fuel

[joey]

thank you all, i only asked if it made any difference or if it was worth the extra, just to see if it helped to keep the engine running smoother and cleaner.
i do know that the filler cap will have the info....

[The_Doc]

My annual mileage is small so running higher cost RON 99 Shell V Power doesn’t really hit the wallet but hopefully the added detergents help. I ran with half a tank of E10 once as that’s all I could get to get me home, couldn’t tell any difference in performance TBH.

E10 will make no difference to a modern car vs the E5 of previous 95/98. It’s older cars where the higher ethanol content can damage the rubber/plastics that weren’t designed to handle it, but it’s been a long time since that was a concern in new cars. Everything newer than 2006 and made by VW has no issues with e10, and quite a lot from before that are fine too.

+1 for Costco 97. 10p a litre cheaper (at least) than 98 anywhere else, and the only reason 98 is specified is that it’s the typically available one for the UK, whereas 97 was typically rarer until more recently.

[Rudedog]

BP Ultimate is 97 and has the detergents plus is only 5p/l more than regular around here - to me better value than Shell v-power (which I always used in my previous TDI) and is 21p/l more than regular!!

Have to say I do get better mpg with 97/99.

[jh_97]

V-Power tends to be 14p more round me (W. Sussex), all other premiums are 10p more than the respective non-premium.

FYI all, I found an app called Petrol Prices which seems to be updated daily to view prices at each station, but sometimes premiums aren't updated.

[monkeyhanger]

V-Power tends to be 14p more round me (W. Sussex), all other premiums are 10p more than the respective non-premium.

FYI all, I found an app called Petrol Prices which seems to be updated daily to view prices at each station, but sometimes premiums aren't updated.

If I'm out of my locality, I use petrol prices website to find somewhere reasonably cheap - it identified a Tesco extra that was only 5p dearer than Costco, 3 miles from Heathrow, as I was going to arrive back from my flight with the local Costco (Watford) closed for filling to get me back to Newcastle. Easy to use and usually accurate, as you can see when it was last updated.

[BillSan]

The VW app also shows petrol prices but I don't know how regularly it is updated.  I've used the petrol prices app in the past but have used the VW app more recently.  No problem with either of them to be fair.