# govtbody Says:
November 5th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

just to highlight all pumps for all petrol stations are verfied by the govt , hence no companies will cheat the consumers ie less litres as per indicated in the pump.

i hate all these jams, kana in aug, 1 left turn 20mins!!!
since then i don’t pump this brand

All custody meters (such as those in petrol stations, bunkering stations, etc) in Singapore need to be certified by the Weights and Measures Office in SPRING, and is governed by the Weights and Measures Act. This is done so that companies will not deliberately tamper with their flowmeters to cheat consumers.. That’s for oil..

However, I’m not sure if this applies to the mama shop in our neighborhood where they sell their nuts / beans / sweets and stuff by weight.. I heard some of them actually tamper their scale to give the perception that customers get what they pay for, while in fact we get less..

Sharing my 2 cents

If you FC dropped becos of the C ham promotional petrol which could be old stock, it could be true since they never tell you what they REALLY give you. They give you petrol, you give them money, simple.

In fact why i continued with C ham was that a week before they announced the new fuelsave petrol, i topped up and realised that my FC shot up to 16.4 km / litre considering i dun really change my driving habit, drive to and from work, pick up wifey and head home.

then i continued and the FC has stabilised to 15.5 km / litre. I din get the chance to get C ham petrol at $1 / litre

either the new fuel save is working or we cant be sure they done sth to the pump meters? Can they ? I do not know since i have spotted a stick on small metal plate that says the pumps have been certified by some weights and measure authority of singapore. Any bro or sis can verify on this ?

So SUPPPOSE, ASSume they give you more petrol than their pumps indicate, some sort of a discount still, you will logically calculate that your FC has improved. Then , there is no breakthrough in technology ? I don’t know man!

jus my 2 cents worth

Sg road condition also vary fm day to day. Eg raining, PIE jam, u blame lousy fuel for poor economy? Eg today sway. Kena every traffic light on way to work. U blame lousy fuel again?

There is no way we consumers can replicate the consistent the lab conditions to verify what the oil companies claim.

i experience loss of power with Shell 98 $1-promo. then got once experience car jerking while moving off, like as if going to die on me, maybe left 2 bar of petrol. i using esso 5000 previously. now after changing back to esso 5000, no such problem.

not worth saving $1, if it is going to damage my engine. i don’t trust shell anymore. After some thinking, when Shell is losing money, how can Shell gives out $1 petrol… fishy… wierd… my poor car

So far it seems that Fuelsave 98’s capabilities are very arbitrary. There is no clear outcome whether it really does conserve petrol in real life usage. At the “up to one litre” savings for a minimum of fifty litres pump (read “at most 2% savings under test conditions”), my feel is that it really will not give us any benefit in Singapore’s start-stop traffic conditions.

Just go ahead and pump from individual’s preferred petrol vendor for the next topup. The term fuelsave is just another marketing tactic like techron, synergy, etc.