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Old 04-05-2007, 05:49 PM
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im using SHELL optimax or v power as its called.

Is there any other petrol i can use??

BP....Esso garages ect.

need to drive to Doncaster soon so need to know what alternative fuel apart from SHELL's i can use.
Old 04-05-2007, 06:43 PM
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i always use super unleaded (97 RON) i dont think its desperately important you fill up with optimax EVERY time, my s1 runs fine on any super, would not recomend using regular unleaded unless you really cant help it, thats just my opinion though from experience.
Old 04-05-2007, 07:11 PM
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i use sainsburys superunleaded in mine with no probs at all at 200 bhp and have been for the last seven years
Old 04-05-2007, 11:59 PM
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all on the pump stations... not diesel or biodeisel
Old 05-05-2007, 09:21 AM
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Makes no odds mate - as long as it's unleaded it'll work. Optimax (or V-Power) will give you the best power gains but that's the only benefit. I personally steer clear of supermarket fuels in my S1 but they'll do the job.
Old 05-05-2007, 06:15 PM
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Any unleaded for me. Normally morrisons or Shell as they are the closest and cheapest in the area. Depends where I am and what I'm doing at the time.
Old 05-05-2007, 11:52 PM
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Just wait til BP 102 becomes more readily available
Old 06-05-2007, 05:53 AM
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Yeh..but at what price and how long before that price increases to a stoopid amount
Anyone else noticed the prices have crept up 1 or 2p over the last week or so.
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Petrol prices are forever changing, there was a time when i would go to the cheapest place but it seems to chage daily now so i jsut pull in wherever and dont look at prices

I put some tesco 99 ron in the orion one night because it was about to run out.........
Old 07-05-2007, 09:04 AM
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what do you pay for fuel? ruffly!

we pay around 1Ł pr liter and we have oil in this blood sucking country!!
Old 07-05-2007, 10:57 AM
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its about 90p per litre at the moment for 95 RON

Keeps going up and down, the lowest its been for years is 82.9
Old 07-05-2007, 04:20 PM
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just dont boot it on non super (if you really have to use it)
Old 07-05-2007, 07:37 PM
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Why ? If the car's set-up for normal fuel then it shouldn't matter.
Old 07-05-2007, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Lucid
just dont boot it on non super (if you really have to use it)
Originally Posted by rs shawn
Why ? If the car's set-up for normal fuel then it shouldn't matter.
read the first post, where he says he uses optimax, so Lucid was saying if he has to use lower octane rating fuel not too boot it.

Simple really
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Aah..I thought it was just a general post.
Have this anyway for being a cheeky cooont
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its ok i just take great pride in the fact I KNOW im better than you
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