Member Offer: My Esso Card

I’ve never known injectors to need replacing at 50k miles, IBH. It is usually stop, start slow tick-over type driving that causes it. 

NB. Posts littered with smileys = sense of humour. 😄👍🏻

Not a high mileage driver and we have a 19 year old Yaris as a runabout. Our tow car has only done around 82K miles in 14 years.

After receiving my first text advising of fuel price (have had card some weeks) thought i would try it yesterday  ,not a problem, card and pin accepted,just  to see what the payment is now

What you need is a shot of Red-x 

those were the days 

Going back to the way this club originally marketed this offer was I think slightly contradicting itself in its inferred 'members benefit objective' The message that the club begins with is  quote  ' to help drive down on the cost of Touring '. ( However more correctly perhaps this offer actually goes on to more widely potentially  give members 'total motoring fuel costs to include any vehicle the member drives)

This is my own personal opinion for a much less complicated promotion , Actually taking that promotion offer directly in that original headline context I would have  been very happy  to have accepted to have a set % discount applied to Esso fuel purchased on production of  my club membership numbered card  (i.e.similar in principle to various other annual 'club saver offers' already listed for a range of other products and services and visitor attractions )  for my one named main Touring  vehicle.

(Personally I would have been happy for  the discount applied just for my  motorhome thus simply saving on the promised  touring costs as originally advertised)

I would imagine this would either be much too simple an idea that either the fuel company would not be involved enough for their own particular reasons with this Pump King 'marketing /fuel card loyalty/ company'? - or the club would probably claim   could not be administered  for some various  odd reasons.?

(By the way I keep getting texts and emails from Pump King with latest offer prices and emails assuming  I have already received a card informing me another 'replacement' card has been issued. However I have never received a card. It is  also strange that when filling in the original application and then after having second thoughts on ordering the card I only part filled the application form and then I thought I had cancelled it  as it all sounded far too complicated to bother with  as we often combine a supermarket shop with re-fuelling the van often for sheer convenience when we are away .'touring' anyway ???

Supermarket deisel fuel has actually been fine with my motorhome for well over over 12 years The motorhome has more extended running periods on comparative longer journeys and thus produces a higher longer, more effective exhaust expelling temperature. On the other hand we do not choose to use supermarket fuel for our car but always go for the higher grade octane branded filling station deisel as the car  does not have the similar  sustained  longer distance use in comparison on the majority of  car trips.

But  then Motor caravans normally use commercial vehicles as a base vehicle which the engines are designed to run on what ever is "cheapest"

Sorry, never been a lover of tongue in cheek humour! Although the injectors were not necessarly damaged by the supermarket fuel, the DPFs were and because of that I now only use quality diesel.

What vehicle do you drive i have never (so far) had to replace  injectors or a dpf  on any of out diesel tow vehicles,and that is with around 2000  miles per year with the white box on the hook i understand its short trips at slow speeds that do more damage to injectors and dpfs

We're all entitled to our opinions, IBH, and mine is that both DPFs and injectors will be fine on supermarket fuel but slow running will not enable the engine to get hot enough to enable the burn off of carbon. 

Each to their own.👍🏻

I note in the SMS messages from MyESSOCard/Pumpking that there are two prices quoted for each of diesel and petrol. The difference on diesel is currently 8p per litre.

So what is not put into their "standard" product? On the basis of price comparison, it must be an even poorer fuel than the supermarkets have.