No love for VONS Gas???

 

anyone dared to try the albertsons gas station on malvern and gilbert in fullerton? it's near my house but im afraid!

 

I'd get shell / arco like 100000 times more likely than those places called "THRIFTY" or whatever random costco/albertsons/wtfpetroleum company. And I usually avoid shell and arco like the plague, since their gas used to make my mom's 1990 BMW 525 ping and knock like crazy. (I don't know how the quality is nowadays since I don't get their gas anymore, but this is my reasoning).

 

Well Arco shares the same truck that fuels Thrifty and other Mom and Pops. I yet to see any other truck refuel Chevron other than Chevron trucks.

 

Hmmm wonder if this is really true. Friend had an 88 Jeep with over 120K and drove it everywhere for long distances, regularly going up and down the grape vine from norcal and back down here. First time he puts Shell in, the engine caught fire when he got back home after he turned the engine off...Jeep completely burned to the ground.

 

what's wrong with costco?

 

Good to know, I guess it's even less likely that I'll be getting Arco in the future. What's with their ATM-only card readers?

 

Hmm, I always thought Shell was supposed to be good and Mobil/Exxon was crap. Also, are you all going off your own personal experiences or some recent study on the different brands of gas?

I'm going to hold off on using Shell and stick with Chevron only until I hear otherwise. I used to be %50 Shell and %50 Chevron.

 

personal experience-
chevron or 76 nothing else
for all you people that put anything else in your car, please stop.

 

Even Mobil???

 

mobil has sucked for a few years now

 

NO man dont tell me that... I've been using Mobil since i got the Z in Sept. Gonna change right away....

 

I've always used 76 since as long as I can remember, and switched to Chevron about 3 years ago...I use both now, whichever station I come to first when I need gas is the one I fill

 

Chevron

 

i recommend everyone runs chevron at least once a month for the detergents.

 

More than once a month since that is ALL i use although if I have to Unocal 76.

 

I use either shell, chevron or 76, which are all in the top tier IMO. This is the first time I've heard anything bad about shell.

More often than not, I'll use costco gas as long as their isn't a long line.

About texaco, I though they merged with shell...

 

cosco is extremely inconsistent, my freinds accord pulls timing half the time he uses cosco, the gas mileage he loses isnt worth the savings of cosco, hooray for engineering students,

 

So... is shell still bad or what? And what makes shell bad and 76 good?

 

My accounting professor owned a chevron station. She told me it was impossible for them to use anything but Chevron gas because Chevron monitors their tanks by satellite and sends a truck to refill once it notices the tanks down to a certain level. So, if the truck comes and the tank is full...chevron knows the station didn't buy their gas and can regulate their asses. places like arco and thrifty call around to find out who is cheaper that day when they need to fill their tanks...so the quality could be good for a lil while or could be so-so....just depends on who was cheaper the day they needed gas. Funny how that works. I believe Costco works the same way as thrifty gas and all those other places....just their station looks cleaner and more well kept...so i think people assume the gas is also.