what petrol are you using for a b18c2?

[F.O.B Squad]

BP Ultimate and Mobil 8000 are winners for me.

V-Power is good but i notice it tends to run out quicker compared to the above two.

V-Power racing 100 octane was really good, shame they don't have it any more.

[ChiLLie]

yeh, gutted how that 100 octane stuff disappeared as fast as it came..

[Jonno]

I use V-Power as BP Ulitmate is over priced, where i am and i dont have access to Mobil 8000

[koevi]

Shell V-Power ftw

[morgs202]

Yeah, I only ever use 98 RON, either shell or BP.

[SHI-FTY]

mobile s8000 ftw!!

[Chriskoss]

I think you guys are all forgetting petrol companies are monopolistic competition where their products are pretty much standardised.. the 4c a litre discount is to encourage more sales and does not mean at all their fuel is inferior to other companies. For example you get an extra 2c/l off if you spend 2 dollars in store, due to the fact that oil companies dont really make all that much on petrol sales (a few c/litre) and they rely on purchases in store to make most of their profit.

If you have followed the long and boring media debate on ethanol fuel, the benefits do not outweight the savings, as using e10 burns more fuel and fuel consumption goes down.. therefore not worth saving the extra 4c/l as you are actually paying more for an inferior product.

Same goes for high-octane fuels.. although its cleaner for your car.. if your looking at fuel consumption.. the higher price does not mean you get THAT much better fuel economy and the price does not outweight the benefits.

So all in all just stuck to regular/premium unleaded unless your really fussy about your car

[SHI-FTY]

I think you guys are all forgetting petrol companies are monopolistic competition where their products are pretty much standardised.. the 4c a litre discount is to encourage more sales and does not mean at all their fuel is inferior to other companies. For example you get an extra 2c/l off if you spend 2 dollars in store, due to the fact that oil companies dont really make all that much on petrol sales (a few c/litre) and they rely on purchases in store to make most of their profit.

If you have followed the long and boring media debate on ethanol fuel, the benefits do not outweight the savings, as using e10 burns more fuel and fuel consumption goes down.. therefore not worth saving the extra 4c/l as you are actually paying more for an inferior product.

Same goes for high-octane fuels.. although its cleaner for your car.. if your looking at fuel consumption.. the higher price does not mean you get THAT much better fuel economy and the price does not outweight the benefits.

So all in all just stuck to regular/premium unleaded unless your really fussy about your car

...loll

[Chriskoss]

Whats funny.. oh is it funny to you because you can't concentrate your puny mind for 1 minute to read a big scary paragraph :P

[NSPYRE]

Mobil Synergy 8000.

as others have noted, got less km on V-Power and was pretty dirty... carbon build up on rear bar was substantially more using V-Power.

[SHI-FTY]

this is for u u nerd!



if you dont realise we have (except u) high-compression engines in our bay and these engines we have are designed to run on premium fuel, which will add additional power and allow the motor to run smoothly and efficiently! if u were run lower the RON recommended even in the owners manual it says noticible decrease in power and efficiency and it also says we are aloud to use lower octane if it doesnt cause engine knocking and engine knocking will occur if u put a load on ur engine and its not good for your car

In your case smart ass your car was designed to run on lower RON therefore if you were to increase the RON you will have no additional power or even any benefits for that matter

[NSPYRE]

^^^ the benefit is in the cleaners that the higher octane petrols contain. im based in canberra and there's a fellow i kno that did a test on a 4AGE using regular unleaded and Optimax (now called V-Power). here's the findings:

during my experiments i filled up the tank to overflowing point (~45L) with each type of petrol and drove the car until it was bone dry (i have always got a small jerry can in the boot)

basicly after running through a few tanks of each i came to this conclusion:
i always get about 520km from a tank of optimax and around 420km from caltex regular.

now because im a tight ahhs i want to get every last bit of value for my money so i sat down and thought about it.
optimax costs ~$1.50
regular costs ~$1.30

obviously optimax is more expensive so its straight away the least atractive of the two.
but is the extra milage i get from it worth the money spent?

on average (current costs) it costs me $67.50 to fill up with optimax and $58.50 to fill up with regular
seeing as i get 520km from optimax and 420km from regular
i pay $1.298 per km for optimax
and i pay $1.393 per km on regular

so despite the fact that it initialy costs more its actualy cheaper to get optimax
and probably better for my car too.

obviously every car is going to be different
but food for thought i guess.....