ScottyPPP

The wife came home from work last night and informed me that "They didn't have any posh fuel so I put normal in".

It had a 1/4 tank of V power in it and she's put £20 worth of 95 in on top. Will it be ok, or shall I go and get an Octane booster to stick in it and top up with V Power?

Its an '03 WRX PPP.

Cheers,

Scott

scoobybry!

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just drive off boost till its gone a cap of octane booster wont hurt either

romford-boy

It'll be fine, don't worry about it.

JDM_Stig

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the ecu will cover your ***, it will be fine.

urban

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I have to laugh the amount of times I hear this.
Blind panic sets in, its if if they're putting vomit into the tank

scc28

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it will be fine as others have said the ecu does a pretty good job of sorting things out!

K3ogh_sti

It clearly states in the manual 95 can be used where high octane isnt available petrol is petrol after all

ScottyPPP

OK thanks guys, I might just chuck a cap of Octane booster in it to be safe .

Cakeslice1988

I only ever use 95, have no choice!

type-rob

Tanking it with V-Power will help dilute your worries.

blackvenom

Like the horse meat, do you actually know if the fuel is 99 or 95 put In the wrong tank under the garage

ditchmyster

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Funny you should say that, one of the petrol stations out here in Croatia is known for putting 95 in the 98 pump and making a profit out of some poor unsuspecting tourists in the summer, and even when it does get 98 no one uses it so probably degrades to god knows what till it gets topped up again for the summer.

I'm sure a few independent garages in the UK are not adverse to this practice, I mean mistake.

Donnie Brasco 46

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Pro drive certificate clearly says that you can use 95ron petrol without any problems - but 97+Ron is better to make "full use" of the upgrades

CREWJ

Depends if it has been specifically mapped to 99.

EOEUMC

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I could understand if you said the Mr's came home and said they didn't have posh fuel, so she stuck £20's worth of diesel in!

tubbytommy

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only run it on fairy tears anything else and the bottom end will explode..........

ScottyPPP

Where am I going to find these mystical fairy tears???

Tony Harrington

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Well at least she didn't put diesel in!

romford-boy

Tbh I would rather run it on 95 ron than octane booster.

I've read far more spurious arguments, discussion and hearsay over octane booster than I ever have about 95 ron in an Impreza.

romford-boy

Yep, mate's wife did that with their Discovery. Doh.

Markyscoob

95 is fine, in fact, old 91RON 2 Star fuel would have worked fine too. All you have to do is just not put any boost through it and drive gently and the ECU will not make any changes. It needs to detect knock before it does and driving off boost will not cause knock.

Thus, drive gently and let it run down to the light +20 miles or so then a full tank of V power and you'll be fine. As long as you put in over 50 litres you should be fine, but to be safe just drive sensibly until your next full fill up of over 50 litres and you can then give it some.

dunx

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Mine is mapped for 99 and it loves an added splash of OB.

dunx

JamesDundee

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People are saying its fine as long as you run off boost... It's not fine then is it?...

jayallen

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..........because those people don't really know what they are talking about. If the car had been mapped on Vpower/Tesco 99 then that's a different story.

sprigeteer

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Brings back a memory. I remember when te wife borrowed my car to drive up to Leicester to see relatives. On the way back she went to fill up with her sister. She rang me from the garage to say that my fuel filler cap was broken as it wasn't allowing the Vpower nozzle in. I told her that's impossible - a fixed diameter metal hole cannot be faulty. But not to fear she said, her sister held the internal flap inside the filler neck open with a pen and she had squeezed in a good £40 of Vpower in despite the 'malfunction'. I rang my brother in law up straight away and diagnosed the fact that she's filled my car withe Vpower diesel and he sorted her out. AA van came before any damage was done. I was remarkably calm.

Broomer

And you're most likely to get knocking/pinking when you're in a high gear using low revs and you're trying to accelerate or go uphill...

Hawkeye D

I will admit, when I first got my Spec D, I did pick up the Vpower diesel nozzle, but luckily realised and the nozzle only got half way between the pump and the filler. Close one that.

Ha ha does the D in Spec D stand for diesel??!!!

Carlh

That happens to me, but usually when I eat salad, my bottom end explodes too