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Car Forum / Saab Cars / February 2007

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SAAB and gas quality

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Richard Sauer - 25 Feb 2007 06:59 GMT
Assuming you are using the recommended octane rating, has anyone noticed if
their SAAB is particularly sensitive to certain brands of gasoline? I have a
9-5 v6, and I think it runs better on Shell....but this might be pure
fantasy on my part.

Rich
Paul Halliday - 25 Feb 2007 10:46 GMT
> Assuming you are using the recommended octane rating, has anyone noticed if
> their SAAB is particularly sensitive to certain brands of gasoline? I have a
> 9-5 v6, and I think it runs better on Shell....but this might be pure
> fantasy on my part.

Taking a completely unscientific approach, I can say that my car prefers our
local supermarket super unleaded. Based on doing similar journeys, driving
conditions and similar styles over successive weeks on different fuels, I
find I can achieve higher and more prolonged boost and Sainsbury's super
unleaded. MPG is better, too.

A close second is Esso Supreme (again, a 97 UK RON fuel), then Total
Excellium (I think this might be a 98 UK RON fuel), Texaco SUL and lastly
Shell V-Power, with which my car misfires, gets little over base boost and
fuel mileage down to around 20 MPG. Our FIAT, on the other hand loves
V-Power :)

Paul

1989 900 Turbo S
http://saab.go.dyndns.org/
- Bob - - 25 Feb 2007 20:10 GMT
>Taking a completely unscientific approach, I can say that my car prefers our
>local supermarket super unleaded. Based on doing similar journeys, driving
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>fuel mileage down to around 20 MPG. Our FIAT, on the other hand loves
>V-Power :)

Well, I can't speak for the UK or other areas of the world, but in the
all gasoline is of undefinable origins. That is, the oil companies
pump gas into a shared storage pool and draw from it in equal
proportions to what they put in. The only difference in gas at the
pump is the additive package they add and how often and how
effectively they keep the water out of their tanks at the station.

Still, people here claim religiously that their cars run better on
certain brands of gas. I have my doubts since the only real difference
is the octane rating and the detergents they use. As long as the
octane rating is honest, that's out of the picture too. So, we're down
to a difference in detergents - and if your injectors are clean, that
likely does not matter either.

So, I've got my doubts :-)
 
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