I just pay cash…including my shopping.
I like using cash., so I do.
It’s really not a problem.
I use a card to order Amazon stuff.
That way, I decide what I spend, not some Orwellian nut job system which grabs my identity at will ( even more…I know)
Thing is, these days technology has given rise to the ability to solve big issues…like walking 10 feet to a till… and small ones you neve knew you had or were never really much an issue before “we” are informed they are before some bunch of clowns thought it’d be really ace to invent something and then program your brains ( or for some what’s left of them) that it is an essential need solved.
The hell it is.
Cash for me is King.
Filled the ND up with E10 petrol at Tesco. Went for a B road drive today, about 50 Miles in all. Horrible. Where I could be in X gear and pull away easily, found I had to drop a cog instead. Pull away in 2nd from a junction? Forget it. It turned our regular cross-country back road drive into a bit of a chore as was often in the wrong gear from where our past drives let us be in. Average MPG on E5 was 48.1. Average today was 38. Will work out what the whole thankful is when I need to fill up again. Based on today’s experience, it looks like Super for the Eunos AND the ND. Ouch!
Exactly what I found with our Mazda3 coming back from Little Haven a couple of years ago when I was forced to use Texaco regular because the planned Shell garage was taking a delivery!
I was sceptical at first but have started using Tesco’s Momentum 99 in mine. Far superior MPG cruising and normal driving. Better response etc and more than pays for itself.
Been using Tesco Momentum 99 for years in all our cars
Who really wants to be faffing around with cost & remembering to put additives in to negate damaging effects of Ethanol on older car components - just not worth the risk
Thanks for that, I like these sort of debates.
Perhaps I should have stated that mine is a 2013 3.75 apparently “capable” of taking E10.
My research states, not good for seals, gaskets, some metals, hoses, can dislodge deposits and cause blockages in “Some Older Cars”. (Perhaps in the long term).
Likewise, it can reduce fuel consumption so in the end you actually burn more fuel than needed and create more CO2.
Higher grades will contain only 5% and Momentum 0% (apparently).
Conspiracy theorists might say we will all be buying the higher grades and therefore pay more tax to the governments.
Not as big a leap from Leaded to Unleaded though perhaps.
Funny old world we live in at the moment for many reasons, some of which I will never logically fully understand.
EDIT - Just watched the above video and thanks.
Basically use the car and if storing or SORN put the higher grade of fuel in perhaps?
It don’t, Momentum is a 5% ethanol product. As is V power and as is every other super unleaded, other than ESSO’s RON 99 brew, which is ethanol free, except in a few parts of country, namely (Devon, Cornwall, North Wales, North England and Scotland).
I am hoping the car will adjust itself to the new fuel. I am off on a couple of longish drives (200 and 500 miles). If it hasn’t make itself better, I will switch at next fill up.
Personally I used Momentum and V power for about the first 10 months that I had the ND. It was on fumes when I test drove it when I bought it, and during the test drive we went to the nearest shell garage and i paid for the V power myself as I knew I was going to buy it and wanted literally every mile to only have RON 99 lol
After about 10 months i switched to ethanol free ESSO Supreme, which as then RON 97. However they changed it to RON 99 (still with no ethanol) a year or so later.
Lots of people say that. Fair enough, it depends what one values. I think it’s about £1.39 litre at the moment near me. I’m not sure what the ‘normal’ unleaded price is in comparison at the same station, as I don’t put it in.
I must admit I didn’t save and pay thousands and thousands of pounds on my cars to then penny pinch on petrol.
Yes, fair enough with Momentum with that price difference. It’s about 3p where i am. Changes station to station of course. The first time I went to put ESSO’s supreme in in, when it was then RON97 I also put the pump back on the shelf. It was ‘Spar’ station and it was about £1.50 per litre…when ‘normal’ unleaded was about £1.10! I quickly found another station lol
My mistake above, I re-read and saw that you put Momentum in it. I thought you were just on standard normal and avoided premium. Teach me to read lol
I used momentum for about 3 years in a Swift Sport Mk1 before I sold it a few years ago, and 80%+ of what’s gone into a NISMO RS Juke (needs RON 99 as standard) which I’ve got in the family, has been Momentum, too.
Can anyone tell me if the changes to petrol being introduced in august will damage a mx5 mark 2 dated 2003?
i found it strange t he government announcing changes and warning people to check if the new petrol was going to damage their car before using it.
Far too expensive though in my opinion.