Transfer your Shell Drivers Club points to another person, and onto Avios, for free

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• Gaetano says:

  25 Jun25 June 04:17

  You should download the Shell app and receive regular offers( Monthly) of bonus points. It’s common to get 100 bonus points simply by filling up with a minimum of 5 litres.

• Nick says:

  25 Jun25 June 05:44

  Their deli2go range of sandwiches are pretty good IMHO and you generally get 50 points (25 Avios) for each. There are points available on some other items, including Costa coffee.

• Lax says:

  25 Jun25 June 05:56

  Can’t see the point here. Shell is usually much dearer than other fuel locations so the points actually cost even more.

  • Matt says:

    25 Jun25 June 07:30

    I rarely fill up at Shell but surely you can appreciate that this is relevant for lots of people including those who expense their fuel to their employer and/or those who have a Shell that is the most conveniently located fuel station for them.

  • Tilly says:

    25 Jun25 June 07:31

    My two nearest filling stations are both shell so i use them for convenience.

  • Mike says:

    25 Jun25 June 07:47

    I travel specifically to Shell garages to use shell V power diesel as it is better for my engine and gives more MPH. With supermarket fuel it really is a case of you get what you pay for

    • Lady Londonh says:

      25 Jun25 June 09:08

      +1

    • Peter K says:

      25 Jun25 June 09:51

      More MPH? Ha ha. A Freudian slip there?

• Nigel the pensioner says:

  25 Jun25 June 06:24

  We all have our own shell plus points cards and they are all auto (sic) linked to the same BAEC account within the family account. There is no link at the Shell end. Each month, a number of Avios get dumped into my BAEC account.
  These Avios are totally free and it is imho incorrect to try to put a cost to them without comparing the relative value of 500 litres of fuel for a £2.50 voucher for over priced groceries from Waitrose!! Likewise Shell fuel which can often be purchased at about supermarket fuel price.
  A Range Rover with a 100 litre tank running on vapours will perhaps cost £1 more to fill at Shell than a supermarket, if the Shell cost is 1p a litre more!!
  Lets not get too “Martin Lewis” here with his free pizza for life suggestions!!

  • luke says:

    25 Jun25 June 06:51

    If you have a real car, please dont put supermarket fuel into it. The fuel is not the same, and could damage your engine. I appreciate if you own a range rover you would like to be able to drive it without breaking down normally. However any other makes German Italian, etc need to fuel from non supermarket stations that includes BP or Shell. There are different additives that dont damage your engine. Even ‘honest john’ in the telegraph tells people this.

    • Roger says:

      25 Jun25 June 07:16

      And which refinery is the different fuel coming from?
      If shell or BP is adding any performance enhancing boosters surely they would be shorting over the roof tops?

      • Peter K says:

        25 Jun25 June 07:28

        Or shouting over the rooftops!

        “Honest John” recommends premium fuels like Shell V-power. Normal fuels are very much the same, as the AA, RAC, What Car etc all say.

      • Andrew says:

        25 Jun25 June 08:59

        Live in Scotland?

        “Grangemouth represents one of INEOS’ largest manufacturing site by volume of products. It is home to Scotland’s only crude oil refinery and produces the bulk of fuels used in Scotland.”

        So essentially it doesn’t matter what flag is on the pumps, the core product (as defined by the RON) is exactly the same.

    • Matt says:

      25 Jun25 June 07:33

      This is simple – all fuels sold in the UK must conform to the relevant British Standards. Therefore are you saying that the British Standard is not fit for purpose?

      • Lady Londonh says:

        25 Jun25 June 09:14

        There’s fit for purpose and there’s better.

    • Ian says:

      25 Jun25 June 07:45

      I only have an imaginary car, so I will continue to fill up at Tesco. 🙂

    • Rob Brown says:

      25 Jun25 June 08:08

      Tesco get their fuel from Esso. I don’t know about Sainsbury’s and Asda but I am sure they also buy from other fuel companies – none of the supermarkets have their own refineries so I don’t see how where you buy it would make a difference.

    • riku says:

      25 Jun25 June 08:40

      The fuel from supermarkets comes from the same refineries. In small countries it’s even more obvious that the fuel has to come from the same place. I live in Finland and we only have two refineries. Porvoo and Naantali. Both owned by Neste. All fuel comes from there whether it’s Shell, Esso or supermarket own stations. The supermarkets here are not importing petrol (which would make it much more expensive than getting it from a domestic refinery).
      On the other hand the management at BP, Shell and Esso are happy for people to think their fuel is “better” than supermarket petrol.

