Chevron bad premium gas at area pumps

ShockWave

Anyone know how long this been happening? I pump with chevron all the time.

Chevron investigates bad premium gas at area pumps - Houston Chronicle

Mt Tam I am

I once used Chevron exclusively.

I have no idea why, other than more profit or honest mistake.

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theDreamer

Considering gas is all the same, it probably is a supplier issue outside of Chevron so will have to track down shipments and what contaminated it.

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ShockWave

I feel ripped off...I'm paying for premium and not getting what I paid for. Can I call and get refund?

theDreamer

It will depend on what Chevron finds, and how bad the situation is.
Many gas stations are independent owners which pay for branding, but Chevron has some say. I would advise keep any receipt that you got from the time you know you get bad gas, and if you currently are running any then add in some octane booster.

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njobe89

who has the best gas -_-

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theDreamer

None, it is all the same (minus the "additives").

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The same company that makes the best oil!

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SouthArk370Z

In my experience, it has more to do with the particular station and not the brand of gas. If they don't maintain their tanks properly, it doesn't matter what the sign says, you're going to get crappy gas. As a rule-of-thumb, if the grounds are neat, the bathrooms are clean, the pumps are nice and shiny, &c (ie, it looks like the owners/operators care about maintenance), the gas is OK.

Don't know if it's true or not but I've heard that most gas stations get their gas from the same refinery, it just has slightly different additives* put in the tanker before they fill it up with the same stuff everybody else is getting.


*As far as I can tell, there's not a nickle's worth of difference between 'em

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Fuzzzy

That's been my experience as well. I just returned from a 4500-mile road-trip family vacation in my wife's Altima. Somewhere about the 1000 mile mark we apparently picked up some bad gas.

At first I thought the CRV (or whatever it's called) transmission was going. A very bad feeling in a very sparsely populated mountainous area far from home. She feared it was a problem with the plugs or ignition coils that she had replaced a few months earlier as the car's behavior was similar.

We eventually figured out that it was likely bad gas. The problem gradually improved as we continued our trip, and we had no issues on our final day (yesterday).

TexasChuck

IMHO ! Stick with the top brands! Try to choose stations that are in busy, well to do areas, that will (most likely) sell plenty of premium and the fuel will stay fresh. (Not Downtown Podunk, Tx).
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Greed

All gas is NOT the same. Don't ever believe otherwise. Some gasolines perform far better than others, even on cars without high compression engines. This I know from experience, from trial and error, from suffering many underachieving automobiles. I had all kinds of trouble with Mitsubishi's high compression Eclipses throughout the 90s and early 2000s.
I've run crap gas in the Z as well and endured inconsistent performance until I discovered Sunoco gas. Now I only put premium Sunoco in my Z and the car runs like a champ, unless its just too hot and too humid.
So, I thought my daily driver 4-cyl Camry LE, not being a performance car, would perform the same regardless of which brand of gasoline I fed it, but I was wrong. I used BP for several months and the engine was not very responsive and performance was... well, the car was just plain slow. Laboriously slow. I figured maybe this was just the way 4-cyl Camrys ran until I happened to use a different brand of gasoline (Hess, I think it was). Suddenly, the engine ran smoother and the car was noticeably quicker. Now I feed my Camy nothing but Sunoco and all is well.
No one will ever convince me that all gas is the same.

Mt Tam I am

Whoever makes it without ethenol.

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jpkirk

I think it depends on the diet. I get varying grades of gas from different food sources so, it's subjective at best. We'll see how it works out at the MAZOC bbq.

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Spooler

I prefer Shell premium. I used to use Ammoco Premium back in the day until BP bought them out. What sealed the deal with BP is the oil spill catasrophe in the Gulf.