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| Old Betsy, premium/Reg Gas? | 20Relevance | 5 years ago | Wkitt84 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hey Scotty, love your videos! Recently got a new beater 98 Lincoln Town car, for $400 w 194,000. When I took it to get flushed, the mechanic said I was supposed to only use premium gas. Old betsy always had regular gas w previous 2 owners. What are your thoughts?? Thank you {black}:blushed: | |||||
| Answer to: 89 Premium gas or 87 regular gas? | 20Relevance | 3 years ago | MountainManJoe | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| if premium fuel is only "recommended" and not "required" in the manual, then yeah you should be fine. It won't be making peak power, but most people are ok with that. If the engine starts knocking/pinging, you'll have to switch back to higher octane though. | |||||
| Answer to: will ethonal free gas damage my engine? | 21Relevance | 7 days ago | Justin Shepherd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Your gas mileage will improve, but not worth the probably $1 per gallon cost increase. Your engine will also develop carbon deposits galore if you use that regularly. Ethanol-free gas is intended for small, carbureted engines and boats that can't handle E10 gas. I have a '79 Pontiac Catalina and I put regular E10 in it. It's been law since the mid-70s that automotive gasoline must have 10% ethanol in it, as it controls engine knock. The EPA phased out leaded gas in 1995, and the lead content had been what controlled engine knock. I have a gas-powered ZTR, gas weed eater and lawn mower. I don't use ethanol-free gas in any of them. I've never had any issues with any of my lawn equipment, either. Your car was designed with E10 in mind from the start, and the ethanol content in the gas helps to disperse carbon deposits. If you don't use E10, carbon will build up and you will eventually get engine knock. You can keep engine knock under control by using a fuel system clear that has PEA in it. It's not worth the increased cost. | |||||
| Answer to: Car Nearly Out of Gas | 21Relevance | 4 years ago | Justin Shepherd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Those range estimates are just that. Estimates. It's not 100% accurate. Drive conservatively, pray for all green lights and go straight to the gas station. Or, better yet, pay a friend to deliver $10 worth of gas in a jerry can to you. Unless you have a moonshine distillery in your yard and an E85 capable engine, you will destroy your fuel system putting alcohol in it. If you run out of gas before you get there, don't keep trying to start your car. You will destroy the electric fuel pump. Never run your car this low on gas again. I've run out of gas twice, once in my '99 Ranger and once in my '79 Catalina. The Ranger has an electric fuel pump, and the low gas light never came on. Now, I put gas in my truck every 270 miles. No exceptions. The Catalina is so old, it has no fuel light. I was tempting fate in the middle of the night and lost (girlfriend got very angry with me on this one). That car it doesn't really matter to run out of gas. It has a mechanical fuel pump on the engine block you can change in an hour or so. Not so for my truck or your Focus. Very expensive and time consuming job not worth a few dollars on gas. | |||||
| Shell Gas | 21Relevance | 4 years ago | Jonaeski | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Saw a video on Scotty talking about Shell gas. I happen to use Shell gas since there are 5 stations within a 2 mile radius in my county. My 2005 Toyota Sienna says in the owners manual that it can take regular but the other higher grades of gas are recommended for better performance. What is it meant by better performance? Will my car run faster? If so, can the higher speed/performance wear out my engine? They say gas is gas because the Federal Government mandates detergents but is Shell gas better because they add better additives and detergents? It is said that one should use the gas recommended for their vehicle...since mine is recommended at all types of gas, what would the super unleaded do besides more performance? Will it clean the engine better or will the gas burn longer like a sportscar? Would you be able to explain this complex matter to me? | |||||
| Answer to: Car runs out of gas with a half a tank left | 21Relevance | 4 years ago | jack62 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| How do you know it's running out of gas if the gauge reads otherwise? The reason I ask is because from what you say, you added around 10 gallons of gas to an 18.5 gallon tank to fill it when it was supposedly empty. That just doesn't make sense. It had to have around 8.5 gallons of gas in that "empty" tank for adding 10 gallons of gas to fill it. Maybe something else is happening here and it should be pretty easy to test the theory. What if the one-way vent valve in the gas cap is clogged? Its job is to let air into the gas tank as the fuel level decreases, but not allow fumes to escape from the tank. As the fuel level decreases in the gas tank air has to be allowed in or a vacuum begins to build inside the tank. At some point (maybe around 1/3 to 1/2 full from a filled tank) that "vacuum" will overpower the fuel pump which is trying to pump fuel out of the tank to the fuel rail. The theory can be tested and it won't cost a nickel by simply removing the gas cap during the next "out of gas" event which will allow the pressure inside the tank to equalize with the outside atmospheric pressure, and see if the Land Rover starts. | |||||
| Mistakenly put diesel exhaust fluid into gas tank | 20Relevance | 3 years ago | Chanchi | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I have a 2022 Toyota Highlander with 4k miles, accidentally put 13oz of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) into the gas tank. I tried to dilute the DEF by filling up with premium gas. About 60 miles of driving the check engine light came on and on the infotainment screen it shows “a malfunction in the electronic control of the engine, throttle, or automatic transmission has been detected. Contact your Toyota dealer to have your vehicle inspected.” Has the engine or the fuel system been damaged? Should I continue to drive it and fill it up with premium gas to burn an ... | |||||
