Shortage of Premium Unleaded

[Type R Positive]

They said it was because they stopped digging for 98 Octane because of the financial crisis.

ROFL!!!

[Type R Positive]

No shortage here in WA, I can still get it at my little shithole of a town.
But I guess they do make it over here and all.....

[buddah51au]

The Euro is designed to run on 95 & does so with no problems, so I can't see the point of spending extra for 98. Personally I use Caltex Vortex 95 only, the car runs great while returning unbelievable economy.

[nesterjester]

personally i think its starting to pick up ...
i live on brisbanes south west, and around the oxley, sherwood, indooroopilly, forest lake, mt gravatt, sunnbank, calmvale, browns plains, I have experienced the "pump not in use" tag on many of the 98 octane pumps.
Last week, was in chermside, and stopped at the caltex servo there, no 98 octane.

I've used 98 ever since I've got the car. Maybe its a sign to get on the 95.

[kraiye]

is that why fuel prices havent gone under $1/L for the past few days!!!

???
I guess you're not in Brisbane?

I'm a dedicated Vortex 98 user, but have been hard pushed to find it anywhere lately - thanks to the "mishap"

Shell Canon Hill seems to have a steady supply of V-Power though, similarly priced. I won't use BP out of principal - bloody rip off!!

This Wednesday Caltex Morningside had ULP @ 98c (94 with a docket)... BP Salisbury was 111c for ULP - now, justify that for me!!!!

[EUR003act]

if you can only get lower RON fuel, dont worry about adding octane booster (repeated use can apparently wear out your injector orings)... just dont put the engine under heavy load or high rpm... ie: dont use full throttle, and dont rev its **** off! simple

as for the ecu retarding the ignition when using poorer fuels, yes it will if it detects knock... but it doesnt then reset back to its original higher performance mapping when you go back onto 98RON, it stays at its new "safe" ignition...

[BiLL|z0r]

As for the ecu retarding the ignition when using poorer fuels, yes it will if it detects knock... but it doesnt then reset back to its original higher performance mapping when you go back onto 98RON, it stays at its new "safe" ignition...

So if you have to put 91 ron fuel in (All caltex and BP servo's in the Nerang area still have no 95 and 98) then it will stay retarted forever? How do we get it back to it's former glory then?

[Type R Positive]

So if you have to put 91 ron fuel in (All caltex and BP servo's in the Nerang area still have no 95 and 98) then it will stay retarted forever? How do we get it back to it's former glory then?

Disconnect the battery to reset ECU.

[EUR003act]

So if you have to put 91 ron fuel in (All caltex and BP servo's in the Nerang area still have no 95 and 98) then it will stay retarted forever? How do we get it back to it's former glory then?

just dont put the engine under high load/rpm causing it to ping... if you dont flog it, it shouldnt ping... meaning the ECU wont retard

you could possibly unplug your MAP sensor, placing the car in limp mode, temporarily retarding ignition lol but then you cant rev above 3,000rpm...

if it does retard, you can take it to honda and have an idle relearn procedure done, this will start the ECUs self learning process all over again... all good!

Disconnect the battery to reset ECU.

euro has EPROM memory in its ecu, it will not forget its long term idle/ignition/maps by disconnecting the battery...

[tron07]

has anyone noticed that with the recent drop in normal unleaded prices, 98ron has jumped up from the normal 10c or 11c price difference.

been to a few mobil's and caltex which previously has 98ron 11cents more than 90ron unleaded but now have jumped to 14cents and 13cents

yeap... It used to be 10 cents more then the normal RON92, now its like 14 cents more

[tony1234]

yeap... It used to be 10 cents more then the normal RON92, now its like 14 cents more

Yeah i noticed too,robbing bastards.

[Crapdaz]

tis phuckte!