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Floyd de Souza · 6th October 2006, 10:17

I endorse Sportive's and Vipers view fully that filling fuel at a reputed/coco/reliable (whatever you may call it) pump has a substantial impact on FE. I have experienced it first hand recently. I used to fill up at the HPCL COCO outlet at Bandra on a regular basis but I had to take a slight detour from my normal daily route. I located a privately owned HPCL pump a few metres away from my office..very convenient indeed..and the people who owned the pump seemed very genuine. I had been filling up over there for the last 3 months and noticed that the FE of my Baleno which used to hover around 11 kpl, was gradually going down and had reached 10 kpl and was going down further. I searched for all the possible reasons other than fuel quality (as I felt the owners could be trusted) and thought that traffic could be one of the prime reasons. But I was taking the same route everyday and I was getting 11 kpl with the normal traffic variation. I decided to switch back to my regular pump to ensure that fuel was not the issue...and voila...my Baleno's back to 11 kpl. I would'nt want to cast aspersions on the owners of the pump who I still feel are not the culprits. In all probability it is enroute adulteration which they are unable to detect.

6th October 2006, 10:17	#35 (permalink)
Floyd de Souza BHPian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Mumbai Posts: 163	I endorse Sportive's and Vipers view fully that filling fuel at a reputed/coco/reliable (whatever you may call it) pump has a substantial impact on FE. I have experienced it first hand recently. I used to fill up at the HPCL COCO outlet at Bandra on a regular basis but I had to take a slight detour from my normal daily route. I located a privately owned HPCL pump a few metres away from my office..very convenient indeed..and the people who owned the pump seemed very genuine. I had been filling up over there for the last 3 months and noticed that the FE of my Baleno which used to hover around 11 kpl, was gradually going down and had reached 10 kpl and was going down further. I searched for all the possible reasons other than fuel quality (as I felt the owners could be trusted) and thought that traffic could be one of the prime reasons. But I was taking the same route everyday and I was getting 11 kpl with the normal traffic variation. I decided to switch back to my regular pump to ensure that fuel was not the issue...and voila...my Baleno's back to 11 kpl. I would'nt want to cast aspersions on the owners of the pump who I still feel are not the culprits. In all probability it is enroute adulteration which they are unable to detect.