Morrisons Diesel

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I have noticed better mpg using Morrisons Diesel on two long trips recently. Its 7% Bio diesel. I've noticed no adverse effects so far apart from better mpg. Anyone else had this experience?
 
I do agree with longer trips improve mpg but I am getting 5% more mpg on the identical long trip.
 
How much is it selling at per litre? i thought Bio made less emissions at the cost of fewer MPG's but i could be wrong.
 
I think all fuels have to have some quantity of bio content now (bioethanol for petrol, or biodiesel for, err, diesel) due to EU legislation?
 
I am sure I read somewhere that most diesel is 5-10% bio-diesel but that Mossisons Diesel was nearer 15% which is why I have avoided it.
 
Why avoid it for that reason?! IF it is 15% bio then I might start using it. I have previously always had a policy of sticking with the premium brands.
 
I tend to prefer Shell over Morrisons, they usually hold the same price in Taunton being so close together, and I fell I get slightly better MPG from Shell, although it's obviously very difficult to be sure without repeating the exact same trips, with the exact same conditions, with same weight of trafic.
 
I usually fill up once a week with Morrisons and once a week with Tescos, and on the odd occasions when I forget to get Diesel before leaving for work I use a Murco or Esso garage close to work, and to be honest over the 800 - 900 miles I do in a week the MPG is usually set between 58.8 and 61.4 with the lower reading being when I leave the house 10 mins late which means that I get caught in the traffic on the M25 and North Circular.
 
It really is next to impossible to attribute improved MPG in one tank fill vs another down purely to the brand of fuel used. There are simply way too many other variables involved in fuel consumption, and when you're not comparing one variable to a known constant, it could literally be anything.

Perhaps if we wanted to be sure we got two identical A2 TDis with known similar MPGs (because engines, tyres, bearings sensors etc wear differently), fuel one with one type of diesel and the other with the other, and drove them on an identical duty cycle over the course of, say, a year, we might get a clue that perhaps one fuel has some impact, but that's never going to happen.
 
Does this Morrison's stuff give MPG and Performance equal to that of standard Diesel? I've read it has better lubrication but apparently it's not recommended in newer Diesel's cars.

I dunno this is all new to me.
 
Not sure if we are talking about the same subject any more. I do believe you can buy biodiesel from some Morrisons which is 70/30 split. The pumps are orange I think. Approval is still being sought from all car manufacturers.
Their standard diesel is 7% biodiesel only and as others have commented, most diesel fuels are a %age bio diesel anyway.
Hope this clears things up.
 
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yes, didn't know most diesel had bio init anway, i thought they were poles apart.

Thanks, i'll keep a look out for the bio stuff and give it a try one day.
 
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Just drove past my local Shell station £137.9, Wow.

Obviously i doubled back and took advantage with a £30 topup. Lol
 
It's come to something when we think 137.9 is cheap! But that's a good 3p less than any of the garages round my way, good spot.
 
It's come to something when we think 137.9 is cheap! But that's a good 3p less than any of the garages round my way, good spot.

The Shell garages in Birmingham are quite 'competitively' priced and that's a standard price around our way. Certainly on a par with the supermarket forecourts.

I recall a couple of years ago, driving through Hertfordshire upon my return from Calais, fuel being cheaper at a Shell station than even my local. My jaunts up and down the country normally find fuel prices being cheapest in the North East of England. Shell has the 'cheapest' prices.
 
135.9p at Morrisons !
 
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