bike sat for 3 weeks with tesco petrol

stocksmenace · Scooby Slapper Joined: 24 Apr 2012 Karma :

filled up the bike in local tesco,(dont normally) three weeks ago, then the bike had been sat ( had my wedding to get out of the way with) took it out yesterday and it felt groggy....and cut out by the house, decided to do the usual checks air filter/ carbs etc to check inside......what a bloody nightmare that was, DERBI must have hired aload of midgets with small hands to put it together.....anyhoo stripped the air filter and there was a cups worth of petrol sitting in there........(SERIOUSLY).........the carb was blocked with dirt and had backed up through to the air filter.... never will i fill up at tesco rrrgain Evil or Very Mad

.....cleaned down the carb and now time to put her back together again......

WannaBeDude · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Jul 2011 Karma :

As long as it Tesco, you'll be ok ... Thumbs Up

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cornish · Forum Conscience Joined: 03 Feb 2011 Karma :

My god i fill my car up at tesco all the time and put a load of it in the bike (still stood as a work in progress) Shocked

Is there something up with their petrol? Do they add loads of weird shit to it?
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WannaBeDude · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Jul 2011 Karma :

Yes bird, full of wierd shit tbf ... Rolling Eyes

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kernow24 · Crazy Courier Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Karma :

so you have a shit bike that was leaking fuel and its somehow the tesco petrol fault? Laughing

you really couldn't make it up... or could you...

you more than likely have a gunked up or rusty tank and leaving it stand
for a few weeks has allowed all the gunk to settle, which would normally
be pulled through the system bit by bit without you noticing.

but you need to act quickly to sue tesco and get some COMPENSATION
before its too late
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neil. · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Karma :

I've ran both my bikes on Tesco unleaded for something like a combined total of 50'000 miles. Never had a problem.
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Dazbo666 · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Karma :

I ran my GPZ, and the current Bandit on supermarket fuel, and never had a fuel related problem
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stocksmenace · Scooby Slapper Joined: 24 Apr 2012 Karma :

it was a few weeks ago when the pumps were all running empty...bike was in perfect running order before that time....make sure i maintain it myself

stocksmenace · Scooby Slapper Joined: 24 Apr 2012 Karma :

its a 2008 opened the carb and cleaned everything ready for summer about 4 months ago

DrDonnyBrago · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Jan 2010 Karma :

There is a bike in my garage that has been sat for 6 months unused with Asda petrol in it, it starts fine on the odd occasion that I need to start it up. My bike has been run on Asda petrol every day except for the odd week or two for the past few years, and works fine.

There probably are instances where supermarket fuel is a bit lame but in general, it is fine.

acid drop · Nova Slayer Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Karma :

My bike's not been used for 8 weeks cos of the rain and other things it was filled with tesco fuel which comes from the esso refinery 10 miles from my tesco store, it fired up first go and had no problems.

stocksmenace · Scooby Slapper Joined: 24 Apr 2012 Karma :

not saying all supermarkets have issues, just seemed to be a bit odd that i fill up in a diff garage to usual and it was a bad day for me to fill up...

Casper · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Jul 2010 Karma :

I got duff fuel from Tesco once. It was once though and i do go back.

WannaBeDude · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Jul 2011 Karma :

Was joking about Tesco, but i do only use vpower or texaco spezial ... Smile

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flumpy7 · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 31 May 2008 Karma :

This thread reminds me of when people say that guiness tastes better if you buy it in ireland.

I'd love to see some empirical evidence that supermarket fuel is substandard....or even much different.
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orac · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Sep 2011 Karma :

i have seen scotters with plastic tanks that have obnly ever been filled at tesco (its easy accss for the staff in and out of work) that have a large build up something in the bottom of the tank.

as a side not, i used to fill the GS5 at tesco, for some reason i filled somewhere else an my MPG went up, the machine ran smoother, started better and gernerally felt better all round...

since then i have avoiuded tesco, on a side note from what i understand both asda and sainsbury's use bp gogo so should be a reasonable standard
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