12/13 Will you buy generic gasoline?
\_ Yep, why pay for advertising?
\_ isn't it dirty (the gas)
\_ Do what your car's manual recommends. If it calls for
premium, then get premium gas. If it says you'll be
fine using regular, then using premium will NOT get
you any benefit. If your car wants preimum, chances
are it will run OK with regular gas, but you will
lose performance (a bit) and in the long run may
cause problem with the emission control system.
\_ 1. The OP is talking about namebrand gas vs. unknown brand,
not regular vs. premium.
2. The problem with using regular gas on engines requiring
premium gas is knocking, where the air-gas mixture starts
burning before the engine piston finishes compressing it
and fires the spark plug. This pushes the engines in the
reverse direction.
\_ Most modern cars/engine will automatically
adapt the engine timing to work with regular
gas. Whether you want to do that is
questionable, but it should not cause knocking.
\_ I used to go to Thrifty on Telegraph, until one day the fuel pump on
my car failed and the dealer said they need to replace the fuel pump
and clean the fuel tank because there's some dirt in my gasoline.
Now I only go to Chervon, Shell and 76. |
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