Shell petrol on Fair Go now! (21 June)

**ZeroIndex** · 22nd June 2006, 07:05

I'm not fussed which petrol station I go to.. I'll go to Shell if it's the only thing near me at the time(DX Mail).. I know where the petrol stations are when I'm working (my route), I'll always go to the closest one (don't care which brand).. just won't go to BP (98 fuel for the ct isn't worth it, I run it on 95, which actually goes further than 91)..

Proven theory (for the ct at least)..
if you use 91, you need to fill up more, if you use 95, the gas lasts longer (long enough to make about $1 difference every fill up (that's a $5 fill up)..

**James Deuce** · 22nd June 2006, 07:24

Originally Posted by ZeroIndex

Proven theory (for the ct at least)..
if you use 91, you need to fill up more, if you use 95, the gas lasts longer (long enough to make about $1 difference every fill up (that's a $5 fill up)..

Uh-huh.

Let's see the proof. That's an anecdote.

**Lazy7** · 22nd June 2006, 09:15

does anybody run their bike on 91 anyway?

**Hitcher** · 22nd June 2006, 09:19

Originally Posted by Lazy7

does anybody run their bike on 91 anyway?

Yep. Times two. And all previously-owned bikes as well.

**Sniper** · 22nd June 2006, 10:26

Fair Go is a waste of time. They couldnt even get the bosses name right or our website when they did a story on us...

Besides, I dont pay for petrol, thats what the company is for.

NC · 22nd June 2006, 10:41

Hey how come they dropped the octain level on 96 to 95?

**Motu** · 22nd June 2006, 10:49

It takes 0.0037% more ink or paint to produce a 6 than a 5 - by changing the 6 to a 5 over the course of the financial year there should be a 0.004% increase in profits....

**oldrider** · 22nd June 2006, 11:36

Originally Posted by Weasel

Mobil is good stuff...

98 octane, and pay at pump... can't beat it.

Is that right, I thought only BP have the 98 octane fuel.?

**Karma** · 22nd June 2006, 11:38

Nah man, it's like Mobil 8000, the purple stuff... is supposedly 98.

**merv** · 22nd June 2006, 12:20

Originally Posted by Lazy7

does anybody run their bike on 91 anyway?

Yep the book says my VFR can run on it so it does. No problems and ride at near enough legal speeds it does 20km/litre.

**sunhuntin** · 22nd June 2006, 12:24

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

your not really a customer but an employee of the firm so .......

i am a customer when im in street clothes putting petrol in mums car. they know me as a staff member though, as we rotate sites. plus, since im an employee, doesnt that mean i should get at least polite responses? lol.
i also run scuffy on 91...was going to experiment with the higher octane, but the price when too high for me to bother. 91 gets us from a to b with no hassle. lol. if i run outta gas, i will use whatever is closest...i once hit reserve getting back into turakina, where the only station is a caltex [i think?] so i had to use that. i did use to use shell, but the staff and site all got a makeover....they are way less helpful there now.

**ManDownUnder** · 22nd June 2006, 12:33

Originally Posted by Lazy7

does anybody run their bike on 91 anyway?

100% of the time and she doesn't miss a beat
MDU

**Flyingpony** · 22nd June 2006, 15:41

Originally Posted by Lazy7

does anybody run their bike on 91 anyway?

Always have.

**Bend-it** · 23rd June 2006, 08:56

Originally Posted by Jantar

They used a completely dry tank and put in 12 litres of Mobil for 174 km. When it ran out they rteplaced the tank with another completely empty tank and filled with 12 litres of shell for 181 km. 7 km difference works out at 4% difference.

That's right. While we're groaning about 2 cent increases, 4% fuel saving is like having 6.5 cents off each litre of petrol. Not bad when you think about it that way...

On a 16litre tank that's all of $1.04!! Woohoo!!

I'm grabbing all I can get, but don't ride more than 500m each way out of your way to get it!