New WRX owner/ quick fuel question
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Hi all,
Soon to be the owner of a blobeye WRX after a 6 hour train journey and a 5 hour drive home tomorrow!
Quick question for you though, probably been asked 100 times before too. What fuel do you run your UK spec cars on? I've heard it's good practice to use super unleaded of some sort, problem being I live out in the sticks where good fuel is hard do come by. Will it be detrimental to the car running on regular octane when there's nothing else avaliable?
Cheers
Soon to be the owner of a blobeye WRX after a 6 hour train journey and a 5 hour drive home tomorrow!
Quick question for you though, probably been asked 100 times before too. What fuel do you run your UK spec cars on? I've heard it's good practice to use super unleaded of some sort, problem being I live out in the sticks where good fuel is hard do come by. Will it be detrimental to the car running on regular octane when there's nothing else avaliable?
Cheers
Yup, same up here, rural Aberdeenshire, mostly Shell garages but only sell regular. I shall have to keep a closer eye anyway.
Picked up the car yesterday. Filled the tank with Salisbury's super. Not sure what RON it is as I forgot to check but was pretty cheep at £65. Managed 200 motorway miles to just over half a tank which I was more than happy with.
I then added £20 worth of Morrison's regular as it was the only thing that was open and did a further 80ish miles of highland road on a third of a tank.
I know it's all subjective and early days but fuel consumption was nowhere near as bad as I'd been led to believe. All in all, over the moon with my new purchase.
Picked up the car yesterday. Filled the tank with Salisbury's super. Not sure what RON it is as I forgot to check but was pretty cheep at £65. Managed 200 motorway miles to just over half a tank which I was more than happy with.
I then added £20 worth of Morrison's regular as it was the only thing that was open and did a further 80ish miles of highland road on a third of a tank.
I know it's all subjective and early days but fuel consumption was nowhere near as bad as I'd been led to believe. All in all, over the moon with my new purchase.
Lol, thanks. Now I've got it home I'm hoping that I'll be able to top it up with. V-power mostly when I'm in town but their may be an occasion or two when I've got to use the lower grade stuff. It's hard to grade anything just now as I've no idea what the last guy run it on but after a couple of tank fulls I'll start tracking what I get on my normal commute. It's hard for me to gauge as my last impreza was almost 10 years ago and I haven't had any real performance cars for about 5 
Pics will be up soon after this supposed storm passes and I've given it a good wash
It's mostly standard at the moment apart from exhaust, filter and a remap.
It's supposedly on standard suspension but I'm going to double check that soon, it may be just that I'm old now and have been driving the discovery for too long.
Pics will be up soon after this supposed storm passes and I've given it a good wash
It's mostly standard at the moment apart from exhaust, filter and a remap.
It's supposedly on standard suspension but I'm going to double check that soon, it may be just that I'm old now and have been driving the discovery for too long.
Checked the owners manual today and it advises that you put 98 or higher in or if that's not avaliable to use an additive. I've heard a few horror stories about using BP and some octane boosters so will be sticking with shell/ tesco wherever possible.
If I can average 25mpg (which is looking highly possible just now) I'll be a happy chappy
If I can average 25mpg (which is looking highly possible just now) I'll be a happy chappy
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