michaelro

Had to laugh last night.
While filling up at my local shell garage a 'Modified' Rover 25 pulled in and started filling up opposite.

I only noticed when he replaced the nozzle that he had put in £10 worth of Vpower.

I'm sure that will enable him to use all of the horsepower available from his 1.6....

ReggieMY99

lol, well the commercials from shell "promise" a cleaner engine and more hp

Matt_taylor

some people just prefer using it as its cleaner etc......

or picked up the wrong nozzle i done that before lol

EmEm

Some peeps do make me chuckle!! I only ever fill my car up to the max!! Can't see the point in puttng £10 in. Probably use that to get back home

davyboy

Didn't evo magazine only get mimimal improvement using the stuff anyway?

davyboy

Unfortunately there are people who own cars who don't have much money, get paid weekly, care about the environment and need to carefully budget.

Fantom

I can only imagine it makes a performance difference on a turbo car as you can advance the ignition more. Surely it doesn't do a lot for non turbo cars.

Dream Weaver

I only put £10 or £20 in at a time. I only do 1k miles a year so never need a lot of fuel and the thought of some ****** nicking my car with a full tank of fuel worries me.

As for the "1.6" comment, leave the bloke alone, you never know whats under the bonnet You would probably make the same comment about my 1.9, but then I would hand you your Scooby *** on a plate

Dream Weaver

Not quite true, mine is mapped for VPower and is NA.

EmEm

Opps, that shut me up!! I wasn't being funny, just saying I can never see the point in putting in a tenner here and there. It always lasts longer if you fill up and use it before putting in more..... Sorry if I offended anyone !!

davyboy

You never offended me, I'll blow £500 on fuel in just a few days

Just seeing the argument from both sides.

ARM-Scooby

so what, you have too much free time in your life if you comment on crap like this!

rossyboy

iTrader: (8)

£10 is a little extreme I agree, but if you fill your car right up, it is heavier and therefore slower and ironically uses more fuel

Bat-Fink

What I thought when I first read it.

jaytc2003

iTrader: (1)

and the point of this thread is.........

Bet you have never put in £10 worth of fuel.


whats wrong with £10. Bearing in mind its possibly a 1.6, that £10 will get more miles than £20 in the scoob. God I remember the days when I used to put a fiver in my car (when I was 18 and fuel was about 60=p per litre)

As for letting him use all the horsepower available, it doesnt matter if you have a full tank or nearly empty. If the fuel is the same then the power will be the same however the car could be slightly faster as it will be slightly lighter.

It could it be that the driver was a trainee F1 engineer and was fuelling the car up optimally for what he had to do? (unlikely I know)

superstar1

That's nothing, in the early eighties i can remember putting fifty pence worth of petrol in my Austin Allegro......i kid you not.

jaytc2003

iTrader: (1)

now that would make me laugh!!

saying that though, it would have probably given you half a tank assuming the tank hadnt rusted away

pslewis

I had to laugh the other day too ..... I saw some donkey in an Impreza who had wasted money on a Random Light Generator ( CockLink )!!

michaelro

Says the man who replies to this post....

He was about 18 and the 1.6 was being generous.

I've put a small amount of petrol in before - Re-Filled to the brim if I've 'Happened' to be passing the petrol station on my way out somewhere.

GazTheHat

I used to fill my lancia up with about £5-10 for the above reasons.

Abdabz

I used to put £2.50 in my 1.1 escort pop back in 1992/3... That was a gallon and I then got about 40 miles out of it - enough to drive round town pick up a 16year old slapper, go somewhere quiet, make a deposit, kick her out and drive home

mart360

As if i care. filled to the brim, i still get 500+ from a tank of fuel,

oh and its a turbo too


Mart

Dream Weaver

Whats age got to do with anything, and how do you know it was a 1.6?

I only fill my car up if going a long distance, otherwise I only put a max of £20 in as above to keep weight down, stop someone nicking it and ragging it for miles plus it doesn't seem as bad just putting £20 in, expecially if ot last a month as it does for me

PPPRob

Ahhhh thems were the days eh

Blueblaster

He was probably laughing at you too.

martx

Live & let live man!

Shark Man

The less fuel the better..better power to weight ratio

Fuel-surge-tastic

If you want a fuel to clean your engine, put in some toluene or some xylene, or the strongest paint thinner you can buy. Super stuff 99Ron doesn't burn any cleaner than 95Ron

superstar1

It was'nt the rust that was the problem, it was the square steering wheel....very confusing when approaching roundabouts, British technology at it's best

scoobtmart

i've put 29p worth of 4 star in my mk1 escort just to get the last mile home ohh the days of wonderful YTS wages.

stychey

dont be so sure its a 1.6 my mate has a rover 25 running a 2litre turbo tomcat engine with mods pushing out 270+bhp