What Brand Of Fuel

[Kimberley Scott]

I am getting a fuel card for my XR6T, so that leaves me with some tough decisions. What company makes the best premium vs price and availabilty. Any help would be appreciated. I plan on doing the majority of driving on the eastern sea board, but a trip to Tassie and or Darwin is not off the cards.

[Goldbullet]

BP Ultimate seems to be the most consistant 98 ron

[Kimberley Scott]

Planning on keeping the car standard as it is going to be leased, do I really need 98 RON or is 95 acceptable?

By the way I have never liked Shell products.

[Antisocial]

I have a Caltex card and Vortex (95) is availible most places and I have been able to fine Vortex 98 before the tank is empty every time so far.

With the last XR I had a BP card and I found BP servo's few and far between once you get off the beaten track.

There was always one in town but it always seemed way out of the way at the far end of town, off the main road....

[dutchie]

I would look at Shell Optimax......

Never a problem and seems to be good fuel as well.

Heaps of Shell as well.....

dutchie

[maximum_velocity]

I would get a mobile card, there is heaps of servos available and there 98 ron seems to be the best IMO. BP ultimate howver is better but as YCL said there servers are few and far between

[Power]

Man, this is impossible to answer:

Let's put it this way. I have never seen anyone provide scientific evidence one way or the other that any particular 98 RON fuel is better than the next.

It's all:

1) seat of the pants, or;

2) "the 'octane' dries outta that brand 'cause it's a manufactured octane, not refined octane", or;

3) My dyno tests were better on X brand.

I am yet to see any proof one way or the other.

Me? I use Caltex Vortex 98 *ONLY* because after going through God knows how many threads on so many different boards, someone said that with the Vortex 98, the RON (Research Octane Number) was a minimum figure, but only an average with the other brands. Sure enough, in a very vague way the Caltex site does seem to say that it is a minnimum (maybe).

Also I had a good dyno test on Vortex 98.

So, my reasons are not scientific.

I think the best post I saw was someone stating that in 'X' refinery in QLD both Shell Optimax and BP Ultimate were produced - SAME FUEL.

And that in refinery 'X' in NSW the same occured.

I checked this out with two ex-Shell employees I work with (one having been at the very highest levels of management) and, yes, in certain areas one brand is the same as the next.

So, COME ON! SOMEONE must have something hard core or we are going to have these threads forever with a new brand winner every time.

[Mr Turbo]

BP Ultimate ONLY for me... My car was tunned on BP so I will only use BP. I only fuel up from one BP servo so if you get a batch of bad fuel I know where it was from.

Rob...

[Falchoon]

I am getting a fuel card for my XR6T, so that leaves me with some tough decisions. What company makes the best premium vs price and availabilty. Any help would be appreciated. I plan on doing the majority of driving on the eastern sea board, but a trip to Tassie and or Darwin is not off the cards.

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Not sure about Darwin but Tassie only has 95 RON PULP and the majority of servos I saw while on hols there last year seemed to be Caltex.

Standard XR6T will run fine on 95 RON. Maybe a very slight drop in performance or power, barely noticeable.

Stick with the name brand fuels such as Shell, Caltex, BP etc and stay away from no-name cheaper independent ones like Liberty as some of these have been known to allegedly have dodgy additives such as Ethanol.

There have been several similar threads in the past where people have asked which is the best brand fuel but I don't think there was a definite answer. And with a stock XR6T and unless you are racing all the time or chasing ultimate HP on the dyno it's not really going to make much difference. Probably best if you check out your own local area where you will be doing most of your driving and get the fuel cars for the most abundant servos.

[bs888]

I use Motorpass! Get whatever fuel I want when I want and as it's after Tax I don't pay any bloody FBT!! WIN WIN as far as I'm concerned!!!!!