      • David P says:

        25 Jun25 June 10:17

        Yes, but you don’t get Shell/Esso/Tesco/Whatever tankers loading up at the refinery and taking the fuel straight to a petrol station. It goes to a central distribution depot first where some additives get mixed in (these vary across different brands) and then from the distribution depot to petrol stations.

        If you’re Finnish you probably won’t know about the Tesco incident 10 years ago where they mistakenly put too much silicon-based additive into their petrol. This caused customers engines to break because they were gummed up with SiO2. Tesco spent millions on repairs and compensation because it was their error at their distribution centre. Shell, Esso etc. weren’t affected at all, despite the fact that all the brands got the same fuel from the same refinery. There is a difference between standard fuel brands and it’s all down to the additives they put in. Whether or not one is ‘better’ is a somewhat subjective judgement, but there is a difference.

    • the_real_a says:

      25 Jun25 June 12:18

      yada yada yada.. I have run cars on supermarket fuel for 25 years. No issues. Ever.

  • Jenni says:

    25 Jun25 June 08:39

    I have a choice of Shell and Costco, with the latter being 10p cheaper most times. That’s a £10-15 saving a month.

• riku says:

  25 Jun25 June 08:18

  At least when I worked for BP Oil HQ it was common knowledge that all petrol stations get their fuel based on distance from the refinery, not who owns it. The Grangemouth refinery supplies about 70% of fuel in Scotland regardless of what brand name the petrol station operates under.

  • Lady Londonh says:

    25 Jun25 June 09:13

    Then you would know that the difference is in the additives from each brand. Yes of course a lot of the refinery chain may be the same… But I would not put anything except Shell V-Power in my vehicle or BP Ultimate.

    • Mike says:

      25 Jun25 June 12:12

      +1

    • Jeff says:

      25 Jun25 June 17:10

      What about Tesco Momentum (that’s Tesco’s premium equivalent) which is 99 RON. I can’t claim to know anything about it, but a lot of research says it’s actually even better than Shell V Power??

      • Frenske says:

        25 Jun25 June 20:15

        Tesco experts recommend Tesco Momentum! 🙂

• Ian says:

  25 Jun25 June 08:35

  For the past couple of years I have been using Shell V-Power and there is a very noticeable difference in performance. Without knowing the technical details, I believe the British Standard lays down certain minimum criteria for various components of the fuel. If supermarket fuel meets the absolute minimum of every single one, it’s not going to be a great product. Premium fuels include certain additives too which keep the engine running cleanly.

  • IanMacK says:

    25 Jun25 June 09:18

    I’ve been putting Shell V-Power in my diesel Mercedes 3.2CDI now for about 5-8 years (its 15 years old) and saw a noticeable improvement in mpg (up to 45-47 mpg). I wouldn’t put anything else in that one. Still running like the day I bought it new !!
    The range rover runs on Sainsbury’s diesel !!

    • David P says:

      25 Jun25 June 10:03

      V-Power has a higher RON rating than standard fuel (higher CN for diesel) because it’s a slightly different mixture of hydrocarbons to standard fuel, as well as slightly different additives. It is possible to extract more usable energy from a given litre of premium fuel but most normal cars are optimised for 95 RON and can’t adapt to a different mix. Higher end cars have the engine tech to adapt (hence advice for Merc, BMW etc. is usually to go with premium fuel), so I’m surprised you don’t use it in the Range Rover unless it’s ancient.

      • IanMacK says:

        25 Jun25 June 10:24

        RR is 57 plate

    • Frenske says:

      25 Jun25 June 20:24

      Warmer weather tends to improve the fuel consumption!

• Marco says:

  25 Jun25 June 11:15

  OT: It seems that CX has removed all long-haul and short-haul premium availability, leaving extremely limited short-haul Y award availability to other Oneworld airlines, including Avios. (CX changed Asia Miles award chart last Fri)
  Based on flyertalk discussion, the change is intentional and the gone spaces will NOT return to BA and other airlines.

• Graham says:

  25 Jun25 June 14:21

  In 15 years or so of collecting points (Avios and others), hand on heart I can honestly say that Shell Drivers Club is the worst I have come across.

  Clunky website that claims you can transfer to others – yet never happened – so points thus lost

  ‘Bonus’ vouchers that were beeped at the till and never happened…where did they go?

  Shirty replies to any queries/concerns – literally they could not give a hoot.

  In my experience, unequivocally the worst Avios partner hands down.

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