Member Offer: My Esso Card

Posted on 22/08/2019 11:52 by Slatept

Further to my previous post. I've just spoken to the UKs Financial Conducts Authority, Pump-King ( the company you deal with for the fuel transactions) are not authorised by them which basically means they have no power over the company. People, be very aware of this company. They do not have phone numbers you can contact them on and in my case they have robbed me of £67.94 with little legal power to get my money back. Come on caravan club you should be protecting yourselves and dis-associating the CAMC from this second rate company.

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Posted on 11/07/2019 23:01 by kevinwarrington

I obtained a card when the offer was first announced. It took a while for the card to arrive, then it was replaced with a new card and I never got around to using it, mostly because the nearest garage to home is a supermarket and it generally has the lowest price and frequently special deals. Our last trip was from Hampshire to Scotland; further than we can possibly do without refilling at least once on the journey. On shorter trips, we refill during the stay. The big advantage as I see it with a card of this type is that you can fill up at motorway services (and equivalent) and pay within a penny or so of supermarket prices. And there generally isn't a queue - unlike some supermarkets where you have to queue to get onto the forecourt, let alone to a pump!

As far as I can see, it works well, We saved between 3p and 25p per litre on the pump price for branded fuel. It may just be a coincidence, but our fuel consumption while towing decreased from around 25mpg to 30mpg on similar journeys using Esso. Caravan is a Bailey Unicorn 3 Cabrera and tow car is a Mercedes GLC220d

Posted on 26/09/2019 15:11 by Rod235

I have been running my Toyota Landcruiser on super market diesel for a number of years and suddenly became away that it was not starting up as quickly so I booked it in to my local fuel injection specialist who I have been using for the past 35 years, the fitter had a quick look round under the bonnet then asked me what fuel i was using and I told him my local super market. at this he smiled and told me to go away and to use premium fuel for a few weeks and see if this cured the problem. Not only did it cure the starting problem but increased the mileage when towing my van from 24 mpg to 29 mpg.so the Esso card not only saves me money on using premium fuel it is better long term for the fuel system, I duly rang the fitter back to thank him for his help and he stated it was false economy to run on low quality diesel long term especially on later model diesels, but then again who would pay £60k for a motor to run on cheap fuel ?

Posted on 30/09/2019 15:49 by MalcMc

My company car sometimes has a lumpy feel, but when I go to premium brand not only does it go away, mpg goes up, only issue is work complained about extra cost so back to lumpy driving, but I will try in MH and monitor if benefit.