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[Nickbat]

Read this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6405051.stm

Makes you wonder what's going on.

[bob.dent]

Bloody hell ......and in my area of the country. Thankfully I haven't experienced any of the "contaminated" petrol yet and certainly don't want to, but how do you know who's petrol is 100% reliable? I usually use either BP Ultimate or Sainsbury's super unleaded which weren't mentioned in the report, so hopefully are ok.

[tunnie]

thank god I am a poor student and cannot afford fuel any more!  

[TheBoy]

On the radio (yes I can be an old git radio 2 listener), they hinted tescos/morrisons, but test inconclusive.  Its said to cause the lamda to fail....

[DaveL]

Very worrying peeps, sorry for you. Must be a little like Russian roulette. You will probably find that all the petrol companies use one supply depot. Up were i am it is at a place called Grangemouth. You can see the tankers from all different companies filling there.

We only have a Tesco petrol garage that supplies fuel in the local town. Its right next to the stable for the only horse.
 8-)
DaveL

[Taxi_Driver]

Very worrying peeps, sorry for you. Must be a little like Russian roulette. You will probably find that all the petrol companies use one supply depot. Up were i am it is at a place called Grangemouth. You can see the tankers from all different companies filling there.

We only have a Tesco petrol garage that supplies fuel in the local town. Its right next to the stable for the only horse.
 8-)
DaveL

Yes i heard it on a local radio station this afternoon too......tescos and morrisons....were mentioned.

i have seen before a tesco's tanker on a forecourt of a shell garage......now he'd either popped in for some diesel or was filling their tanks  :-/ And another option the tesco's tanker could have rented by shell.....and had shell fuel in it......or anybodies fuel in it  :-/

[Chopsdad]

My favourite comment:
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The RAC said the problem seemed to be particularly affecting the oxygen sensors in vehicles made by Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Mercedes.[size=14][/size][/size]

No worries for Omega owners then...

[JohnM]

... i have seen before a tesco's tanker on a forecourt of a shell garage......

Too worrying (because);
1/ Low on fuel - Mr Range on mid-two figures, time to fill (normally).
2/ Before I'd heard of this I'd noted a huge (and dangerous) gaggle of cars, half blocking, the A52 this afternoon.  I just thought, oh must be cheap Shell (and I would too, it runs well) but due to near accidents I missed the price thingy.  

So, where to fill up??

[Del Boy]

Heard about this earlier don't go to tesco's anyway  

[Danny]

well after puttin £52 in on satuday at my local tesco, having said that i then went 150 miles on sunday and carried on using it for work this week and had no trouble at all...

i'm hopin i was lucky at my garage!

[Markie]

tesco apparetly deny any responsibility

who ever is responsibe could face big big £££££  :-/

[bogit]

was talking to a chap in enfield last night who has had 3 of his cars go down with knackered o2 sensors........ he's fuming

[DaveL]

i bet
Heard just on the radio that there is now a shortage of O sensors so the pain just goes on.

Advice from one of the motoring pundit's was to keep a sample of the contaminated fuel along with the receipts for it and the repairs.

Only happened to me once, touch wood, were i put petrol in diesel car.

Cost a fortune to repair.
 8-)
DaveL

[bogit]

the company i used to work for used to suffer a member of staff putting unleaded in there nice shiney diesel ccompany car about once a month.

some numpty even managed to put unleaded in a merc sprinter van once. killed the pump , injectors , and all the sensors too  

[Marks DTM Calib]

This doesn't add up......an O2 sensor failure does not give the symptoms described as it will default to a stored MAP and enter limp home mode......

I suspect the fuel is causing poor combustion resulting in excess O2 in the exhaust, this flags an O2 fault and the garage change it.....I would have thought that if you drained the fuel and ran the car....it would recover.....its probably more of a story about the incompitence of modern mechanics