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Also, just another note on something that really peed me off last week.
Someone told my partner that her car (2003 Rover 25 1.4 K-series) isn't compatible with the new E10 fuel and asked her "What are you going to do?" It transpires they had read some garbage article online by some would be journalist who fancies themselves to be the next Jeremy Clarkson. Basically, they had clearly looked on the gov.uk compatibility list and seen that the information for Rover is to not use it - which is just the government covering their a**e. That really annoyed me, because people less knowledgeable will read that and panic, thinking their perfectly serviceable Rover is completely incompatible with the new fuels at the pump. I reckon careless, appallingly researched 'journalism' like that could bring a lot of MG Rover branded vehicles into the scrapyard despite being perfectly serviceable and running fine on E10. I would also like to thank Dorchester2 for his account of his experience running these cars on higher ethanol blend fuels over the years. It's your posts on the topic here and on another MG Rover related forum that put my mind at ease on this topic. The fact you have run your K-series engines on E85 fuel for years with no negative side effects just reinforces the fact that nobody has anything to worry about. Last edited by Gigagator; 2nd September 2021 at 08:12.. |
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So is it OK to use the new petrol in a 1.8t? I thought it would have detrimental effects???
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More than that. As I'm not myself a petrolhead and might be seen as a non reliable authority despite my experience, I can tell you that I've just done last July a remap. Don't laugh! The aim was just to get a better torque in the low revs and uprate a little the bhp eventually. Then I went to a very reliable garage I had been pointed to by my local vintage car club president & secretary: "LR Performance" which is the only local technical team allowed to intervene on the Albi race circuit (together with the racing teams of course). BTW they are specialized as well to help any compliant engine to be fuelled with E85. When I told them my KV6 was already E85 compliant and that I'd already done the job myself (by a different way than theirs indeed!), I saw that the technician wasn't very keen. Then he told me they had to comprehensively verify my engine and my car before anything else, which they did. In the end he came back to tell me that my car was in very good nick for its age (1999) & mileage (191k km / 120k mls), and that they accepted to do the remap I'd asked for. Only then! You know they don't want to be involved in a damaging or destroying process... With a very good result: 80% of the max torque since 2k revs and +7 bhp: blissful! Hence I think it's a good evidence made by a well known French professional garage in its area that a KV6 Rover / MG can even be higher ethanol blend fuels compliant without any damage. I hope all that may definitely help lots of mates in Britain to feel safer & relaxed about E10 in the future for their pride & joy. The rest is only gossips & scaremongery IMHO...
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Arnuad. I am sure you have put everyone in a good place with your experience of E10 petrol. I must admit that I was a little thoughtful about the use of this new way of making money for already rich multi national companies. We are at the end of the line so have to suck it up. Thank you.
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Read Arnuad’s post 19. It runs cooler not hotter.
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I also understand that a higher ethanol content has a cleaning effect on the internals of the engine. Can anyone confirm?
Though I doubt an extra 5 percent will make much of a difference, that placebo effect makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when I fire a car up with a tank full of juicy E10 fuel. |
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