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    Shell petrol on Fair Go now! (21 June)

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    what was the outcome? i flicked over and found a woman going on about power meter readers [i think?]
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    Quote Originally Posted by sunhuntin
    what was the outcome? i flicked over and found a woman going on about power meter readers [i think?]
    its a two parter .. first car on 12 litres of mobil fuel has done 174 ks ... shell is on later

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    Quote Originally Posted by chanceyy
    its a two parter .. first car on 12 litres of mobil fuel has done 174 ks ... shell is on later
    same car two tanks 1.7lt civic

    two completely empty tanks which are filled with equal amounts of mobil & shell

    moneys on the mobil, cause they are running the car to empty on each attempt, but they didn't drain the fuel line at the start, yet they will on the 2nd run

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    they running 98 or 95 mobile gas?

    that would be the only difference.

    hardly a fair test - only way to do it would be to set it to cruise control 100kms around an overal track. It is false advertising however if shell are suggesting their fuel will make a car go significantly further.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lazy7
    they running 98 or 95 mobile gas?

    that would be the only difference.

    hardly a fair test - only way to do it would be to set it to cruise control 100kms around an overal track. It is false advertising however if shell are suggesting their fuel will make a car go significantly further.

    Same course, same distance, same driving conditions, shell went 7 kms further ... BIG savings ... yeah right ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by chanceyy
    Same course, same distance, same driving conditions, shell went 7 kms further ... BIG savings ... yeah right ...
    still opposite to what everyone on this site has returned with real world driving conditions wont touch the stuff, mainly as there is none on my normal routes, cept the clevdon one

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    I agree. It was so close that any slight variable could make the difference. I don't doubt Fair Go's integrity, I think they really tried to be even, but yeah, as Ian said, not worth going too far out of your way to fill up with Shell.
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    I wonder how much gas you would use getting to a shell station?
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    bugger ! sweet F/A difference

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    Quote Originally Posted by chanceyy
    Same course, same distance, same driving conditions, shell went 7 kms further ... BIG savings ... yeah right ...
    What's that as a percentage difference?

    Just guessing here, but assuming that a Civic has a 45 litre tank and returns 16km/l, that's a range of 720km. A 7km variation on this is 1%. That, gentle readers, is fuck all difference.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edbear
    I agree. It was so close that any slight variable could make the difference. I don't doubt Fair Go's integrity, I think they really tried to be even, but yeah, as Ian said, not worth going too far out of your way to fill up with Shell.
    haha....i go furthur to by bp gas....theres a shell about 10 mins from my house that i ride by every single day. theres also a bp about 5 mins from my home, but the staff there are wankers and treat me, another bp staff member, like shit, so i wonder how they treat other customers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sunhuntin
    but the staff there are wankers and treat me, another bp staff member, like shit, so i wonder how they treat other customers.
    your not really a customer but an employee of the firm so .......

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    It's enough of a difference that they can't be sued or slagged off yet reel in the $$$ from poor unsuspecting motorists. I bet there are (were) plenty of codgers out there driving for miles just bo buy $10 worth of the stuff.

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