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Griffman65 03 January 2006 12:04 AM

Misfire problem
 
Since buying my RB5, it has always felt like it has had a misfire @ about 3k revs. More so when warming up in the morning / evening.
Various garages have looked into it and tested "things" and replaced plugs and the MAF, but no matter what people say & do it has always misfired.

I then discovered tesco's 99 ron, and suddenly the misfire was cured.

What's causing this to happen if it's running on optimax etc & has it / will it damaged the engine by running it on anything else than Tesco's 99 ron.
is this a common problem, that can be tuned out of the car?:confused:

jockc79 03 January 2006 01:01 AM

your getting misfire cause of the fuel is ur car an import

Griffman65 03 January 2006 07:45 AM

Thanks for the reply Jockc, but i did say RB5 in the initial messsage.

jockc79 04 January 2006 01:54 AM

optimax is only 98 maybe u need higher octane try octane boost see if that helps

jaytc2003 04 January 2006 08:10 AM


Originally Posted by Griffman65
I then discovered tesco's 99 ron, and suddenly the misfire was cured.

What's causing this to happen if it's running on optimax etc & has it / will it damaged the engine by running it on anything else than Tesco's 99 ron.
is this a common problem, that can be tuned out of the car?:confused:

It could be tuned out by means of a remap//aftermarket ecu. It can be mapped for a lower grade of fuel say normal unleaded//super unleaded 97 ron so then you can fill it with whatever you want. The upside of this is more performance as well :lol:


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