Having just bought my first Golf G60, as I was waving goodbye to the previous owner, he shouted "Dont forget she will only run on Optimax" As I'm now need to fill up...... Question......Is it really necessary to spend that bit extra ( I don't mind ).....Or will she run just as well on ordinary juice.....What do you think
there used to be a guy who posted on here that was a fuel tester. his advise was Texaco, Total and Esso. cant remember exactly why, but thats what youll find if you search
Do a search on a previous post regarding an article in fast ford magazine regarding the amount of octane contained in retail petrol, as they tested all major brands and chains. Optimax (V Power) came out on top iirc. I swear by Shell. I throw the standard stuff in as my car seems to run on that just as well as optimax. Poor grade petrol in a good engine can cause pinking and poor performance. On the subject, does anybody use octane boost at all?
i'm appreciating the difference of premium over regular, and the various merits of the premium octane stuff, but as a general rule is any high octane fuel better than the best 95 octane stuff? i have a friend who likes clubcard points and i said to him that tesco super is not as good as regular shell. was i right? i appreciate the differences in the premiums stuff, i only use shell too, but was curious about the difference between 'bad' premium and 'good' regular. cheers
http://www.clubgti.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=31757&highlight=texaco+total thats the one. god knows what to beleive tho. mine goes well on tesco99, if anything i lost mpg on optimax
apparently too low an octain level can cause the head gasket to fail eventually-i think i read that in golf+. i ran my 8v, and now run my 16v on nowt but optimax/v-power.
OT: Adam, you didnt happen to sell a set of VR6 BBSs in august this year, which you previously had on a green mk3 16v?
i know 2 lads from our dealership that work at shell research centre, 1 works there on a permenant basis and the other 3 weeks on and 3 weeks off, they both service and strip vw engines which are run on different fuels to find out if it can effect engine wear and internal cleanliness after 50k on engines run on standard fuels the engines show signs of wear and build up the engines are then rebuilt and ran for another 50k on optimax and are then stripped and checked again, on stripping down the lads have told us most of the build up has been cleaned off and engine wear is no more than before and the only differing factor is the fuel used first fuel is standard supermarket fuel second fuel is optimax needless to say everyone in our dealership uses shell when filling up
I usually water my fuel down a bit first, helps it go a bit further. I had a suspicion supermarket fuel was poo. Ive been using Tesco's super unleaded for a while now as its close to me. Im going to revert back to using optimax again me thinks.
I think it's a bit overblown....... 8g of particulates every 50 litres? So Joe Public runs his car on supermarket fuel, ten tanks of fuel later he has 80g of grit in his fuel filter? 125 tanks later he has a full kilo of grit in the fuel filter? Sounds a bit dodgy to me.......
I read a review in october 2006 evo (096). Essentially it said V-power kicks a**, and is only second to BP Ultimate 102. V-power does have a RON (research octane number) which is 99 as opposed to Optimax's 98. V-power not only helps clean engine valves even more efficiently. Also it has something called FMT (friction modification technology) which reduces friction between the top piston ring and cylinder wall, lessening energy loss and increasing power. V-power is produced EXCLUSIVELY at Shell's Stanlow refinery in Cheshire - need i say more.....?
evo appologised about 2 months later for the amount of shell advertising nearly taking over the whole mag haha
