SHELL fuel

[ET!]

the other day i was close to shell servo and needed to fill up, so i put in $20 and went on my jolly way, but before even leaving the station i felt my car was running a little under the weather (really shitty low idle and almost stalled, btw my cars an auto) so i keep going not thinking to much of it untill i was stopped at the lights about 1 day later and it was in drive i had my foot on the brake and the idle just kept getting worse and worse until i decided nuetral would be a good idea so i put it in N and revved it and it was still feeling a little chunky.... untill yesterday when i filled up with $57 of BP premo and its run fine ever since. (btw it was shell regular unleaded) i usually run on regular but i decided i would try BP premo to flush the shit out of my system.

MORAL of the story: shell fuel is shit, and i will never by it again, and i have tried BP ultimate, Premo, and regular and all are tops.

[weezer]

Optimax used to be very good when it first came out. Now for some reason its really shit. My dad filled up my car with optimax instead of synergy (which i prefer) and it started to ping slightly so i had to get a bottle of octane boost. Which seemed to stop it

[CJL]

No shit I have had that problem, idles like shit house and then stalls u give it a rev and still shit house. Dam optimax could be the problem

[Steer^Gimic]

i believe its because of the longer shelf life compared to synergy and ultimate. i havent touched it since i bought my car.

[Muckafutha]

the turnover for shell fuels is much higher than other brands so i dun think the problem is with shelf life.

[faijai]

Shell works fine so stop ur bitching! lol. nah i use premo tho. and always works fine.

[h22a accord]

ive never had a prob with optimax. i go out of my way to get buy it. car runs best on it.

[Steer^Gimic]

poor 30 bottles of octane booster :P should work a treat.

[PhatSol]

The refinery has very strict quality controls. I think you will find the problem lies with the service station operators. Poorly maintained storage tanks, old fuel, etc... I have had water in my optimax before. Moral of the story - never go back to that service station.

[panda[cRx]]

this has been covered before, there is a huge thread on it isnt there?

yes optimax is gheyified

[flipmods]

the other day i was close to shell servo and needed to fill up, so i put in $20 and went on my jolly way, but before even leaving the station i felt my car was running a little under the weather (really ###### low idle and almost stalled, btw my cars an auto) so i keep going not thinking to much of it untill i was stopped at the lights about 1 day later and it was in drive i had my foot on the brake and the idle just kept getting worse and worse until i decided nuetral would be a good idea so i put it in N and revved it and it was still feeling a little chunky.... untill yesterday when i filled up with $57 of BP premo and its run fine ever since. (btw it was shell regular unleaded) i usually run on regular but i decided i would try BP premo to flush the #### out of my system.

MORAL of the story: shell fuel is ####, and i will never by it again, and i have tried BP ultimate, Premo, and regular and all are tops.

I am glad I am not the only one. Same story with me also find it hard to start. But after a coulple of days it started fine, Just ran ####.
Tried using Shell before and it did the same thing, I just wanted to double check.
Ultimate all the way now.

[|N|]

i go with anything but not shell...