Newage UK STI's not on V-Power
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Actually they can, there is no law against selling a car that cannot run 95 ron fuel, Honda sell the S2000 which is 98 ron only, it cannot run on 95 ron, and as super is available to like 95% of the population, its not an issue (and octane booster is freely available from your local car parts store )
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Actually they can, there is no law against selling a car that cannot run 95 ron fuel, Honda sell the S2000 which is 98 ron only, it cannot run on 95 ron, and as super is available to like 95% of the population, its not an issue (and octane booster is freely available from your local car parts store )
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as a very last resort I'd say along the same lines as everyone else, you can use it in the event of when sul isnt available. Personally having lost a 2.5 engine to det due to some **** of a fuel station who thinks its wise to flog std 95 out of the v-power tanks I wouldnt ever use it, I always carry a bottle of octane booster in the event I cant get what I want.
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One of the reasons you see quite a few P1's with engine failures is bad mods and bad fuel, that car has a 100 ron fuel map as standard with broquets to increase the octane rating of the super unleaded fuel to make it up to 100 ron (another car with a warning from Subaru UK to run only 97+ ron fuel)
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A work colleague i know used 95 ron for 60,000 miles in his scoob and i kept saying he would have trouble but he never did an he gave it some welly too. I think so many people do exhaust, induction mods without remaps then combine that with 95 ron is asking for trouble
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Depends on the car, wrx's will run quite happily on 95 ron as that is what they are mapped for, STI's will det, you can even hear it, give me any STI and put 95 ron in it and ill show you what det sounds like
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That is for new age UK STI's, there was a nice post back in 2002 when John Felstead test drove one of the first bugeyed type UK cars in the country and the dealer had put 95 ron in it, he could hear it det, and trust me, you can hear it.
The ecu is good and it can knock back the IAM so far, but its not a miracle worker unfortunately
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PS, a P1 was a UK market car, shame it still had a JDM map
The ecu is good and it can knock back the IAM so far, but its not a miracle worker unfortunately
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PS, a P1 was a UK market car, shame it still had a JDM map
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All this saying my car runs fine on 95 is wishful thinking. sure, it hasn't gone pop, but i bet in a straight drag (against the same car with 99 in it) the V powered car performs best.
Why spend on a performance car and feed it ****e?!
Why spend on a performance car and feed it ****e?!
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One of the reasons you see quite a few P1's with engine failures is bad mods and bad fuel, that car has a 100 ron fuel map as standard with broquets to increase the octane rating of the super unleaded fuel to make it up to 100 ron (another car with a warning from Subaru UK to run only 97+ ron fuel)
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No manufacturer is going to sell a car in the uk that isn't capable of running on 95 Ron. The superunleded blurb is just marketing to make you think your driving a high performance special.
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Nope as Tony already stated the S2000 can not be run on 95.... says so on the fuel flap, in the book and the Honda dealer you buy it off tells you about 3 times before you drive it off the forecourt.
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Anyway, as Arron went through 3 MY02 STI type UK's, post 65 may be of some interest
https://www.scoobynet.com/157721-sti7-bang-3.html
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Oh and just to re-iterate the op was asking the question of newage uk sti's.
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At the end of the day it matters not what you or pslewis say. I obay what the handbook tells me not an annonomous internet user
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Not wanting to be pedantic and it has nothing really to do the the op question. The term Gasoline is not used in commonwealth countrys where petrol or petrolium spirit is used
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This is why I always prefer to buy a fresh import.My type r still had half a tank when it arrived,so I topped up with v power and it will never see any other fuel.
The Honda thing I think is across all the type r's as well.My mates integra handbook says super only.
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The Honda thing I think is across all the type r's as well.My mates integra handbook says super only.
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I'm sure the fuel cap says 98 RON and above only on my hawk. It's only ever had V power in any case.
Quite why someone would buy a performance and then scrimp on the petrol (unless it was an emergency scenario) I don't know! If you don't want to put the good stuff in it, then just get a run around!
Quite why someone would buy a performance and then scrimp on the petrol (unless it was an emergency scenario) I don't know! If you don't want to put the good stuff in it, then just get a run around!
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Read through most of this thread but I think its time I say what I need to and from experience. I had a UK classic. Was told it was always run on high octane. I started doing a serious amount of miles and chucked in anything really from supermarket fuel to high octane. WIth all the driving I noticed the supermarket fuel just didin't cut it but when I went back to using the proper stuff the damage had been done and the engine was just giving up.
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no i didnt guess all that,did some searches on various fuel sites etc.uk cars can run normal unleaded as they are mapped for it...but that doesnt mean its the best thing to do.as far as i am aware its only the sti that has to have higher ron fuel.
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