Member Offer: My Esso Card

My OH has just got a 5p per litre off voucher at Tesco. Not an ongoing feature but a lot less hassle it would appear.

A mile and Sainsburys is two in the other direction, so for me it's a no-brainer'. Then there's Asda only a little bit further. I'm spoilt for choice. We don't do a mega mileage, filling OH's runabout about once a month and the MH's tank has a range of over 500 miles so visits are fairly infrequent.

After having all my injectors relaced and I am now onto my 3rd DPF, I am very reluctant to use supermarket fuels. As I have told by 2 separate garages that it is those fuels that are causing my problems. I therefore stick to Shell or Esso and occassionally use premium to help the engine. I only wish my Esso card would turn up, I have been waiting since 1st December and have been told that I should finally have it by 18th February. When I do get it I will be saving about 3 pence per litre.

Just as a balance-no repairs, no replacement pieces of kit after 7yrs on S/mkt fuel only. I drive superbly possibly?👍🏻😎

Given that there seemed to be a few more reports of people successfully using the card again, I was passing an Esso today and thought I’d give it another go... filled up, presented my original pump king card (that I’ve used before and also been double charged on before), but then the pin was not accepted. Looks like I’ll have 3 pump king cards to cut up when I get home - and in future, won’t be as naive to assume that a club promoted scheme is automatically a sound one.

I’ve never known injectors to need replacing at 50k miles, IBH. It is usually stop, start slow tick-over type driving that causes it. 

NB. Posts littered with smileys = sense of humour. 😄👍🏻

After receiving my first text advising of fuel price (have had card some weeks) thought i would try it yesterday  ,not a problem, card and pin accepted,just  to see what the payment is now

Going back to the way this club originally marketed this offer was I think slightly contradicting itself in its inferred 'members benefit objective' The message that the club begins with is  quote  ' to help drive down on the cost of Touring '. ( However more correctly perhaps this offer actually goes on to more widely potentially  give members 'total motoring fuel costs to include any vehicle the member drives)

This is my own personal opinion for a much less complicated promotion , Actually taking that promotion offer directly in that original headline context I would have  been very happy  to have accepted to have a set % discount applied to Esso fuel purchased on production of  my club membership numbered card  (i.e.similar in principle to various other annual 'club saver offers' already listed for a range of other products and services and visitor attractions )  for my one named main Touring  vehicle.

(Personally I would have been happy for  the discount applied just for my  motorhome thus simply saving on the promised  touring costs as originally advertised)

I would imagine this would either be much too simple an idea that either the fuel company would not be involved enough for their own particular reasons with this Pump King 'marketing /fuel card loyalty/ company'? - or the club would probably claim   could not be administered  for some various  odd reasons.?

(By the way I keep getting texts and emails from Pump King with latest offer prices and emails assuming  I have already received a card informing me another 'replacement' card has been issued. However I have never received a card. It is  also strange that when filling in the original application and then after having second thoughts on ordering the card I only part filled the application form and then I thought I had cancelled it  as it all sounded far too complicated to bother with  as we often combine a supermarket shop with re-fuelling the van often for sheer convenience when we are away .'touring' anyway ???

Supermarket deisel fuel has actually been fine with my motorhome for well over over 12 years The motorhome has more extended running periods on comparative longer journeys and thus produces a higher longer, more effective exhaust expelling temperature. On the other hand we do not choose to use supermarket fuel for our car but always go for the higher grade octane branded filling station deisel as the car  does not have the similar  sustained  longer distance use in comparison on the majority of  car trips.

Sorry, never been a lover of tongue in cheek humour! Although the injectors were not necessarly damaged by the supermarket fuel, the DPFs were and because of that I now only use quality diesel.

We're all entitled to our opinions, IBH, and mine is that both DPFs and injectors will be fine on supermarket fuel but slow running will not enable the engine to get hot enough to enable the burn off of carbon. 

Each to their own.👍🏻

It is a C4 Picasso 1.6 115bhp after the injectors were replaced I checked on the Picasso forum and discovered that the injectors go at about 50 - 54 thousand miles. The DPFs are probably because of lower miles and town driving. Now I put premium fuel in every 2 or 3 fills.

That’s the way to do it! 👍🏻

As I posted in this thread about a thousand years ago, I have used supermarket fuel, both petrol and diesel over the best part of the last 30 years with no problems.

A fortnight ago I took my 4 year old Honda CRV, which I've owned from new and now has 50k on the clock, to my local Honda dealer for a service. Having a chat with the service manager I told him I normally drove the car with a light right foot, apart from when towing the van, but occasionally gave it a good "wellying" to hopefully blow out the 'crap' from the DPF. He told me not to worry, the only problems with the DPF were due to abuse. I asked him how it was possible to abuse a DPF. He said "Short trips to the shops, not allowing the car to warm up, and constant stop start commuter runs".

So, perhaps DPF and injector problems are due to how the car is used.

I've had 2 cars with a DPF. The first, an Octavia did an 80 mile round trip every day, at speed, to work and back (for 5 Years ) Never had a problem, despite always filling it at Asda near my workplace.

Since retiring, a smaller VW Polo  potters around town for a few miles, rarely goes above 30mph. The DPF warning light often comes on, and is cured by a 30 mins of thrashing it at high revs in third gear to burn off the carbon in the DPF till the warning light goes out. Pain in the neck. It will have to be a petrol when we change it I think.

The van has never ever been a problem, but that never does slow short journeys either, and up till now ( 3 years ) has run entirely on supermarket fuel. If the new card actually arrives, and works, we will use Esso.

If it's slow speed, stop-start that does for injectors, London taxis must be getting new ones every other week.