in as to what fuel you are actually using. so you might not be actually using BP fuel at all. it may be shell or caltex. i can't remember what companies have refineries in which states. i'm pretty sure that QLD has a BP refinery. other than that i'm not overly sure.

Caltex 98 but want to tune for E85 when there are more places to get it.

Its only e70 at the moment, you wont have any warning when it changes unless you have a wideband or a flex fuel setup.

I paid 88.4cL last tank of Eflex.

http://media.gm.com/content/media/au/en/ne...2010/0826_eflex

Used to run on BP Ultimate, but changed to V-Power a few months ago when I moved house and shell was far closer. The car runs a thousand times better on V-Power, lots more response, no weird noises and better economy = win.

See that's the kind of thing I'm wondering myself, but due to other issues I'm having with the car right now, I won't be adding another gremlin by chaning fules just yet. Once I get that all sorted out, I think I might try Shell since they are way closer to home than BP and often cheaper too. There's just that feeling that regardless of where you go, how do you know what fuel you're getting. The shell near me could be using Caltex fuel or BP fuel. All I can do is contact the managers of the servos and ask who supplies their fuel perhaps :happy:

should have made the fuel station a multiple vote one cos i use both bp and shell

Good point. I'm not sure if I can edit it now though. Might ask an admin to see if they can make it multi choice.

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See that's the kind of thing I'm wondering myself, but due to other issues I'm having with the car right now, I won't be adding another gremlin by chaning fules just yet. Once I get that all sorted out, I think I might try Shell since they are way closer to home than BP and often cheaper too. There's just that feeling that regardless of where you go, how do you know what fuel you're getting. The shell near me could be using Caltex fuel or BP fuel. All I can do is contact the managers of the servos and ask who supplies their fuel perhaps :)

Good point. I'm not sure if I can edit it now though. Might ask an admin to see if they can make it multi choice.

there is a chance that they might not even know. the truck that turns up to fill up the tanks may be the same as their brand and they may pay the company they are branded, but it is simply shipped out from another brands refinery.

as for different brands giving different performance, etc, a lot of it can come down to the individual servos, as well as what day you get fuel. some servos tanks are in better condition that others. if you get fuel and the tanks have been recently refilled then there will be more crud floating around in the fuel as it hasn't had time to settle to the bottom. or if the tanks were filled the night before and you are 1 of the first people to get fuel in the morning then you may suck up some of the crap that has settled around the pick up and hasn't been sucked away yet.

i have noticed what appears to be different fuel economy from different fuels, if i go off how many kms i do for the gauge to get to a certain point, however once i actually calculate it properly it isn't much different because different pumps seem to fill up to a slightly different level, so if i get an extra 1 or 2L in the filler neck of the tank then i will get an extra 10 or 20kms out of the first 1/4 of a tank. however if you then change servos it can then make the last tank of fuel's economy look either really good or really bad (or the same) depending on how different it is at saying the tank is full.

ah crap, i just realised that i have to drive 400kms on the weekend and will need to get fuel before i go and it's the first weekend of the holidays so getting fuel is going to be a nightmare.

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