 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Car Forum / BMW Cars / October 2005Suitable fuel
Hello all, What do you consider to be the suitable petrol type for a 318 (2.0 lt and 143 bhp)? I have used simple 95-Octane so far. Do 98-Octane make any difference? Or should i also consider some 100-Octane special petrol types? TIA > Hello all, > What do you consider to be the suitable petrol type for a 318 (2.0 lt [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > TIA Just use what the manual says. Jim The model is just a regular car. Use the standard 95 octane from a big company to ensure best formula. Anything else is a complete waste of money. Why on earth would one want to use 100 octane, and from were would you get it? Never seen it at a petrol station in UK, Germany, France, NL.... The vast majority of cars run optimally on 95 octane. DAS For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- >> Hello all, >> What do you consider to be the suitable petrol type for a 318 (2.0 lt >> and [...] > Just use what the manual says. > Jim [...] > Why on earth would one want to use 100 octane, and from were would > you get it? > > Never seen it at a petrol station in UK, Germany, France, NL.... Shell V-power as sold in .de (and .nl?) is 100 octane and my (98 RON minimum) ALPINA B10 V8 loves it. Not sure that it makes as much difference vs. 98 Super as 98 makes vs. 97 but since the price was the same I bought it preferentially. A Your car is one of the few exceptions that can benefit from (or must use) more than 95 octane. My point still stands and Stathis Gotsis's 318 is among them ("the vast majority"). DAS  SignatureFor direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- > [...] > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > A > Your car is one of the few exceptions that can benefit from (or must > use) more than 95 octane. Yup, it works noticeably better on 98RON Optimax than 97RON Super. Tesco is trialling 100 octane but not near me. I'd certainly give it a go as it ran very well on V-power, though it might have been down to being able to breath freely on the A-bahn... > My point still stands and Stathis Gotsis's 318 is among them ("the > vast majority"). Yup, no argument with that. A |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.