Rob7seven
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- Aug 10, 2020
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- Location
- Poole, Dorset
- Your Mercedes
- 2020 AMG C300
The best local place for me is Shell, so I almost always use their fuel. My previous car was an Alfa Giulia, the handbook told me that the car needed 98 so I always used that with no problems at all, apart from the Alfa dealers who were terrible, bad enough to persuade me not to buy another one, so I returned to my previous favourite, Mercedes. My C300 is good, the handbook told me that standard unleaded is fine, so I've used that, but p1ss-added, sorry 10% ethanol fuel caused an immediate drop in fuel consumption, so a few days ago when the tank was half full, I topped up with Shell V-Power 98. The car had been running OK, and there was no immediate improvement on V-Power, but fuel economy improved, I'd never seen 40 on the trip consumption before. I don't think my car had ever had anything but Shell before, but I'll be paying the extra for V-Power from now on, and that was from adding just half a tank of the better stuff, which according to the notice on the pump, is only 5% p1ss.