ATTENTION FI car owners. Gas stations selling low octane gas from premium pumps
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ATTENTION FI car owners. Gas stations selling low octane gas from premium pumps
This maybe needs to be a sticky. Also posted this on g35driver.com http://g35driver.com/forums/lounge-o...ium-pumps.html
Yesterday I went and filled the car up from a gas station I used before. The car was past E and I got half a tank of 93 octane. I DIDN'T turn the car off. After a couple of minutes of driving I noticed that it was somewhat sluggish unlike before when it was on E. I suspected the octane rating right away even though my car has an Air/Fuel sensor that is out which is expected at the mileage.
Considering I paid almost 3 ****ing dollars for 93 and POSSIBLY got 87 or maybe even 85 I kinda want my money back.
I search a bit and found this.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...24/detail.html
http://www.khou.com/news/Records-sho...-70233502.html
"The first time the driver was told to move 85 octane to the 87-octane tank, he said he "looked at the trainer and said, 'You can't do that, that's downgrading, that's contamination.'"
"11 News identified a total of 16 gas stations across Harris County. For instance, at the Conoco station at 13102 Bissonnet, records show 700 gallons of regular unleaded were dropped into the super unleaded storage tank on Oct. 17, 2009. At a Phillips 66 at 8203 Fondren, 1,000 gallons of regular unleaded were poured into higher-octane tanks on Oct. 10, 2009."
Yesterday I went and filled the car up from a gas station I used before. The car was past E and I got half a tank of 93 octane. I DIDN'T turn the car off. After a couple of minutes of driving I noticed that it was somewhat sluggish unlike before when it was on E. I suspected the octane rating right away even though my car has an Air/Fuel sensor that is out which is expected at the mileage.
Considering I paid almost 3 ****ing dollars for 93 and POSSIBLY got 87 or maybe even 85 I kinda want my money back.
I search a bit and found this.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...24/detail.html
http://www.khou.com/news/Records-sho...-70233502.html
"The first time the driver was told to move 85 octane to the 87-octane tank, he said he "looked at the trainer and said, 'You can't do that, that's downgrading, that's contamination.'"
"11 News identified a total of 16 gas stations across Harris County. For instance, at the Conoco station at 13102 Bissonnet, records show 700 gallons of regular unleaded were dropped into the super unleaded storage tank on Oct. 17, 2009. At a Phillips 66 at 8203 Fondren, 1,000 gallons of regular unleaded were poured into higher-octane tanks on Oct. 10, 2009."
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You can get an octane tester but I think it's expensive.
http://www.shatox.com/octanetester.html
http://www.shatox.com/octanetester.html
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in for the data logs showing retarded timing due to knocking from low octane.
This maybe needs to be a sticky. Also posted this on g35driver.com http://g35driver.com/forums/lounge-o...ium-pumps.html
Yesterday I went and filled the car up from a gas station I used before. The car was past E and I got half a tank of 93 octane. I DIDN'T turn the car off. After a couple of minutes of driving I noticed that it was somewhat sluggish unlike before when it was on E. I suspected the octane rating right away even though my car has an Air/Fuel sensor that is out which is expected at the mileage.
Considering I paid almost 3 ****ing dollars for 93 and POSSIBLY got 87 or maybe even 85 I kinda want my money back.
I search a bit and found this.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...24/detail.html
http://www.khou.com/news/Records-sho...-70233502.html
"The first time the driver was told to move 85 octane to the 87-octane tank, he said he "looked at the trainer and said, 'You can't do that, that's downgrading, that's contamination.'"
"11 News identified a total of 16 gas stations across Harris County. For instance, at the Conoco station at 13102 Bissonnet, records show 700 gallons of regular unleaded were dropped into the super unleaded storage tank on Oct. 17, 2009. At a Phillips 66 at 8203 Fondren, 1,000 gallons of regular unleaded were poured into higher-octane tanks on Oct. 10, 2009."
Yesterday I went and filled the car up from a gas station I used before. The car was past E and I got half a tank of 93 octane. I DIDN'T turn the car off. After a couple of minutes of driving I noticed that it was somewhat sluggish unlike before when it was on E. I suspected the octane rating right away even though my car has an Air/Fuel sensor that is out which is expected at the mileage.
Considering I paid almost 3 ****ing dollars for 93 and POSSIBLY got 87 or maybe even 85 I kinda want my money back.
I search a bit and found this.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...24/detail.html
http://www.khou.com/news/Records-sho...-70233502.html
"The first time the driver was told to move 85 octane to the 87-octane tank, he said he "looked at the trainer and said, 'You can't do that, that's downgrading, that's contamination.'"
"11 News identified a total of 16 gas stations across Harris County. For instance, at the Conoco station at 13102 Bissonnet, records show 700 gallons of regular unleaded were dropped into the super unleaded storage tank on Oct. 17, 2009. At a Phillips 66 at 8203 Fondren, 1,000 gallons of regular unleaded were poured into higher-octane tanks on Oct. 10, 2009."
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I had a gas station down the street from me selling gas with no ethanol(93), so I filled up there a couple of times, but my car always ran funny. the last time I stopped when I needed to get gas quick, it was now only 91 octane. I'm pretty sure that's what they sold me the last 2 months, and the price never changed either(2.99/gal)
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I remember when I was a teenager working in a Mobile station we ran out of regular and the owner pumped 300 gallons from the premium tank into it? I do know that when refining gas they target a minimum octane rating, that said it's possible regular 87 may be a little higher than 87. The sump of fuel tanks at gas stations actually loose suction with 300 to 500 gallons left in them so this does happen where they put regular in them hoping that the remaining premium fuel sweetens the regular fuel enough. Maybe they should go back to color dyed fuel again...
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I used to use literally 2 types of gas stations, but I noticed I would run through the tank faster with one or get slight pinging at times with the other after a full up, I switched to Shell and am going to stick with that, been good thus far. I usually avoided them since they were slightly higher than other stations but you get what you pay for. There's not much room for error if your tune is borderline/tight with lower than normal octane.
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This has been going on for literally decades. When I was in high school my buddy had a job pumping gas at night, and his boss used to give him an envelope with cash in it to give to the tanker driver with instructions to fill the regular tanks and dump whatever was leftover into the super tanks.
He would then have an envelope for the state regulator to "overlook" the degraded super fuel when inspection time came.
I know laws are alot tougher now but $ always rules.
He would then have an envelope for the state regulator to "overlook" the degraded super fuel when inspection time came.
I know laws are alot tougher now but $ always rules.