Is expensive petrol better

[firefighter]

2.42 quid/ litre? FUUUUUK That's $5.8NZD/ litre.

What? Only if your spending N.Z earnt currency........

[quickbuck]

What? Only if your spending N.Z earnt currency........

That's right... else it is just under 2 and a half quid....

[LBD]

95 is 22 Kyrgyz com per liter over here...lucky I dont have to buy it at that price either.............(22 com = NZ85c)

[Drew658]

I put 95 octane fuel in a Chinese scooter and the fuel filter melted. The rest of the fuel system nearly did the same and the scooter stopped running. Can't trust gas like that.

[Owl]

I put 95 octane fuel in a Chinese scooter and the fuel filter melted. The rest of the fuel system nearly did the same and the scooter stopped running. Can't trust gas like that.

So that's the fuel's fault? Nothing at all to do with poorly manufactured Chinese rubbish?

[Madmax]

Yup, it is because the Americans use MON (Motor Octane Number) rather than RON (Research Octane Number).

MON is always a lower number for exactly the same fuel.... I'm sure you can google it to find out the way MON is worked out.
I could quote from memory, but it was a while ago...

yanks use PON

http://www.btinternet.com/~madmole/R...RONMONPON.html

[bryce]

i just filled the tank ,then one day the tl started missing got stuck on one of the bridges north of dannevike .took 5or6 tri,s ,to get up the hill,would only run at full throttle .toped up on 91 in waipuck ran sweet ,talked to my mobil owner he said petrol octan drops in storage so when i filled 96 from the out side pumps it may have less than 91 octane as most people us 91 at the in side pumps (close to the door ) the tanks are then emtied and filled with fresh gas the out side tank mayonly be topped up .

[p.dath]

i just filled the tank ,then one day the tl started missing got stuck on one of the bridges north of dannevike .took 5or6 tri,s ,to get up the hill,would only run at full throttle .toped up on 91 in waipuck ran sweet ,talked to my mobil owner he said petrol octan drops in storage so when i filled 96 from the out side pumps it may have less than 91 octane as most people us 91 at the in side pumps (close to the door ) the tanks are then emtied and filled with fresh gas the out side tank mayonly be topped up .

I don't know if you've seen a service station getting their tanks filled - but they don't empty the tank. They just plug the tanker in, and let gravity pull the petrol from the tanker to the storage tank.

I would be surprised if any service station had fuel that was that old. Next thing they'll be selling stale fuel.

Sounds a bit suss that explanation to me.

[bryce]

the mobil in town is small.owner op ,he hasif i remeber write 10,000l tanks and sells about 9,000l 91 2,000l 98 and gets the 91 filled and 98 as requiered but he say,s at same bigger place with 24 hr and the manager not all way,s around just get topped off

[p.dath]

the mobil in town is small.owner op ,he hasif i remeber write 10,000l tanks and sells about 9,000l 91 2,000l 98 and gets the 91 filled and 98 as requiered but he say,s at same bigger place with 24 hr and the manager not all way,s around just get topped off

I assume those are weekly sales figures. So that means the 98 tank is turned over every 5 weeks.
If he only keeps the tank half fill because of low sales, then it would turn over every 2.5 weeks.

I still find it very hard to believe the claim that his 98 octane fuel is in fact less than 91 octane because of age. If it is, he just broke the law ... he is clearly mis-representing what he is selling.

I did a quick Google on it as well. Couldn't find anything to suggest petrol will drop 7 on the RON scale in a 5 week period.

[bryce]

i didn,t fill at his station .i was only talking about it to him thinking i had got a bad batch of gas , he said what he thought it was more likely to be the problem ,he gets filled once a week,i thick the idea is that at a bigger place a 10,000 l tank having 2,000 l added a week could have gas years old so yes stale gas in the out side tanks that may have less than 91 octane

[geoffm]

I don't know if you've seen a service station getting their tanks filled - but they don't empty the tank. They just plug the tanker in, and let gravity pull the petrol from the tanker to the storage tank.

I would be surprised if any service station had fuel that was that old. Next thing they'll be selling stale fuel.

Sounds a bit suss that explanation to me.

Probably more likely rubbish in the fuel or water, which blocked the pilot jet or summat. I have had this before.
Geoff

[LBD]

Probably more likely rubbish in the fuel or water, which blocked the pilot jet or summat. I have had this before.
Geoff

Any one understand ISO particle counting? (I do so dont try to explain it to me, it took a we while and you would only confuse me again )

Clean fuel (petrol or diesel) oficially is 18/16/13. The diesel I manage is 27/26/23
That means it contain 512 times the number of solid particles in the 4, 6, 14 micron sizes than should be found in clean fuel....That Kazakhs for you(Borats cousins) It also has visible water droplets.