Ethanol and Aston Martins

[oblio]

Folks

I'm off to the Continent towards the end of next week for a trip down to Bavaria and was wondering if anyone could throw some light on whether the 10% Ethanaol fuel [called E10 fuel I believe] would be OK to use in my 56 plate DB9?

NB I'm sure I started a thread on this ages ago but couldn't find it when I searched.

cheers

Graham

[mikey k]

I put 10 litres in my V8 by accident, no noticeable difference.
Though the V8 does have knock sensors to correct RON changes where the V12 doesn't.
Having said that I don't think that the RON value changes with the Ethanol addition so I can't see it being a problem.

Edited by mikey k on Thursday 14th July 18:20

[Speedraser]

Basically all the gasoline/petrol here in the US is 10% ethanol -- shouldn't be a problem. Some want to raise it to 15% or more, though

[Spongygearbox]

I think this is only a problem for cars before 2000? i have a 95 DB7

[oblio]

I emailed Rick @ DMS and he didnt seem to think it was a problem either.

cheers folks