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8 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

Dropped to $2.49 three weeks ago.

Then rose back to the long time $2.99

Now for a week averaging $2.79

I buy 89 because the quality of 87 has fallen too far. And with 89, I get much better fuel economy, almost that of 91.

Our Aussie supply is 91, 95 & 98 Octane. I always used to buy 91. Then I was encouraged to buy the E10 which had some bio fuel. Within 6 months our Toyota V6 Prado would not start, it was choking. I called the Toyota service manager, he asked are you filling up with E10, yes. He told me go buy 98 and put as much as possible into tank and some injector cleaner and then try start motor. He said if you get it to run it was cough and sputter but let it run so new fuel and cleaner can get into the injectors. He advised me, never use the E10 because it clogs up the injectors and in time will damage the fuel system - big $'s to repair.

It worked. 98 has been the fuel ever since and never any issues.

Then my local BBQ LPG supplier told me he always filled his cars with 98. His work Ford Falcon ute from new had 750,000 klms, ran like new, oil regular changes oil was near clean, no smoke out the exhaust. Plus more power, no valve pinging under load and better economy than 91 & 95. My daughters filled their little 1100 Toyota with 91, under load it pinged like a sick piano. I put 98 in and some additive, it hummed like a canary and it pulled real hard up hill, and more distance. 

Many years ago over hear we had Standard and Super, I dont know what the Octane was in each grade. I do recall that with Standard our 6 cyl Holden (US Chev blue/grey motors) would ping under load especially uphill.

Same with dad's Inter R190's, with Super the pull and performance under load was far better than Standard. And with a high load fronting a head wind they would top gear easily. Not so with Standard fuel.

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I always put the mid grade gas in the car and the pickup. The car, a 2016 Impala, has the "flex fuel" sticker so it only requires the lowest grade, and the highest octane is recommended in the Nissan pickup. They both run good on it, and I'll put a can of Sea Foam in them periodically.

A gas expert once told me the mid grade and hi-test was the same gas, they just put an additive in the mid grade to make it high test gas.

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Reminds me of the movie "Dave".

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