Gas Guage Problems Linked to Gasoline

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Jeff Strickland - 28 May 2004 21:01 GMT

I just read this article posted on Yahoo News. It says that there has been a
problem recently with the gas that is being sold in the Southeastern Region
of the USA. With the discussions going on on this board recently, I wonder
it there is a link ...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040528/ap_on_re_us/sulfur_in_g
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Raybender - 29 May 2004 22:56 GMT

> I just read this article posted on Yahoo News. It says that there has been a
> problem recently with the gas that is being sold in the Southeastern Region
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> http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040528/ap_on_re_us/sulfur_in_g
> as

Yep, I even heard it on the national news on the radio - ABC, I think.

Pretty sure that the sulfur combined with MTBE is what did in the two sets of
sender units for my BMW. That stuff is quite corrosive. The MTBE ruined $600
(parts+labor) of rubber hoses on my truck that was made before the manufacturers
anticipated such a high concentration of the stuff in the gasoline, and added
the proper compounds into the hoses.

Frank

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