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View Poll Results: What Petrol Do You Use? | |||
Shell V Power (Optimax) 98 RON | 37 | 16.16% | |
Caltex Vortex 98 RON | 31 | 13.54% | |
BP Ultimate 98 RON | 74 | 32.31% | |
Mobil 8000 98 RON | 16 | 6.99% | |
United E10 95 RON | 10 | 4.37% | |
Independant Servo E10 95 RON | 6 | 2.62% | |
Shell/BP/Mobil Etc 95 RON (Non-Ethanol) | 14 | 6.11% | |
Shell/BP/Mobil Standard Unleaded 91 RON | 21 | 9.17% | |
E5/E10 Standard 91 RON Unleaded | 7 | 3.06% | |
Shell V Racing or United 100 RON | 1 | 0.44% | |
Other Unleaded | 12 | 5.24% | |
Voters: 229. You may not vote on this poll |
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16-12-2008, 09:50 PM | #1 | ||
Wheel Wally
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With all the talk about ethanol and different fuels I thought we should put it to vote.......
What does everyone use?? |
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16-12-2008, 09:59 PM | #2 | ||
149 rwkw of Style
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Whatever's handy as long as it's 98
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16-12-2008, 09:59 PM | #3 | ||
Wheel Wally
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See Similar Thread In Which Discussion Was Raised
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11243642 |
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16-12-2008, 10:04 PM | #4 | ||
BF XR6
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Western Australia
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anything 98 usually. i wont put that other crap in to saves a few cents.
on a happier note. filled the commodore from bone dry to full for $49.80 today!
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16-12-2008, 10:10 PM | #5 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2006
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BP Ultimate, it works so I'll stick with it.
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16-12-2008, 10:12 PM | #6 | ||
Regular Member
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Location: Northside Brisbane
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Vortex 98, cause i sell it so why go else where to buy fuel
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16-12-2008, 10:57 PM | #7 | ||
BFII XR6
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Caltex Vortex 95
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16-12-2008, 11:04 PM | #8 | ||
FALCON PAWWWNCH!!!
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BP ultimate. Used it for years in the MR2 GT and found it to be the best. So ill stick with it.
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16-12-2008, 11:21 PM | #9 | ||
Cobblers!
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Location: The Shire, NSW
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BP Unleaded 95 for the Falcon. My EF doesn't like 98 octane, but runs nicely on 95. I wouldn't put 91/Ethanol in the Lawn Mower, such is my disdain for the quality of the lower grades of fuel.
My X5 gets whatever 98 octane is closest to it when it needs filling. Usually, its Shell Optimax (whatever it's called now), but it seems to like and run better on BP Ultimate.
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16-12-2008, 11:27 PM | #10 | ||
Its yellow, NOT green!
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Only ever use 98 octane. Either Shell or Caltex, sometimes BP. Depends whats convenient.
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17-12-2008, 01:46 AM | #11 | ||
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The silly thing is for people who don't want to run any ethanol in their cars is that BP ultimate has ethanol in it, as do the vast majority's of premium petrols. Judging off my experience with reading's taken off the wideband o2 permanently in my car, Mobile synergy has the least amount of ethanol in it. Yet most find it doesn't perform as good as the others, why? No/less ethanol of course.
I believe BP ultimate to have 4 % ethanol in it.
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17-12-2008, 04:27 AM | #12 | ||||
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Quote:
From BP themselves: Quote:
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17-12-2008, 07:39 AM | #13 | ||
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Where's the diesel and LPG options? I don't use unleaded except for a small amount in my LPG Falcon.
Pug = Diesel EL = LPG XE = 98 Ron, but as it's not driven, it doesn't get much fuel.
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17-12-2008, 09:15 AM | #14 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Location: Sydney, NSW
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Anything 98RON... but mostly I use BP Ultimate just because the BP servo I go to is conveniently placed.
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17-12-2008, 10:03 AM | #15 | ||
Professional Mouse Jockey
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: SE Vic
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I'm with sgt doofy wheres the LPG option? I use Mobil LPG and will use BP or Caltex if necessary.
Apart from that I just run Mobil 91 in my 3V. I stay clear of anything Shell! Shell LPG is garbage and I have also had pinging issues with Shell 91. I have run Optimax, Mobil 8000 (I think thats their 98) and Shell 95 and get no better performace or decernable fuel economy benefits so I just run 91. My 3V is drinking LPG most of the time anyway.
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17-12-2008, 10:51 AM | #16 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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I generally run Caltex Vortex 98 as the Caltex servo is right near my work, however I have run BP Ultimate and Shell V-Power as well from time to time. I only run premium though and have done since I got the car.
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17-12-2008, 11:49 AM | #17 | ||
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5.4 GT - Interesting apparently it is a new improved bp ultimate recipe, I mate of mine had a servo about 2-3 years ago and had a doco from bp stating that bp ultimate had a very low percentage of ethanol in it, so I assume they must have removed it now, either way i would like to see some independant testing on all the different fuels to see exactly how much ethanol is in them these days.
I have noticed that fuel varies a lot from servo to servo, i lost approx 100km's to a tank when i started filling up at a different caltex servo from the normal one i goto, i then went back to the normal caltex servo i was going to and got my 100km's back.
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17-12-2008, 12:09 PM | #18 | ||
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we found we got less k's per tank in our CRV when we tried the E10 stuff which wasn't justified by the couple of cents price difference,so wont use it, and definatly WONT feed the Sprint or my 440 with it.
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17-12-2008, 12:24 PM | #19 | ||
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110 octane only for me
LPG
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17-12-2008, 12:58 PM | #20 | ||
Marko
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Our account is with shell, so no choice really.
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17-12-2008, 01:46 PM | #21 | ||
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found running E10, my average fuel consumption was 11.8L/100km
95 octane, 11L/100km 98 octane, 11.3L/100km
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17-12-2008, 02:44 PM | #22 | ||
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was using Caltex 91 but have started using BP Ultimate in the AU, well worth the extra 10 cents
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17-12-2008, 02:56 PM | #23 | ||
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Location: Melbourne
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Both FG and XY run on Mobil 98 or BP ultimate..... No difference in my cars between the 2.
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17-12-2008, 03:52 PM | #24 | |||
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17-12-2008, 04:33 PM | #25 | ||
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always gone for caltex 95/98
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17-12-2008, 04:44 PM | #26 | ||
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i use united E10 98 ron, as this is what i had my car tuned on and when i change between other 98 rons i dont notice any different between them at all.
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17-12-2008, 05:16 PM | #27 | ||
Starter Motor
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I use the normal unleaded from my local United servo up the road which works fine for me.
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17-12-2008, 05:58 PM | #28 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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BP ultimate, only because i save 5% on it using the citibank BP mastercard, otherwise i swear mobil 98 feels better
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17-12-2008, 06:12 PM | #29 | ||
Regular Member
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Mobil 6000(95RON)
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17-12-2008, 06:43 PM | #30 | ||
The Vengeful One
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Either BP 95 or 98, depending on how wealthy i feel at the time lol!
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