General topics » Supermarket Fuel

I have been reading an article wherein the author says that using supermarket fuel will damage your engine.
I have been unable to find any proof of this, so where does this assumption come from?
I do not have a supermarket selling fuel near to me, so I am unable to comment on a personal basis about performance differences on one fuel source to another.

Alan

Zitat von Alda im Beitrag #1

---

I have been reading an article wherein the author says that using supermarket fuel will damage your engine.
I have been unable to find any proof of this, so where does this assumption come from?
I do not have a supermarket selling fuel near to me, so I am unable to comment on a personal basis about performance differences on one fuel source to another.

Alan

---

All of the fuel sold in California, including supermarket fuel, comes from the same few local refineries and must meet the state's strict formulation. So, at least here, there is no difference who sells the gas. It is all the same - except for the price. Supermarket and Costco gas is always a lot cheaper than the major brands.

Only advice, info I have seen, is that "all fuels are the same!" but it is the specific additives from shell/esso/bp that may make a difference.
CW motorcycles (no longer bmw franchise)did advise me to stick to any premium brands for this reason.
Only two air head engines needing valve rebuilds by CW at that time the owners had always bought the cheapest supermarket fuel so maybe "good don't come cheap and cheap is never any good"
Run all my R1200's on shell, usually the 98/99 octane super stuff rather than 95 rating. I know only the R1200ST still needs higher octane or the antiknock sensor does react but in the grand scheme of things 50p per tank top up is hardly an issue.

Maybe there was a time it mattered, but even back in 1999, hole in the wall gas stations were upgraded to new tanks and new pump technologies.

Water contamination sufficient to do damage is simply not possible. That much water in the gas will shut the pumps off. There are filters to keep contamination from being pumped into the tank. The gas you buy is the same gas sold to the brand name gas stations...the additive pack is the only variable. Well, that and the dye pack that lets a lab ID whose gas it is based on the color of the fuel.

My only concern with getting gas is when I find a place with the old school, gear driven pumps (flip a lever and let the numbers scroll). Usually they have new tanks due to EPA regulation, but how good the contamination sensors are or filter tech present is an unknown.

Zitat von Alda im Beitrag #1

---

I have been reading an article wherein the author says that using supermarket fuel will damage your engine.
I have been unable to find any proof of this, so where does this assumption come from?
I do not have a supermarket selling fuel near to me, so I am unable to comment on a personal basis about performance differences on one fuel source to another.

---