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Postby Adamal » Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:35 pm

Dave, switch back to eliminate the possibility of something magically fixing itself!

If it turns to crap again, you know its the gas, if it doesn't... Then maybe there really is a Hogwarts!
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Postby Mr Revhead » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:12 pm

well i have felt a difference between shell 95 and mobil 95, the mobil being heaps better! feel it on the butt dyno and on the gas gauge!

as far as 98 goes i used mobil as thats all thats avail close to home. never noticed a diference when i have run bp though
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Postby Simon K » Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:51 pm

Mr Revhead wrote:

as far as 98 goes i used mobil as thats all thats avail close to home. never noticed a diference when i have run bp though

There's 2 BP's within 10 mins of your place. One in Plimmerton and the other in Jville. Both have 98 and would be "on the way" to most places you're likely to go.
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Postby Mr Revhead » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:10 pm

:lol: farked if i know where they are though
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Postby Simon K » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:55 am

BP...
Jvilles one is on the main rd. Turn off motorway, left at roundabout and its just past the enormous Woolworths. You can get straight back onto the motorway afterwards and continue on into town. Kinda like a big pit stop off the m'way into town.

Plimmerton one is almost easier still. Jump on the motorway north from the 'Rua. Got through the Paremata roundabout(still heading north)and it's about 300m up the road on your left.

Both are 5-10 mins from home and on your way to either Welly or North
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Postby flygt4 » Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:08 pm

our wagon has the factory jap fuel economy/av. speed lcd screen.
there is a clear difference of approx 2km/L between 95 and 98 :?
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Postby itsamirage » Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:25 pm

flygt4 wrote:our wagon has the factory jap fuel economy/av. speed lcd screen.
there is a clear difference of approx 2km/L between 95 and 98 :?


yeh that would make sense, comparing mobil to bp to shell to caltex etc, not 95 to 98.. 8)
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Postby RH9 » Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:26 am

Ultimate in the UK is now 100 octane - was re-released earlier this year in a new formula.

I get less knock using Mobil 8000 although sometimes the BP is fine.

I used to fill up at BP Wairau Rd and have had some really bad batches so I dont go there anymore.
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Postby Lith » Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:45 am

RH9 wrote:Ultimate in the UK is now 100 octane - was re-released earlier this year in a new formula.


I'm pretty sure it would be too much to ask to get that here, though it would be really nice. I'm still umming and ahhing about what fuel to have in the tank when I get my car tuned in light of the amount of variation there seems to be in what you get from the pump.
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Postby TTEETT » Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:02 pm

Ran my old car (Supercharged Altezza) on the Dyno with both Mobil and BP 98 and found no real power difference, but the car ran a lot better and showed higher lean out thresholds using BP Ultimate, go figure.

Plus Mobil 98 is pink and pink is for girls. :oops:
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Postby Lith » Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:17 pm

TTEETT wrote:Ran my old car (Supercharged Altezza) on the Dyno with both Mobil and BP 98 and found no real power difference, but the car ran a lot better and showed higher lean out thresholds using BP Ultimate, go figure.

Plus Mobil 98 is pink and pink is for girls. :oops:


Random. I always thought it was purple... maybe I am colourblind. That would explain a lot of things.
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Postby TTEETT » Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:12 pm

Lith wrote:
TTEETT wrote:Ran my old car (Supercharged Altezza) on the Dyno with both Mobil and BP 98 and found no real power difference, but the car ran a lot better and showed higher lean out thresholds using BP Ultimate, go figure.

Plus Mobil 98 is pink and pink is for girls. :oops:


Random. I always thought it was purple... maybe I am colourblind. That would explain a lot of things.


No your not colourblind, the colour of the gas itself is pink, the pump handle is purple (international Colour of the Homosexual).
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Postby sergei » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:27 pm

in Soviet Russia homosexual colour is cyan.
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Postby Jazza » Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:22 pm

TTEETT wrote:
Lith wrote:
TTEETT wrote:Ran my old car (Supercharged Altezza) on the Dyno with both Mobil and BP 98 and found no real power difference, but the car ran a lot better and showed higher lean out thresholds using BP Ultimate, go figure.

Plus Mobil 98 is pink and pink is for girls. :oops:


Random. I always thought it was purple... maybe I am colourblind. That would explain a lot of things.


No your not colourblind, the colour of the gas itself is pink, the pump handle is purple (international Colour of the Homosexual).


Actually its orange this year... dont ask me how i know
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Postby Alex B » Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:25 pm

Last i herd purple is the colour of sexual depression. Arrrh purple is my friend.
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