{"id":1602,"date":"2010-10-28T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T10:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2010-10-29T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T07:24:07","slug":"fuelsave-three-months-on-whats-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1602","title":{"rendered":"Shell FuelSave Three Months On – What’s Changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in July, I wrote an article announcing the launch of Shell FuelSave petrol and diesel<\/a> – two new fuels that would replace Shell’s regular unleaded and diesel throughout the UK. I’d been to the press launch and the piece I wrote was fairly positive, I thought.<\/p>\n

What I didn’t expect was to be met by a barrage of negative comments from drivers who felt that using FuelSave fuels had caused problems with their cars. My original article on FuelSave has had more comments than any other on this site – 65 comments, at the last count. Somehow, this website became the focus for anyone who thought they were having car problems caused by FuelSave petrol or diesel.<\/p>\n

It has now been more than three months since FuelSave was launched and I hope that the dust has now settled. It is clear that the vast majority of people who use the fuel do not experience problems – given the size of Shell’s forecourt network, if lots of drivers were having problems it would have hit the mainstream news by now (remember the contaminated supermarket fuel fiasco<\/a> a few years ago?)<\/p>\n

Does anyone still feel that their car is being affected by FuelSave? If you are a regular Shell customer, have you noticed any change in fuel consumption?<\/p>\n

(I’d only expect to see a small improvement at best, as even Shell’s best-case claimed figure of 1 litre per 50 litres only equates to a 2% improvement – the equivalent of going from 40mpg to 40.8mpg. However, anyone who does a lot of driving might have noticed a slight change, especially if your car has a computer that calculates fuel consumption.)<\/em><\/p>\n

I would be very interested to hear anything at all about people’s experience with FuelSave – whether good, bad or indifferent.<\/p>\n

To get in touch, just leave a comment below this post or on my original FuelSave post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My original Shell FuelSave post prompted a large number of negative comments about the fuels, with people claiming they caused car problems. Is anyone still having concerns?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[40,41,915,916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}