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Gas Grade 87 89 or 92 in 2000 AWD?

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Old 12-16-13, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by kalali
Interesting. Our Sate of New Jersey is not even listed...Go figure...
Originally Posted by lexus114
Because not one station sells pure gas over there.
There used to be a few places (don't remember their names, never went there) that sold ethanol free gas in NJ over a year ago, look's like they don't anymore.
Old 12-16-13, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by hypervish
There used to be a few places (don't remember their names, never went there) that sold ethanol free gas in NJ over a year ago, look's like they don't anymore.

And here in PA where I live, not one station sells pure gas. Only 87 Octane....
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Originally Posted by hypervish
There used to be a few places (don't remember their names, never went there) that sold ethanol free gas in NJ over a year ago, look's like they don't anymore.
We do have 90 octane marine (no ethanol) gas here in South Florida at some stations. I have bought that and dumped in some octane booster, but didn't really notice an effect, but likely have to run a few tankfuls of that to see the difference.
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As soon as the EPA stopped requiring it here Chevron quit bringing it up. We actually had 92 octane before then....now we have no ethanol and only 90 octane.
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My understanding is that the %ethanol will be going up every year.

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Old 12-23-13, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by salimshah
My understanding is that the %ethanol will be going up every year.

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wow.... 10% ethanol is already causing problems for some cars... 15% or 20% will probably kill off many cars on the road. Oh wait... is this plan funded by the auto industry and the US government to get people to buy more new cars?


as for 93-octane gas, I heard somewhere that it is "better" for the oxygen sensor and/or fuel/air sensro on cars that don't require 93-octane.... don't know how true that is, as I heard it from the service manager at a Lexus dealership in LA area.
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