View Poll Results: Gas station
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Gas station
#16
Lexus Test Driver
Primarily BP, as it closest to my house. If im out i try to find a station thats not too shady looking. Also use premium majority of the time. I dunno if its all in my head, but when using regular my car doesnt feel the same.
#18
Lexus Champion
iTrader: (2)
Sunergy. It's a private station that is about 3 blocks from me. Consistently about 10 cents cheaper than anything around me. Funny thing is, a tanker was filling the station's tanks. The side of the tank was blank, but the small sticker on the back of the tank had exxon/mobil on it. Probably same fuel. Been using it for 3 years without any issues.
#19
Tech Info Resource
iTrader: (2)
All the stations get all the same base stock. Each brand adds its own additive packages (or not). The only thing that's important - it needs to be uncontaminated and the right octane. The brand really and truly does not matter nearly as much as they would like us to believe.
#20
Lexus Test Driver
#22
Good Economy with money for Great Gas: Chevron
Bad Economy with no money for Cheap Gas: Arco.
Arco for the longest time. Will start doing Chevron in a year or so, hopefully.
Bad Economy with no money for Cheap Gas: Arco.
Arco for the longest time. Will start doing Chevron in a year or so, hopefully.
#25
Lexus Test Driver
#26
Out of Warranty
So long as it will flow and burn, today's gasoline engines will run on almost any grade of gas. I was told about ten years ago that while my RX would run just fine on regular, that the ECM was set up to default to premium. While torque and hp were probably close, sometimes the engine would stumble on hard acceleration as the knock sensors yanked back the timing to accommodate the lower octane fuel. It didn't do any harm to the engine, but you got a smoother transition to full throttle with premium.
#29
Rookie
iTrader: (15)
BINGO.
All this additive package stuff is nonsense because the concentration level is so low that it has negligible effect on the engine. Hell, I've pulled out my injectors and had it tested. They were semi-clogged, and that's with the car using Chevron its entire life.
A bottle of fuel cleaner, preferably one with high concentration of PEA, will do far more cleaning than a tankful of top tier 1 gasoline.
All this additive package stuff is nonsense because the concentration level is so low that it has negligible effect on the engine. Hell, I've pulled out my injectors and had it tested. They were semi-clogged, and that's with the car using Chevron its entire life.
A bottle of fuel cleaner, preferably one with high concentration of PEA, will do far more cleaning than a tankful of top tier 1 gasoline.