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I decided to put $10 into of Mobil 8000 into my civic from Braddon 2 weeks ago as BPU was out for some reason. Even though it only a 1.5L honda, it stills runs really zippy on 98. I noticed it was sluggish and i mean like a truck and it even F'ed up my fuel sender, so now when it gets empty is jumps up to half full and sticks there till have about 1 L in there and it starts dropping down. I filled up with Vortex (96) and it was back to its little zippy self. I don't completly trust Mobil as it has never felt 100% right.

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Just letting everyone know not to expect V-power for a while yet, if anyone understand how V-power is made a bit on the filtration pumping system blew up...so that has to be replaced and they need to order it custom made from China or Germany or wherever and as it is rather...huge...they need it shipped SAL...it has yet to even arrive in Australia.

If you have a preference for V-power and are in sydney, the 7/11 petrol stations stock it as their premium.

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I just make a note to stay away from woolies and coles. I used v power and it seemed fine. Then again so did mobil... I always fill up on mobil cos my car seems to like it the most. I filled up with BP while i was in sydney the other day, really dosn't feel any different. Today I filled up at woolies with their vortex 98, and again, i didn't notice any difference, if anything I think the car feels better than it did with BP. So what Have I gained? That most 98's to me seem the same, unless u have hooked up a comp to the engine management and gave us figures that are off by .0001 or something.

Very confusing when people say my car runs crap on this, this is crap cos it blows engines up, don't use this cos my mum said not to.........I say run ur car on racing fuel if ur that picky, or did your friend say his lancer ran like shit when he filled up with it?

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I just make a note to stay away from woolies and coles. I used v power and it seemed fine. Then again so did mobil... I always fill up on mobil cos my car seems to like it the most. I filled up with BP while i was in sydney the other day, really dosn't feel any different. Today I filled up at woolies with their vortex 98, and again, i didn't notice any difference, if anything I think the car feels better than it did with BP. So what Have I gained? That most 98's to me seem the same, unless u have hooked up a comp to the engine management and gave us figures that are off by .0001 or something.

Very confusing when people say my car runs crap on this, this is crap cos it blows engines up, don't use this cos my mum said not to.........I say run ur car on racing fuel if ur that picky, or did your friend say his lancer ran like shit when he filled up with it?

What are you saying? I'm confused.

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I guess he's saying that the quality of fuel you get depends on SO many things that you can't really go on the stories given here (or anywhere else really). Because it varies depending on:

- The original content, who's sourcing it (Shell, BP etc... all comes from the same place originally, but I guess they place orders of varying quality).

- The particular servo you fill up at.

- Whoever's running the servo that month/week

- Whoever decides to top up the premium tanks with the regular stuff after hours (I know a person who use to do this)

- How hard your engine is tuned and therefore how susceptible it is tu fuel RON levels.

- Partly impacted by the remaining fuel from your last load (unless you ran it completely empty).

I'm paranoid about my car, and mechanic knows it, so gonna run a dual boost system and high boost will be 17ish (I think). Low boost for when I have to use crummy/suspect fuel. The way I see it, only absolute way to be safe from poor fuel is to use octane booster every load, or get your engine tuned so that if you DO get a poor load, there is some lee-way and your engine will handle it (ie a safe tune rather than a hard one).

Is there such a thing as a home-based RON testing kit? lol What's it mean if the stick goes blue? :)

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What are you saying? I'm confused.

Was pissed off cos last night i drove around for 15 mins trying to find 98 ron fuel, finally had to get it from woollies caltex (vortex98), never really wanted to fill up at woollies but I did anyway. I was surprised to find my car felt pretty much the same, if anything slightly more beefier.

Just found it funny how many people wrote things like, i filled up with this and it ran shit. Really unless you have used the petrol numerous times can you say its shit.

I think there should be no more posts containing:

"The other day my brothers, cousins, friends, cousins cat said it didn't like woollies petrol." - sounds pretty childish and unsupported lol, not really worth putting people off a certain petrol just because you don't like it.

Rather perhaps let people know where good fuel stations are, Ie if you are around Erindale, the best is Mobil, if your around Tuggers shops go to Shell.....

Unless your engine is tuned to run on a specific fuel, in which case what fuel runs good for you prob doesn't mean anything to me.

Hope that makes sense.

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Was near empty yesterday and I was in Fyshwick. Out of 4 servos, none had 98 ron. So I thought I would fill up on the way home (southside) Went past Tuggeranong, which doesnt have 98 octane stuff, shell is out of vpower, woolies dosn't stock 98. Had to go to calwell to fill up. Is there a shortage of 98 or something? ALot of places simply don't have 98. i know when i was in gunghalin (lost) I found the first servo as was about to run dry, and it didn' thave 98. It's happened to me alot!

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I guess he's saying that the quality of fuel you get depends on SO many things that you can't really go on the stories given here (or anywhere else really). Because it varies depending on:

- The original content, who's sourcing it (Shell, BP etc... all comes from the same place originally, but I guess they place orders of varying quality).

- The particular servo you fill up at.

- Whoever's running the servo that month/week

- Whoever decides to top up the premium tanks with the regular stuff after hours (I know a person who use to do this)

- How hard your engine is tuned and therefore how susceptible it is tu fuel RON levels.

- Partly impacted by the remaining fuel from your last load (unless you ran it completely empty).

I'm paranoid about my car, and mechanic knows it, so gonna run a dual boost system and high boost will be 17ish (I think). Low boost for when I have to use crummy/suspect fuel. The way I see it, only absolute way to be safe from poor fuel is to use octane booster every load, or get your engine tuned so that if you DO get a poor load, there is some lee-way and your engine will handle it (ie a safe tune rather than a hard one).

Is there such a thing as a home-based RON testing kit? lol What's it mean if the stick goes blue? :)

Haha just abit paranoid ;-)

I agree with the octane booster, would be nice, although when you fill up you pay like 70 bucks for the tank, + 20 bucks for the booster. Pretty freaking expensive lol. Wish I had money :-(

If the stick goes blue, means ur gonna be a proud dad of hopefully some more horses....

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