Suuba

Filling the motor up tonight and seen another scoob owner (bit chavy looking driver btw) pull up in the pump behind me....


As you do had a wee stare at what looked like a turbo 2000. Then as he goes to pull the pump nosel out the pump unit I realise he aint filling up with V-power but normal unleaded!!!!


I was going to comment to guy but "For F*ck sake its a performance car!"

Anyone else seen this thing happen in the pump next to you and feel like commenting

Steve Fort

Could've been worse. I see a Golf R32 being filled up at the LPG pump the other day!

weslad

doesn,t matter if it a uk car does it ? ........or am i mistaken .........

davyboy

Are they not designed to run on 95 ron fuel?

Alan MaC

The best one was I saw a Porsche fill up with ordinary unleaded.

Got all the Kraut posters on here, saying why the German machine could do high performance on normal unleaded, AAAND how our poor Jap Mobiles needed Super to try to keep up with them.

(check my previous post " Porsche couldn't beleive it")

Alan MaC

miff13

My uk turbos got a subaru sticker on the filler flap saying "use super unleaded only". I use Tesco 99, wouldn't dream of putting 95 ron in, better safe then sorry!

Terminator X

iTrader: (7)

Buy a performance car then scrimp on the fuel probably doesn't service it every 6 months either ...

TX.

weslad

its prob suprising how many people dont know what fuel you should put in there scoob !

Steve Fort

Its also suprising how many scoob drivers don't let their cars warm up before nailing them, or cool down before turning them off.

Just shows that its always best to buy from a genuine enthusiast.

stiscooby

On a UK car I wouldn't have thought it would make any difference. If it was a 2000 model then V-Power, or even possibly Optimax, might not have even been around when the car was made? So I guess it probably wasn't even mapped to run on better fuel?

If it was a JDM car then it might be a slightly different story.

Barmyclown

How many of the 2ltr renault clio guys use super, because in my wifes clio book it says the 2ltr requires 98ron fuel.

Jase

nik52wrx

A guy near me fills his MY05 STI PPP with 97ron at our local Tesco.
Shell garage is only 3 miles away
Nik.

2pac

my uk impreza also says on the inside of the petrol flap to only use super unleaded fuel and not the cheap nasty stuff, i did use the cheap stuff by accident before and could tell it wasnt my usual stuff.

vindaloo

"Normal" UK Impreza's should run on Normal Unleaded (NUL). That's not to say you should run them on NUL, just that they will do it.

ISTR any WR or PPP tuning options would probably require the use of SUL though...

J.

911

At great risk:

My 911 runs great on unleaded, or v max or leaded as long as it is petrol, and its done that for 18 years in my ownership.
My 400 bhp Sti must have Vmax + full NF boost dose to stay alive when ragged hard, and its done that for 5 years in my ownership.

Both are specifically tuned to do this.

Graham

Graham

Abdabz

Where's PSL when I need him?

Seriously, I had no idea there was such a thing as "Petrol Snobs"

Sometimes I put 95ron Asda petrol in my car, sometimes I put Tesco 99ron in it and yesterday I put Vpower in it... Couldnt give a sheeite what goes in and neither does my car. Incidentally, it's serviced every ~10000 miles as per the service book?
Had subarus for 4 years now, never ever had a problem with this?

If someone looked at me funny for putting 95ron in my baby, I would look back and do a mahoosive belch

jaytc2003

iTrader: (1)

no probs in using 95 ron supermarket fuel in mine either. If you are just doing every day driving without ragging it then its fine. Sure the handbook for the uk subarus says they can be run on 95ron but for optimol performance use super

fabiavrs

To be fair it's his car and his choice. I run my fabia on shell diesel as I've found it run better and cleaner on it where as other owners just fill up with cheap diesel.

If his car pops it's his loss really.

impreza_terzo3_no257

Jase,

Its french mate it will run on anything, as far as i know with my know how of the renault F7 and sport engines they will will just as fine on 95, i think what renault are saying is they have found the clio 172/182/197 will produce that sort of horsepower with super, but with normal unleaded it wont give the sort of power super does.

Might be worth ringing renault UK up and double checking, because when i had my r19 16v the figures stated 137bhp stock so i had on the rollers running on 95, and guess what 120bhp, put super in and it was spot on 137bhp but then PUFFF white smoke head gasket went, typical french car falls apart even with all the love and care
Jay

fivetide

iTrader: (1)

Its a couple of quid. For an engine with potential det issues it just isn't worth the money to fill on 95

5t.

Barmyclown

It Doesn`t bother me what petrol she puts in it, hers is only a 1.2 anyway, so it runs on anything. the scary thing is it does more miles to a 40 ltr tank than mine does on a 60 litre. Even blasting down the motorway.

Crosstalk

I've run my 05 WRX on Optimax, V-Power and ordinary unleaded and cannot honestly tell any difference. So I use ordinary unleaded and my car hasn't blown up yet.

Bat-Fink

Why didn't you go and tell him?

'Sorry mate,dunno if you knew you should use this fuel on these cars.'

Then smiled and said nice car or summant.

PaulC72

MY06 runs mainly on V-power but it has it's fair share of normal UL, the only fuel it seems not to like is BP Ultimate not sure why, it likes the normal UL.

I sometimes mix using half UL from on station and then V-power to top it off it all depends on where I am and when I need it.

scooby_me

iTrader: (1)

I have rossi_classicwrx`s old scooby and the car was mapped to use vmax so thats what i use, i never noticed bofore how many shell garages there are about.

at the end of the day its not that much more than normal unleaded so i realy dont see the problem.

oh and i am STILL smileing everytime i drive the car :-)

Daz

tony95

uk2000 will run fine on 95ron.(if unmodified)