Optimax Fuel

[Wogboy]

Hey guys, I will be holidaying over there later this month and was just wondering what the availability of Optimax or similar was like in the country areas of Vic, NSW and QLD. It's not even available here in Tas. Am looking forward to getting over there and trying it out, but once there I want to keep using it for the duration of my trip. Thanks for any info.

[666DAN]

Hard to remember a time where I was unlucky enough to find a servo that had run out? Even out where I live Optimax has always been on tap when I've gone to fill up.

[Nexus9]

BP Ultimate is better

[predator]

well i recently got back from driving to melb to qld, through inland country NSW (newell hwy) and all of that.

i was driving the old box which runs regular, so can't say I was checking every stop, but most of the larger ones along the way had Premium of some type (maybe not optimax, but premium 96RON).

You may find it hard to find Shell servo's the whole way, but if you pace it properly you could probably get away with just Shell. Through NSW at least, it may be 100km between fuel stops.

If you go along the Hume, or more towards the coast, you should have even less problems. Most of the big roadhouse stops have had Optimax for many years now.

[MELV]

BP Ultimate is better

true that !!!

or maybe calex check out this from another forum

I was talking to my engineer friends from the Caltex refinery at Kurnell last night. They said that Caltex Vortex 98 is actually about 101 octane at the pumps and will stay that way for about 6 months. Apparently they are having trouble blending it so they are erring on the high side on the octane rating. Also told that the Kurnell refinery makes BP Ultimate for the east coast.

[BelGarion]

optimax has sulphur in it im told, i know someone who put it in his road bike and it ****ed things up badly for him.

stick to bp ultimate, i do

[Nexus9]

optimax has sulphur in it im told

Tha would explain the rotten egg smell that emanates from the exhaust of cars that use it :ghost:

[NismoGirl]

My car isn't a rotten egg

A lemon maybe, but no rotten egg.

For some reason my car won't run on Ultimate, so I've always put Optimax in it and when I've desperately had to, run Ultimate when theres no Optimax.

[Nexus9]

My car isn't a rotten egg

A lemon maybe, but no rotten egg.

For some reason my car won't run on Ultimate, so I've always put Optimax in it and when I've desperately had to, run Ultimate when theres no Optimax.

Com'n now Erin, why do you think every one tries to pass you on cruises???

[hungry6]

My car run on a mixture of optimax and what ever i can find, no specific fuel requirement. Simply TOO HARD!!!

[NA_R33]

QLD Clatex fuels are not 98RON, only in NSW and some other states we got the shit end of the stick.

Just about everywhere in NSW sells 98RON fuel including Woolies and 7-11's

[Del Sol]

Pretty sure you can check which garages have optimax on the shell website

[wados]

mate go the caltex while you are down in vic and nsw withe 98 ron it is the better option but when you get to qld use BP, i dont think to much of optimax ran it in my old skyline and made it run like shit and smell, put bp in it and ran really well

[85URK]

maybe sum1 should do sum research and find out some sort of tests done on all brands. and see what results were found??? just a though.

[Yotis]

BP ultimate is definitely the way to go on QLD, I aint too clear on the optimax issue but mechanic told me do not run optimax on any turbo car due to a few very very bad experiences.

[NismoGirl]

85URK, good thinking. Now off you go and research it

www.google.com

[dangerous_daveo]

Dude if your driving up it wont matter too much running the lesser fuel, just put the boost down and dont boot it. As most of its highway driving anyway it shouldnt be too bad for a tank or two.

[Insomniac]

I usually run Optimax on the Sunny Coast, but there have been more than a few times that Shell has run out of it coastwide, so I have resorted to Ultimate. I haven't really tested it thoroughly, but I'm sure the Optimax seems to last longer...

[twoquik]

I Always Run Bp Ultimate And How Good Has The Price Of Fuel Been The Last Couple Of Days.

[strutto]

BP Ultimate for the Skyline, the Corolla, the bikes, the mower and the weed whacker...