Heyy just wondering what type if gas you guys run because i rum shell on all of my vehicles including my dirt bike. Well supposedly clean your piston and valves is b.s. the carbon build up is pretty bad with their v-power fuel i start to wonder what my truck looks like

 

Having a good friend in the refining business has caused me to follow his advice and have been happy sticking to Chevron/Texaco, Unocal, Exxon or Arco. My friend told me enough about Shell to make me never buy it again; ever.

YMMV

 

What have you heard about Shell?

 

I used to work for BP.

Shell's marketing on v-power "cleaning" is not entirely untrue, but all gas has nitrogen in it, not just vpower.


Honestly, it's all about the additives in fuel. BP, Shell, Texaco, Mobil, etc all have much much better additives than Speedway, gas city, etc.

Amoco/BP Ultimate used to actually be crystal clear. My dad was with Amoco for 35 years and has a glass paperweight on his desk with a drop of ultimate in it.

 

Used Shell for quite a few years without any problems. But, I'm not above stopping at a Sam's club either.

 

Interesting, just watched this Youtube video the other day. Testing indicated that Shell premium had the highest detergent level. I would have thought that would have helped.


(It is 2 years old)

 

I dump some Marvel Mystery Oil in my gas tank, if it's good enough for WW1 aircraft it should help my car.

 

How do we even know that the gas, for example, the local BP station here, is even "BP" gas?


The truck that brings the gas to the BP station here says "CANTER OIL COMPANY". Unless this oil company is under contractual agreement to make gas from the "BP" formula.


Shell gas could be gas from ABC company as far as I know if the truck isn't labeled SHELL....

 

I've been inside a few major fuel terminals that load gas for a variety of different stations. I was told that federal law mandates a minimum for additives but that the branded gas stations get a higher percentage of additives.

 

Absolutely wrong.

The branded gasolines get a higher grade of additives, not a higher percentage.

Take a gallon of gas (128 oz). In a gallon of branded gasoline, the additives are more expensive but take up less "room" in each gallon. Say for example Chevron uses their Techron additive. It takes up 1-4 oz. So you still get 124-127 oz of actual gasoline. Brand XYZ corner gasoline requests the cheaper additives (like Sam's Club, Costco, Safeway, etc.), and in each gallon of gasoline their additives take up 15-20 oz of "room". Yes, they both meet federal standards, but from which gasoline are you going to get better mpgs?

Additives burn, but don't produce any power.

[MENTION=65768]Gravedigger[/MENTION]: While meeting federal regs, Shell has more sulphur in their gasolines. My friend can pick out a car that runs Shell gas just by smelling the exhaust while we're riding our motorcycles (wish my sniffer worked that well!) Sulphur is bad for engines... and the environment.