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PostPosted: 17:44 - 07 Jun 2025    Post subject: Tesco: E5 but no ethanol Reply with quote

Testing The Octane And Ethanol Content Of Tesco Momentum 99 Super Unleaded Petrol

Seems to consistently contain no ethanol! FYI E5 can contain up to 5% ethanol but there's no minimum. (E10 has 5~10% ethanol)
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PostPosted: 07:48 - 08 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

ill stick with Shell and Esso thanks.
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PostPosted: 10:19 - 08 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

to v or not to v wrote:
ill stick with Shell and Esso thanks.


You prefer fuels with ethanol in?
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PostPosted: 11:23 - 08 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

i prefer most things in life to Tesco.

ive read in the past that Shell and Esso premium stuff is ethanol free or very low content?
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PostPosted: 12:07 - 08 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

to v or not to v wrote:
i prefer most things in life to Tesco.

ive read in the past that Shell and Esso premium stuff is ethanol free or very low content?


A general objection to the horizontal market, all consuming retail behemoth? Fair enough. But Tesco only makes a fraction of the profits the likes of Shell and Esso pocket. In relative terms, Tesco is a local shop for local people compared to the global operations of the other two. #JustSayin' Wink

Regardless, Shell/Esso/Tesco premium shit will definitely be what's going in my GT when I do the Amal carb conversion Smile
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PostPosted: 07:36 - 09 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm curious - where does it say E10 can contain 5-10% ethanol? Could it not potentially be 0-10%?



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PostPosted: 15:01 - 09 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

blurredman wrote:
I'm curious - where does it say E10 can contain 5-10% ethanol? Could it not potentially be 0-10%?

Haven't weatched the video, but presumably legally it could be; but the reality is that if it's below 5%, they going to sell it as the more expensive E5, aren't they?
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PostPosted: 15:32 - 09 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

I suspect the cheap fuel is something of a loss leader for Tesco, so since I buy their petrol but nothing from the shop, I'm probably fucking them over.

I buy their petrol because it's 99 octane and my enfield is on the cusp of detonation at the best of times anyway, most other brands of E5 are 97 octane.
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PostPosted: 16:45 - 09 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

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This The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) and the Biofuel (Labelling) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 enforces the requirement for petrol stations in Great Britain to only sell 95 octane premium petrol with a minimum ethanol content of 5.5% by volume. It also ensures the continuing availability of E5 petrol (petrol with 5% or less ethanol) for older vehicles and certain petrol-powered equipment that are unsuitable for E10 petrol*

*E10 petrol means that it contains more than 5% of ethanol.

(source: https://thecompliancepeople.co.uk/updates/legal/the-motor-fuel-composition-and-content-and-the-biofuel-labelling-amendment-no-2-regulations-2021/)

The added bonus with Tesco Momentum is it tests at >100 ron.
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PostPosted: 07:42 - 10 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

Freddyfruitbat wrote:

Haven't weatched the video, but presumably legally it could be; but the reality is that if it's below 5%, they going to sell it as the more expensive E5, aren't they?


Not if it's 95 though?


Either way, I only buy 95 'e10' and I leave my vehicles for years sometimes and I never have an issue starting them back up. Only one of my 8 vehicles is from this side of the millenium. Seems like I am the only one, or people just like blaming petrol on everything. Laughing
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PostPosted: 10:11 - 10 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

blurredman wrote:


Not if it's 95 though?


Either way, I only buy 95 'e10' and I leave my vehicles for years sometimes and I never have an issue starting them back up. Only one of my 8 vehicles is from this side of the millenium. Seems like I am the only one, or people just like blaming petrol on everything. Laughing


But an MZ will run on pretty much anything vaguely flammable you throw in the tank. A mate of mine was running his on a mix of BBQ lighting fluid and meths mixed with mazola cooking oil. He posts on here sometimes, lingeringstink.
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PostPosted: 11:52 - 10 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes I know of Lingeringstink. I'm talking gernally though, not about MZs. Cool
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PostPosted: 14:24 - 10 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

It can be pretty random. I've had the stuff go WELL off after a couple of months, you know what off petrol smells like. I've had it last overwinter.

BP state their E10 can be stored for up to 12 months in a sealed container. One month in a ventilated tank.

https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/country-sites/en_au/australia/home/products-services/fuels/opal-factsheet-storagehandling.pdf
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PostPosted: 13:43 - 12 Jun 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote

I bought some 95 e5 before it stopped being sold, and bought the 95 e10 varient afterwards. Both from the same Tesco. Both stored in glass containers. Semi-sealed I guess - some fuel did evaporate up to a point - both caps bulged over time. I kept them both for about 18 months. I found that the e5 was the one that had the water in the bottom of it, not the e10..

Either way- after the year I had enough of looking at them and just poured them both into my bike and stopped caring about it all the talk. Laughing
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