In the Netherlands there are only 2 or 3 refineries. ALL brands big and
small get their fuel from these. It even goes as far as trucks from
Shell, Esso, Texaco, BP etc supplying other brands or each other.
Supposedly the "specially formulated and branded" dopes are added after
the fuel has been loaded, Yeah.
Differences in the various brands? My foot!!
I do not expect it to be very much different in any country across the
globe.
Any of you really had a proven problem because of modern fuel, other
than dissolved coatings and rubber hoses causing some blockages and
gumming up?
Premium fuel? It is a lot more expensive. Results? Negative. Not even
the real octane rating is higher. Sometimes I even doubt if the product
at the pump is different. So keep your money in the pocket and use the
regular fuel. If your engine really requires high octane fuel, get real
tetra ethyl lead from a can and add to your fuel or get the special
racing formulated fuel if you can.
I have never had any problems with the cheapest brand fuel I could find
in any of my cars since the mid sixties when I started driving. When
leaded 98-100 octane (EU) fuel was phased out I had to retard some but
not all of the ignitions of the older cars, that was all.
Kees Oudesluijs
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