What Fuel Do You Use?

[harvyk]

I'm an anything I can find type person, but I like to put through Vortex if I have a choice... Ever since my old car (both of them) ran like a dog on Shell fuel I have tried to avoid it... (Specifically Shell in Dickson, it seemed to be the worst of them all)

[Honest Gaza]

For me, standard Unleaded.

Standard Unleaded returns the same economy as PULP.

98RON gave me a whole extra 2 KW on the Dyno over standard Unleaded.

Not worth the extra cents in my book

BTW Handbook says the Turbo is also tuned to run on Standard Unleaded.

Me too !!!

Been using the standard Unleaded ever since the price became ridiculous. No difference at all to how the car goes. Petrol usage suggests same mileage as when using the Premium.....and like Grass said, handbook advises either petrol is fine.

.....and before you all claim "yes, but your engine will turn to crap and fall out of your car".....there's a hell of a lot of cars out there using the standard unleaded petrol and they don't appear to be falling to bits.

[wild4d]

BP ultimate 98, I've tried 'em all optimax, vortex, it seems to run best on the bp.

[wippdaddy]

I use BP Ultimate cause I'm pretty sure that it is the only 98 ron fuel you can get in Darwin. Does anyone know of any avings you can get with BP fuels cause it sucks paying $1.57/L, the price never drops either. Might have to check out the independants for one of the ethanol blends.

[DaKing]

BP Ultimate seams to do my car fine - hopefully a little cleaner for the injectors than Std Unleaded

Also goes like stink!

[Master G]

Shell here, car was tuned on it and I can feel the difference when I use other fuels. I would rate the ones I have tried in my car as follows:

1. Shell

2. Mobil 8000

3. Caltex 98

4. BP :( Ran like crap on this.

Of course fuels are different state to state and it helps if the servo you fill up from is a busy one as it keeps the fuel fresh

Hume Highway Shell - decent price and on the way to work.

Regards

M G

[neil101]

I use ultimate or optimax get the best economy out of optimax and throttle response seems sharper. Got the best dyno read out on ultimate though so go figure

Neil

[richdave]

I have Caltex and BP fuel cards so I usually use those brands. I will get the 98 (BP) or the 95(Caltex) if the price differential is low, else ULP it is.

If I can't get to either of these I use whatever is next along the road.

That said, I do try to put 98 in at least once a month to keep things clean and have noticed the extra bang for buck but not convinced that it is worth the extra cash. As for better fuel economy... seem a load of ...not in this car, same no matter what I use.

For some reason I "feel" that the Shell optimax is the "smoothest" fuel in my car but I don't make a point of gettting it due to the price and hassle of having to pay up front and claim it back later.

[oldraven]

98 as in Octane? Holy sh*te! The best we can get around here is 93, and that's an ethanol blend.

[XR6TT]

what about this new Ultimate > Premium fuel?