Petrol quality question
Discussion
Hello everybody,
As maybe some know, i own a 4.5 Cerbera and live in France.
Stupid question maybe.
Near the petrol cap, a sticker mentions "only 95 Ron fuel".
I own the car for nearly two years now and put only 98 (it works perfectly with this).
Which quality of petrol do you use ?
And, when you come in France, as we don't have the same quality than in GB (we don't have 97), what do you use in your favorite car ?
I was nearly to use some 95 this we... But, i put again 98 !
Second question :
The normal comsumption - on motorway, at 140 Km/h - (not in town and not a sportive driving) of the car is nearly 340 miles for a full tank. Whant about you ?
I find this quite low in fact knowing the engine size and the power of the car
Cheers
Jerome
As maybe some know, i own a 4.5 Cerbera and live in France.
Stupid question maybe.
Near the petrol cap, a sticker mentions "only 95 Ron fuel".
I own the car for nearly two years now and put only 98 (it works perfectly with this).
Which quality of petrol do you use ?
And, when you come in France, as we don't have the same quality than in GB (we don't have 97), what do you use in your favorite car ?
I was nearly to use some 95 this we... But, i put again 98 !
Second question :
The normal comsumption - on motorway, at 140 Km/h - (not in town and not a sportive driving) of the car is nearly 340 miles for a full tank. Whant about you ?
I find this quite low in fact knowing the engine size and the power of the car
Cheers
Jerome
95 should be perfectly fine.
But be careful you don't put 95-E10 in the car (which I'm sure you already know!)
My car runs fine on 95 or 98, I always use 98 if it's availiable. But in France I really try to stay away form 95 as I once put 95-E10 into my Jag by accident and it struggled to start from cold until I used up the fuel and filled up on non-E10 petrol.
But be careful you don't put 95-E10 in the car (which I'm sure you already know!)
My car runs fine on 95 or 98, I always use 98 if it's availiable. But in France I really try to stay away form 95 as I once put 95-E10 into my Jag by accident and it struggled to start from cold until I used up the fuel and filled up on non-E10 petrol.
aide said:
95 should be perfectly fine.
But be careful you don't put 95-E10 in the car (which I'm sure you already know!)
My car runs fine on 95 or 98, I always use 98 if it's availiable. But in France I really try to stay away form 95 as I once put 95-E10 into my Jag by accident and it struggled to start from cold until I used up the fuel and filled up on non-E10 petrol.
What is the E10?But be careful you don't put 95-E10 in the car (which I'm sure you already know!)
My car runs fine on 95 or 98, I always use 98 if it's availiable. But in France I really try to stay away form 95 as I once put 95-E10 into my Jag by accident and it struggled to start from cold until I used up the fuel and filled up on non-E10 petrol.
Tom8 said:
What is the E10?
Google brings up lots of stuff...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/57954...
About E10
I knew this story.
But, in France, even the "normal" petrol (98 or 95) has some ethanol, less than 5% i remind. Maybe it's the same in GB...
I remember reading once some news about the E10... And the result on caoutchouc tubes is incredible : it destroys them totaly, as it was "eating" them...
Once, i put some E10 in my old 2500M because of strikes (as always in France, i know...) ; the car was really suffering ! No problem with 98 even if the cylinder head is OEM without lead correction ; i put only in "protection" (without knowing if it works or not) like a net with 5 lead balls...
So, never, never, never for the E10 !
Cheers
And i will stay on 98 !!!
I knew this story.
But, in France, even the "normal" petrol (98 or 95) has some ethanol, less than 5% i remind. Maybe it's the same in GB...
I remember reading once some news about the E10... And the result on caoutchouc tubes is incredible : it destroys them totaly, as it was "eating" them...
Once, i put some E10 in my old 2500M because of strikes (as always in France, i know...) ; the car was really suffering ! No problem with 98 even if the cylinder head is OEM without lead correction ; i put only in "protection" (without knowing if it works or not) like a net with 5 lead balls...
