Have you been affected by the petrol shortages?

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Re: Have you been affected by the petrol shortages?

Post by P_G » Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:05 am

Only donwside I have seen is it produces fractionally loss torque in engine performance terms and maybe doesn't have all the cleaning agents V-Power does. I've always likened Momentum to Kronenburg and V-Power to Stella, the former is great for a top night out but the latter is wife beater! Now if only there were a fuel similar to Viru in my metaphoric scale and I'd have the best of both worlds.

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Re: Have you been affected by the petrol shortages?

Post by wolfgang » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:15 pm

Finally got a tankful of Shell V-Power after 3 weeks of BP Ultimate. Boy, what a difference! The car is much more lively, sounds better and goes better.
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Re: Have you been affected by the petrol shortages?

Post by stu » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:58 pm

wolfgang wrote:Finally got a tankful of Shell V-Power after 3 weeks of BP Ultimate. Boy, what a difference! The car is much more lively, sounds better and goes better.
??? Has there still been shortages around you? What part of the country's that Wolfgang?

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Re: Have you been affected by the petrol shortages?

Post by rs4blacked » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:25 pm

stu wrote:
wolfgang wrote:Finally got a tankful of Shell V-Power after 3 weeks of BP Ultimate. Boy, what a difference! The car is much more lively, sounds better and goes better.
??? Has there still been shortages around you? What part of the country's that Wolfgang?
I noticed couple days ago local tesco had run out of diesel
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Re: Have you been affected by the petrol shortages?

Post by wolfgang » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:56 am

Surrey borders. Two Shell garages near me have actually closed down (could be for refurbishment). That might be why they were not getting any fuel in.
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Re: Have you been affected by the petrol shortages?

Post by yorkie » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:37 pm

Still no V Power at my local garage, starting to wonder if there is more to this than just the recent shortage as the next ones in either direction have it.

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Re: Have you been affected by the petrol shortages?

Post by PetrolDave » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:41 pm

wolfgang wrote:Surrey borders. Two Shell garages near me have actually closed down (could be for refurbishment). That might be why they were not getting any fuel in.
The Shell garage in Chandlers Ford has been closed since autumn last year for refurbishment and isn't due to open until June/July.

I think lots of Shell garages are being refurbished - well they've got to spend their obscene profits somehow to avoid having to declare how much money they are actually making...
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Re: Have you been affected by the petrol shortages?

Post by RIV » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:12 pm

I live in east Horsley near Guildford, shell garage near me has a plentiful supply even during the fuel problems, guess it's because it's full of old codgers, mind you Sean right Phillips is often in the shell garage with his mat grey range rover vogue lording it up on a bit of v power

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