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Anyone tried it? (petrol or diesel)

Did you get an extra litre of mileage out of your tank?

...or did your landy run rough?

Havn't tried Shell Fuel Save but I reckon I get an extra 2mpg when I use BP Ultimate Deisel in my 300tdi Defender 90.

Know someone who has problems with there car on th petrol. Won't know until after the weekend when the fuel system is drained and cleaned,but it runs well on LPG but awful on petrol. It was ok before the stuff was used.

That'll be me then! Waiting for Stu....

Will post results but want to hear of others'. There are plenty of probs reported on other websites................

I just filled up with diesel today and will let you know of any problems.

Regards

Ross

did use shell optimax years ago with my astra. it did run faster with the better fuel
although added redex additive to freebie diesel and it ran rough as hell. wont be putting that in again thats for sure

guess it depend what motor its in. an older landie engine was designed to run on almost any standard fuel. new engines got tighter tolerances so maybe wont like 'fancy' fuel, prefer the normal stuff

did use shell optimax years ago with my astra. it did run faster with the better fuel
although added redex additive to freebie diesel and it ran rough as hell. wont be putting that in again thats for sure

guess it depend what motor its in. an older landie engine was designed to run on almost any standard fuel. new engines got tighter tolerances so maybe wont like 'fancy' fuel, prefer the normal stuff

pains me to say it, but Doug could be right. My surf is that old I can apparantly run it on chip fat oil and just change the fuel filter. I'm too scared to try and the smell of chips going along the m8 would drive me crazy lol

That'll be me then! Waiting for Stu....

Will post results but want to hear of others'. There are plenty of probs reported on other websites................

Oh right enough when I read your first post it makes sense!

new engines got tighter tolerances so maybe wont like 'fancy' fuel, prefer the normal stuff

Shell only tested this fuel on 'newer' cars - up to 5 years old (?)

Mines 14.

My Mums 6 yo Jazz didnt like it either, neither did a friends' diesel merc (R reg I think)....

lol, just to proove me wrong wonder what they have added to the fuel that new cars seem to like it but older car dont
just out of interest what car/engine have you got?

Cant remember all thats been checked/done/flushed/etc in the last 2 days, but the result is categorically, that there is nothing wrong with my engine and the fuel from Shell has caused the recent problems.

Interestingly we put some of the fuel drained out into a clean glass jar and there is a) a funny smell - bit like turpentine, and b) there is a bubble of something at the bottom of the jar - looks like something you see in a lava lamp....

My D1 V8 petrol/lpg is now purring like a pussy cat again  - cant wait to go for a run in the morning.

maybe not the fuel save thats the problem, maybe its a bad batch of fuel

That maybe so, but either way it was the fuel I bought from Shell. Thats down to them to sort out - cant believe its a bad batch of fuel cos problems have been reported from all over the country. More like a bad batch of their additive....

My D1 V8 petrol/lpg is now purring like a pussy cat again  - cant wait to go for a run in the morning.

You ain't wong! I heard it on friday nig when the guys dropped by on the way home. Fery nice car I have to say!

Has anyone tried adding 250ml of 2-stroke oil JASO FB or FC to diesel tank. Works very well.

Google  "diesel- 2 stroke" and you will get lots of info as to why this works.

Been using it for a while now in Freelander, 3-5mpg improvement.