I swear on my little Cinq's eyes me and my mates use the petrol from a garage around the corner (a BP garage) because it seems to make the cars a little bit more responsive...no sh*t. We swear by it. You really can tell the difference. If you had a tank full of that and then when you needed to fill up used a Tesco or whatever, the car would seem more sluggish. The price is average for normal petrol and it isnt a higher RON. It just seems that it's a little more 'fruity' when using that BP petrol from that particular garage.

Matt

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54 BHP of pure italian muscle

Pychological affect of paying more!

No doubt about it. 95 or 97 fuel won't affect how a small engined car runs.

Having said that I use Optimax in the Brava. It makes me feel good.

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Incidently putting that into your engine might just make a difference...!

all i know is that not only is premium unleaded (whatever brand) more expensive, but its also cut my petrol station choice, as there are only 5 stations in perth that stock the stuff!

I only use 120 octane Avgas, the cinq seems to be running VERY well.

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Home-made induction kit.

Originally posted by my cinq now
I only use 120 octane Avgas, the cinq seems to be running VERY well.

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me wants! me wants!

My uncle buys Avgas for his plane, wonder if he'll let me scrounge a tankful...

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<font color="orange">1994 Punto 55SX, metallic red, small, Italian and beautiful! </font id="orange">

We get very little choice in fuel here, whilst I was driving across the US for a month, I noticed, a few stations with 107 Octane for sale!

I run the Marea 20V almost exclusively on Esso petrol. Occasionally I put a couple of quids worth of something else in, but very rarely. It probably works out to 45% esso standard unleaded and half esso super, with around 5% of other stuff usually BP. It always runs well, but revs slightly more freely on super, which seems to help with the little flat spot I have at about 3900rpm.....

I tried Optimax for a while when it first came out, and as many others found, it was great for the first few tanks, but then performance really started to drop off. In theory it should never get any worse than it was on standard unleaded, but it was running much worse than it had ever run before. All I could put it down to was Optimax. I went back to standard for a while and after 2 or three weeks, normal performance returned. I then tried Esso Super on Nige's reccomenation, back in the days I was a regular at the Bravo forum. Its been great ever since!

CP

Hi

BP have recently started advertising their BP Ultimate Unleaded fuel. Is this like Optimax, has anyone given it a go? Be interesting to know as I saw it at the pump the other day for 81.6 pence a litre.

Cheers.

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FIAT Stilo 1.6 Sport. Pretty Much Bog Standard Really.
Err, Sill Protectors, Aluminium Foot Pedals, Eibach 30mm Drop Springs, Ambipur Air Freshener.

i tried it and didn't notice a difference between that and optimax

So it's basically the same product then?

FIAT Stilo 1.6 Sport. Pretty Much Bog Standard Really.
Sill Protectors, Aluminium Foot Pedals, Eibach 30mm Drop Springs,
Starsky & Hutch Stripes, Ambipur Air Freshener.

or pretty close anyway, i don't notice any difference between any of the premium unleadeds

however if i put normal in i really feel it...

I notice a difference using it with my 1992 Carb'd Mini Cooper. But i doubt you'll notice much difference in a new car.

2003 3 Door Stilo 1.2 Active, Sassy Grey, plastic wheel trims - and 43mpg average so far. Love it, Oh yes!

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custard boy reads the Guardian [:0]:I

The Fiat Cinquecento
Fun While It Runs

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Seicento Sporting (2001)

I took my Dad's Mondeo too BP 2 fill her up 2day and it ran like a bag of s**t afterward. Like my Sei, it behaved the same and it is used 2 running on supermarket petrol.

I spoke 2 him about it and he said something about mailine fuel being a lot richer than Supermarket fuel (only just making the grade) and when ur car keeps running on the same quality of fuel, it can behave a little weird when u but a different quality in until the EMS adjusts after a couple of tank fulls.

Smurfhead

Seicento Sporting (2001)

Originally posted by JonnyBoy
My uncle buys Avgas for his plane, wonder if he'll let me scrounge a tankful...

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You can wave your catalyser goodbye if you put that stuff in:
even the "LL" stuff has something like 2 grams of lead per gallon[:0]
Way more than boring old leaded 4 star.

BP Ultimate has been voted best performance fuel in the latest car publications!

FIAT Stilo Sport. Pretty Much Bog Standard Really. Rear Roof Spoiler,
Sill Protectors, Aluminium Foot Pedals, Eibach 30mm Drop Springs.

I heard that too. I'm running my car down low today and i know tomorrow I will pass a BP garage early on on the way to Notts so i'm i'm going to whack a tankful in.

Smurfhead

Seicento Sporting (2001)