| Answer to: Gas type | 20Relevance | 5 years ago | Matt.1 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| If you use regular on a car that requires premium then you might have Engine Knock. Use premium if your car Requires it. If it says premium recommended then you should be OK with regular. | |||||
| vacuum leak detection unit or gas cap | 19Relevance | 2 years ago | carcarcar | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Someone stole the gas from my 2005 dodge caravan. I got an engine light code for gas cap issue. The cap had been put on incorrectly. So, I fixed it and had the codes cleared. Two days later, the code came back and autozone said maybe vacuum leak detection unit. The printout also still said gas cap. The gas cap is still on correctly, and my full tank of gas is still mostly full. Is the gas cap code always the gas cap, or is that code for many things? Can the vacuum leak detection unit be damaged by someone stealing your gas? Where is the unit? | |||||
| Answer to: Top tier gas vs non top tier ethanol free gas | 19Relevance | 3 years ago | Dad2LM2 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| The "top tier" designation is not a general specification for "really good gas". It refers to gas that has a certified minimum of detergent additives. Yes, it generally is pretty good gas, although theoretically you could have bad "top tier" gas as well as great "not top tier" gas. Octane ratings and ethanol content are separate metrics. For those, as long as you follow your owners manual you'll be fine. PS: If your preferred gas station is not a "top tier" vendor, you can add your own detergent additives. Chevron "Techron" is a common example. | |||||
| Good method to siphoning gas. | 21Relevance | 5 years ago | Eddie007 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I am working on getting my 2005 Toyota Corolla XRS moving again after sitting for 1 year or so. I am able to crank it but not start it after just replacing the battery. My question is there is a better way to get the gas out of the gas tank without needing to remove the tank itself? One thing I need to do is to empty out the gas tank of the old fuel. I am stumped on how to effectively empty out the tank, as I have bought various tools to siphon the gas. I went to Autozone and bought a "Performance Tool Siphon Hose" and that only got out so much gas. Then I went back and bought the "Performance Tool Transfer Pump" and that was better, but eventually I couldn't get more gas out of my tank for whatever reason being that I pushed those clear PVC pipes into the gas tank as far as I could but still was only about to get about a gallon out when the car says it has 1/2 a tanks worth of gas. As I am working on getting this car up and running, I already started to check the fuel pump under the back seats and I know the fuel pump is good since when I removed the fuel line some gas leaked out, which is a good sign. But I need to wait to get the tool to remove the fuel pump before I can go further. I assume that would be another way to do it by just lifting the pump out and running the siphon tools through there. A local mechanic that my family knows mentioned that there is a drain plug somewhere under the car where the tank is, but I couldn't find one, nor have I found any info online saying that there is one. | |||||
| Answer to: Wrong gas used | 20Relevance | 2 years ago | Hixster | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Just use the 87 octane tank of gas just as you would any other tank of gas. Your gas mileage will decrease as will the engine's horsepower but that's about it. Cars which "recommend" 91 octane will run fine on 87 octane. (A friend has 220K miles of proof on his Lexus) I'll link a download for your owners manual, check out page 433 When the gas pump clicks you're done. Anything past that.. you're overfilling your gas tank. | |||||
| Answer to: Premium gas | 20Relevance | 2 years ago | MountainManJoe | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Of course you can, but it would be a complete waste of money. No it won't Cons: you spend more money Pros: Zippity. No benefit whatsoever. Your car is not equipped to take advantage of the higher octane rating. Incorrect. All fuel grades at the station have the same detergent package. All fuel grades, including regular, are regulated by law to have a certain amount of detergent which is necessary to keep the engine clean and running smoothly. | |||||
| Answer to: Regular vs premium fuel | 20Relevance | 4 years ago | Dad2LM2 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... interesting to me, because you would expect the turbo to need premium, but traditionally, naturally-aspirated motors were fine on lower-test stuff. However, modern cars are tuned much more for fuel economy than they used to be, and cylinder compressions are generally quite high. As a result, many naturally-aspirated engines are vulnerable to pre-ignition these days. So more and more cars require premium gas, turbo or not. So, yeah, if your owners manual specifies 91 octane, that's what you will need to go with. Even if the odds of a problem are low wit ... | |||||
| Answer to: Would I gain anything by using premium fuel on an FCA 5.7 Hemi? | 20Relevance | 5 years ago | Mod_Man | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Owners manual says mid grade at a minimum, premium recommended. Running a 5.7L Hemi on the cheap stuff WILL cause knock....zero question about it. You bought an SUV with a performance engine. More expensive fuel comes with the territory. This is one of the recurring topics I do not understand. Spending all that money on a new car and then instantly going cheap on the fuel for it. Why didn't you just buy the PentaStar V6 if you want to burn cheap gas and don't care about performance? premium fuel is not nitrous. You're not going to feel a difference of ... | |||||