So, never, never, never for the E10 !
Cheers
And i will stay on 98 !!!
Gazzab said:
yep - that article sums it up perfectly.thank god I found out the hard way in my old Jag as opposed to the cerb as somehow I don't think the cerb would fair well full of E10..
OP - 340 miles is good and about right if you're on a long run and not planting the right foot much.
Like others on here, I'm usually around the 200-250 mile mark to a tank, all sorts of driving in there apart from stop-start traffic.
As someone who might be using the Cerb in Europe one day, presumably you can get 98 vpower at Shell stations in France without too much trouble?
Like others on here, I'm usually around the 200-250 mile mark to a tank, all sorts of driving in there apart from stop-start traffic.
As someone who might be using the Cerb in Europe one day, presumably you can get 98 vpower at Shell stations in France without too much trouble?
jaydom said:
Hello everybody,
As maybe some know, i own a 4.5 Cerbera and live in France.
Stupid question maybe.
Near the petrol cap, a sticker mentions "only 95 Ron fuel".
I own the car for nearly two years now and put only 98 (it works perfectly with this).
Which quality of petrol do you use ?
And, when you come in France, as we don't have the same quality than in GB (we don't have 97), what do you use in your favorite car ?
I was nearly to use some 95 this we... But, i put again 98 !
Second question :
The normal comsumption - on motorway, at 140 Km/h - (not in town and not a sportive driving) of the car is nearly 340 miles for a full tank. Whant about you ?
I find this quite low in fact knowing the engine size and the power of the car
Cheers
Jerome
Salut Jerome,As maybe some know, i own a 4.5 Cerbera and live in France.
Stupid question maybe.
Near the petrol cap, a sticker mentions "only 95 Ron fuel".
I own the car for nearly two years now and put only 98 (it works perfectly with this).
Which quality of petrol do you use ?
And, when you come in France, as we don't have the same quality than in GB (we don't have 97), what do you use in your favorite car ?
I was nearly to use some 95 this we... But, i put again 98 !
Second question :
The normal comsumption - on motorway, at 140 Km/h - (not in town and not a sportive driving) of the car is nearly 340 miles for a full tank. Whant about you ?
I find this quite low in fact knowing the engine size and the power of the car
Cheers
Jerome
I am like you as I live in Lux. I put 98 in whenever I can.
Unfortunately I had to put some 95 when I was in France but suffered no problems.
I can always drive to the UK, from Lux, on a tank but if I do 140 kph through France then I am stopped by the Police for speeding
Bonne route
Mr Cerbera...
That's so true that we can't go fast no more in France...
Automatical radars, police everywhere, gendarmerie too...
But...
Sometimes i play a game...
I take motorway looking about what exists on the right side for 10 km between an entrance and a way out.
I take the motorway in the other side...
And let the right foot down...
Thay don't have enough time to install it in 10mn...
And after, you have a lot of helps like Coyote with the "resistance" community...
Th eproblem is that if you want to use all these helps... You can't see through the wing screen :
- tom tom
- coyote
- wikango
That's so true that we can't go fast no more in France...
Automatical radars, police everywhere, gendarmerie too...
But...
Sometimes i play a game...
I take motorway looking about what exists on the right side for 10 km between an entrance and a way out.
I take the motorway in the other side...
And let the right foot down...
Thay don't have enough time to install it in 10mn...
And after, you have a lot of helps like Coyote with the "resistance" community...
Th eproblem is that if you want to use all these helps... You can't see through the wing screen :
- tom tom
- coyote
- wikango
jaydom said:
.....Th eproblem is that if you want to use all these helps... You can't see through the wing screen :
- tom tom
- coyote
- wikango
C'est vachement vrai - tom tom
- coyote
- wikango
At least the limit in France is 130 - in Belgique it is 120
( Juste a dire.... "Wing screen" est actuellement "windscreen")
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