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APPLEGREEN Petrol & Diesel sale

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  • #52
    Kamili
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    Mckinley Uninterested Pinball wrote: »
    I notice no difference between any of the different brands in economy or how the car runs. I'd guess that my car should run better on the ethenol added fuel as its desgined to perform better on higher octance but you won't really notice the slight increase in real world driving.

    I did know of a friend with a very high performance car which could only run on e5 as it was mapped for 99 ron fuel. Normal petrol resulted it the knock analyser going crazy under even mild acceleration.

    Subaru,
    had one myself and the smell of applegreen made that knock sensor flip out.

    Older cars are not built to burn the 5% -15% ethanol content in fuels, so they run and burn the fuel badly. Which can cause damage to the car itself.

    Applegreen has a minimum of 5% ethanol, but in reality its possibly way higher, (to keep cost of fuel lower) so older cars struggle to run on it, thus reducing their MPG.


  • #53
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    Posts: 24,714 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Kamili wrote: »
    Subaru,
    had one myself and the smell of applegreen made that knock sensor flip out.

    Older cars are not built to burn the 5% -15% ethanol content in fuels, so they run and burn the fuel badly. Which can cause damage to the car itself.

    Applegreen has a minimum of 5% ethanol, but in reality its possibly way higher, (to keep cost of fuel lower) so older cars struggle to run on it, thus reducing their MPG.

    I think you misread, the car would only run propery on e5 as it need the higher octane which is given with an ethonal mix. Any other petrol need something added to every tank to boost the octane.

    As I said I notice not a single difference between topaz, texaco, applegreen etc from a performance, mpg or how the car runs perspective. I used to buy mostly in topaz as I had a fuel card so it was cheaper, the fuel card discout is not as good and I live close to an applegreen which happens to be very well priced so I now buy all my fuel in applegreen.


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