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Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 12:35 am
by ramsen25
i personally think sunoco is just becuz they have the 94 octane..wuts urs

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 12:38 am
by projectzemx3
sunoco

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 12:56 am
by Nd4SpdSe
Sonoco; both the Mx-3 and the Xterra gets 94

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:08 am
by Evo_Spec
don't have sonoco here, shell for me

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:21 am
by fowljesse
They ALL put Ethanol in around here! It sucks.

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:25 am
by Nd4SpdSe
Sonoco I believe uses upto 10% ethanol in their fuels. Also, I'm pretty sure Ethanol raises the octane level as well.

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:28 am
by fowljesse
All I know is that it lowers HP, and mileage.

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:41 am
by Thassodar
Umm none of those because I'm American. Only 1 of them sounds remotely familiar, and that's Sonoco.

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:51 am
by Nd4SpdSe
Sonoco exists in the US, I know, I've gas up in and on my way to Virginia.

Esso is known as Exxon in the US

There's Shell, which I believe is in the US too.; I hate shell. But you're right, that list is Canadian biased and you don't have those like BP and Texaco

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:53 am
by Mooneggs
We only have 76, Shell, and Texaco, and grocery store gas stations around here... and everything is 92 + 10% ethanol...

When I lived in Memphis the only place I filled up was BP and they had 93... If they had a sunoco here that had 94 I would use that for sure! Haven't seen one of those stations since I lived in Ohio...

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:54 am
by Whisper
Don't have any of them around here. I use Shell gasoline.

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:57 am
by Whisper
What's the appeal of higher octane (other than to deal with detonation)? I use 92 and I think that's plenty. Might even downgrade at some point. There are cars with our level of compression that run fine on regular.

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 9:07 am
by Mad Cow
Sunoco all the way, I fill up there whenever I have the chance. I hate Petro Canada, the people working there are idiots.

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 10:46 am
by 96mx-3
shell... no ethenol in the supreme or w.e its called.. every where else uses it to get a higher octane

Re: Whats your Favourite Gas Station ?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 11:07 pm
by fowljesse
Whisper wrote:What's the appeal of higher octane (other than to deal with detonation)? I use 92 and I think that's plenty. Might even downgrade at some point. There are cars with our level of compression that run fine on regular.
The only thing that could make a difference in our cars... the ones with stock timing... is in warmer weather, in higher rpm, is that the car won't knock, causing the ECU to retard the timing, causing loss of power.