Well, I think 99.2% of us know that higher octane is not any real benefit in normal vehicles that only need 87 Octane fuel.
So let's not harp too much over the Octane of the gas this time LOL
There ARE other differences in GAS other than just OCTANE!
Some stations claim to have better additives in the more costly higher octane fuels but not in the cheaper 87 octane. Also like around here 87 octane regular is 10% Ethanol but sometimes can find Premium in Pure Gas!
Comparing 87 octane Ethanol to 93 octane Ethanol would be Oranges to Oranges.
Comparing 87octane Ethanol to 93 octane PURE Gas may be comparing Oranges to bear skin rugs! IT IS NOT THE SAME FUEL regardless of what the octane is!
Having said that, let's forget the Octane specs and just go with the PURE GAS aspect!
Awhile back I had a post about I tried premium in the 95 1500 at a 66 station because it was supposed to be pure gas and was not happy with it!
Well I complained a good bit and questioned rather it was actually pure gas or not and gave facts about my bike, how it runs on various gas etc..
For awhile the signs for Premium being pure gas were not there I noticed after my complaints, maybe just all of them fell off? LOL
For awhile now I seen the notes about being pure gas for Premium are back, but not tried it in the wing again yet.
Now yesterday the wife screwed up.
Her car has had a miss at idle for a month or more, and at times running HY her car gets a mild vibration like a cv joint going bad ( it's the engine miss doing it)
Well, yesterday morning she was getting gas at the 66 as normal, she messed up and pressed the wrong button and got Premium instead of regular.
She figured the car would run like crap, but actually the car ran better!
She said in a few miles the miss vibration had gone away, and idling the car was now smoother, no longer had that miss.
She called me about 4:30AM to tell me this after driving about 35miles running the Premium LOL
Normally she would not get gas in the morning like that but the car was near empty as we made an extra 75 mile trip in it and had not got gas yet.
I checked the car out a bit last night when she got back to home town and sure enough it was running better. Just went out and started it up cold this morning, about 2AM, and it is idling smooth (no miss) than it has for month or more.
This is a 2000 Dodge Intriped with over 200K, I had changed the oil a few weeks ago and had ran some Seafoam and also Lucas fuel injector cleaner in it, and it still had the miss!
I was about to start pulling plugs, wires and if needed injectors to get rid of that miss, but the cars never off the road long enough when I can work on it. Now in about 10-20 miles or so of using Premium real gas no more miss!
Yes, Yes, I know!
The higher octane DID NOT help anything!
But something DID!
This is not a miss that comes and goes, once it started it has always been there, and now it is just suddenly gone! And there has been nothing else done different for 2 weeks or more which would have been the oil change, and the Seafoam and Lucas was used even before that with no change!
So let's not harp too much over the Octane of the gas this time LOL
There ARE other differences in GAS other than just OCTANE!
Some stations claim to have better additives in the more costly higher octane fuels but not in the cheaper 87 octane. Also like around here 87 octane regular is 10% Ethanol but sometimes can find Premium in Pure Gas!
Comparing 87 octane Ethanol to 93 octane Ethanol would be Oranges to Oranges.
Comparing 87octane Ethanol to 93 octane PURE Gas may be comparing Oranges to bear skin rugs! IT IS NOT THE SAME FUEL regardless of what the octane is!
Having said that, let's forget the Octane specs and just go with the PURE GAS aspect!
Awhile back I had a post about I tried premium in the 95 1500 at a 66 station because it was supposed to be pure gas and was not happy with it!
Well I complained a good bit and questioned rather it was actually pure gas or not and gave facts about my bike, how it runs on various gas etc..
For awhile the signs for Premium being pure gas were not there I noticed after my complaints, maybe just all of them fell off? LOL
For awhile now I seen the notes about being pure gas for Premium are back, but not tried it in the wing again yet.
Now yesterday the wife screwed up.
Her car has had a miss at idle for a month or more, and at times running HY her car gets a mild vibration like a cv joint going bad ( it's the engine miss doing it)
Well, yesterday morning she was getting gas at the 66 as normal, she messed up and pressed the wrong button and got Premium instead of regular.
She figured the car would run like crap, but actually the car ran better!
She said in a few miles the miss vibration had gone away, and idling the car was now smoother, no longer had that miss.
She called me about 4:30AM to tell me this after driving about 35miles running the Premium LOL
Normally she would not get gas in the morning like that but the car was near empty as we made an extra 75 mile trip in it and had not got gas yet.
I checked the car out a bit last night when she got back to home town and sure enough it was running better. Just went out and started it up cold this morning, about 2AM, and it is idling smooth (no miss) than it has for month or more.
This is a 2000 Dodge Intriped with over 200K, I had changed the oil a few weeks ago and had ran some Seafoam and also Lucas fuel injector cleaner in it, and it still had the miss!
I was about to start pulling plugs, wires and if needed injectors to get rid of that miss, but the cars never off the road long enough when I can work on it. Now in about 10-20 miles or so of using Premium real gas no more miss!
Yes, Yes, I know!
The higher octane DID NOT help anything!
But something DID!
This is not a miss that comes and goes, once it started it has always been there, and now it is just suddenly gone! And there has been nothing else done different for 2 weeks or more which would have been the oil change, and the Seafoam and Lucas was used even before that with no change!