Member Offer: My Esso Card

My OH has just got a 5p per litre off voucher at Tesco. Not an ongoing feature but a lot less hassle it would appear.

but where is your nearest Tesco that sells petrol, all the ones i know in our area do not have a petrol station ?

A mile and Sainsburys is two in the other direction, so for me it's a no-brainer'. Then there's Asda only a little bit further. I'm spoilt for choice. We don't do a mega mileage, filling OH's runabout about once a month and the MH's tank has a range of over 500 miles so visits are fairly infrequent.

And there you have it in a nutshell CY.. You have an Asda, so everyone else must fall inline with them on price or they sell very little. You are lucky to be so spoilt. 

Our nearest Asda is 45 miles away, our Tesco has no fuel, we only have Morrison's and Sainsbury's, both are £1.28 for diesel at the moment, strangely they are usually exactly the same, & compared to essocard's £1.25 that means the card for us it is of some benefit.

After having all my injectors relaced and I am now onto my 3rd DPF, I am very reluctant to use supermarket fuels. As I have told by 2 separate garages that it is those fuels that are causing my problems. I therefore stick to Shell or Esso and occassionally use premium to help the engine. I only wish my Esso card would turn up, I have been waiting since 1st December and have been told that I should finally have it by 18th February. When I do get it I will be saving about 3 pence per litre.

use premium always, the extra will be saved with less repairs.

Just as a balance-no repairs, no replacement pieces of kit after 7yrs on S/mkt fuel only. I drive superbly possibly?👍🏻😎

It’s the slow pottering in town journeys that cause the issues, or a clapped engine, Rocky. 

Another vote here for supermarket fuel👍🏻. Obviously being a superb driver helps as well.😚

Given that there seemed to be a few more reports of people successfully using the card again, I was passing an Esso today and thought I’d give it another go... filled up, presented my original pump king card (that I’ve used before and also been double charged on before), but then the pin was not accepted. Looks like I’ll have 3 pump king cards to cut up when I get home - and in future, won’t be as naive to assume that a club promoted scheme is automatically a sound one.

FYI my car had only done just over 50,000 miles when the injectors needed replacing and is certainly not clapped out. And I am a retired driving instructor, so I do know how to drive!!!