98 Octane fuel...

[sultan]

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[quote name='Swindog said:

Just on this fuel thing in the country at the moment, im in the position to say shell and mobil are pulling out of NZ in the next couple of years. Unsure of when exactly.

This will open up Allied Petroleum to step in in their place which will hopefully reduce the price of fuel overall

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I work in the fuel industry and have not heard that. Interesting comments though. Strange that Allied have purchased kaurilands, that deliver their Mobil products, if you are saying mobil are on their way out. And as for Shell, they are rebranding to Greenstone, as far as I am aware. So maybe no "shell" as such but their brand of fuel will most likely stay. Would like to know more...

Shell Todd own Marsden Point, Which inturn sell fuel to BP and Mobil(yes NZ fuel come from the same place no matter who u go too). 91-95, diesel, E10 and Jet/AV fuel come form Marsden. 98 is fully imported. Gulls fuel is imported too.

My current car is E10 rated, but i still use 98. (N/A honda) the cost offset from using cheaper fuel vs. amount of kms you get on a tank, I stay with 98.

TBH the only reason you would bitch about not running a car on 98 is the price. (if you cant get 98 then there no really anything you can do)

If price is that much of an issues that you cant run 98 full time, sell up and get a bike.

I assume your last comment was targeted at performance car owners as not all cars utilise a higher octane fuel

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[quote name='Swindog said:

Just on this fuel thing in the country at the moment, im in the position to say shell and mobil are pulling out of NZ in the next couple of years. Unsure of when exactly.

This will open up Allied Petroleum to step in in their place which will hopefully reduce the price of fuel overall

/quote]

I work in the fuel industry and have not heard that. Interesting comments though. Strange that Allied have purchased kaurilands, that deliver their Mobil products, if you are saying mobil are on their way out. And as for Shell, they are rebranding to Greenstone, as far as I am aware. So maybe no "shell" as such but their brand of fuel will most likely stay. Would like to know more...

Shell Todd own Marsden Point, Which inturn sell fuel to BP and Mobil(yes NZ fuel come from the same place no matter who u go too). 91-95, diesel, E10 and Jet/AV fuel come form Marsden. 98 is fully imported. Gulls fuel is imported too.

My current car is E10 rated, but i still use 98. (N/A honda) the cost offset from using cheaper fuel vs. amount of kms you get on a tank, I stay with 98.

TBH the only reason you would bitch about not running a car on 98 is the price. (if you cant get 98 then there no really anything you can do)

If price is that much of an issues that you cant run 98 full time, sell up and get a bike.

Even then a bike isn't cheaper to keep on the road than a car (I'm talking motorbikes here) costs for registration alone on a 250cc is SUBSTANTIALLY more for than for a car's rego for the same length of time ($74 more in my case), and then you have insurance and protective gear. And bicycles... well we all know how that lot are, and you're pretty fucked if you live in a hilly part of the country or in a sub rural area :

[kingersman]

 ReubenH said:

Didn't see this posted...

http://www.carbibles.com/fuel_engine_bible.html

If you don't know about petrol, read it, all of it.

Basically higher octane = more resistant to det/pinking.

cheers for that reuben!

learn't shit load of stuff from that

[aim]

That guy is pretty onto it, quite interesting brakes page too....

http://www.carbibles.com/brake_bible.html

[QRAF]

I've been told by james at speed-tech to stay away from gull gas so i'll believe him.

I run it on mobil 98 gas and get about 250-275kms for $40 gas as i just reset my km's when i put gas in.

[Koom]

 QRAF said:

I've been told by james at speed-tech to stay away from gull gas so i'll believe him.

I run it on mobil 98 gas and get about 250-275kms for $40 gas as i just reset my km's when i put gas in.

Depends what you're running it in and how its tuned IMO. Gives great results with a good tune.

[sultan]

 QRAF said:

I run it on mobil 98 gas and get about 250-275kms for $40 gas as i just reset my km's when i put gas in.

that's pretty economical. do you turn the engine off on downhills? ;D

[QRAF]

nah but mines nz new ver5, been told its tuned for 95.

[aim]

hmmm

[Swindog]

lmao ;D fuckers....course they know how to fix it...funny though. the leakign wells in paraguay arent mentioned in their reports aye!