Optimax shortage??

[2fardown]

The sticker under my bonnet of the R33 says that anything greater then 96 Ron is OK. If only BP or Shell would supply thier higher octane fuels to regional areas.

[Guest Boxhead]

or you could move from hicksville.

[2fardown]

Originally posted by Boxhead

or you could move from hicksville.

Yeah just so I can get higher octane fuel. I like your logic.

[MM2death]

Originally posted by Boxhead

or you could move from hicksville.

ROFL...

Oh yeah i ONLY use Ultimate too. Optimax is bad mkay

Scott.

[Guest Boxhead]

Originally posted by 2fardown

BLAH BLAH BLAH IM A COUNTRY HICK!

what did you say?

[pimpspec]

Originally posted by 2fardown

Its just premium fuel.  Optimax and ultimate are a higher octane rating.

what octane you need depends on your cars state of tune, iclduing mods. If you've changed your car in any way since that sticker was applied its no longer valid - so be careful.

[Chucky]

i thikn the shortage of optimax is due to the fact that shell are giving away double points on flybuys if you purchase optimax..

[Guest Boxhead]

i heard BP are trialing a shopadocket saving if you get groceries from certain places, just like woolys. but i hope they bring it up here..

[nismoman18]

man if they are giving double points on optimax purchases its a scam cos there is no optimax so no one will get double points neway

[Guest RedLineGTR]

the great debate

[dAVE]

Originally posted by GenesisR32

this is going to spark off a debate.  Frankly speaking, is there anyone out there who had tried BOTH fuel and give a better assessment?

GenesisR32

had a friend with a proton satria gti... he ONLY used caltex vortex.. from the station in his home town... after 15,000kms, his fuel filter needed replacing and needed an injector service as the shitty fuel clogged up his system... so if it aint good enough for a proton, then its not good enough for a skyline!

[locutus_of_bris]

Mobil don't see their 98RON fuel in QLD, only south of the border from what I have seen.

I also read a thread saying how the extra additives in the Optimax, when left unburnt (yeah, lines on boost don't burn half the fuel they use) the fuel causes stains on the paintwork on the rear, and needed buffing off. So yeah, I use ultimate. I guess they are much the same, but BP's seem to have more servos and I tend to need filling up a fair bit.

Thats my bit

[MotoX]

i used ultimate, because its mostly avaliable.

bp now converted all their LRP tanks to ultimate, so now you povo bp station have ultimate.

i use ultimate because when running it in my old bike (2stoke) it ran better then optimax.

i do not notice any diference in the skyline between bp and shell.

the only difference anyone would notice is its detnation properties.

trust me, unless u get really shit fuel, you will not notice the performance difference, unless its 2 stroke. only way you can tell if its better or not, is if it pings or not.

you might get better ecconomy out of a certain fuel. maybe try stick to that fuel and reset your ecu. then see what your cosumption is like.

[Genesis®]

have been using Optimax all along with my previous car, Honda Prelude and now with my r32. Think will give BP ultimate a try to see how it react on my car... have been getting alot of good reviews on it.

GenesisR32

[nismoman18]

the problem with BP is they practically control the market. There was a stage where a chain email was sent out urgign ppl to use non-BP stations so that they would put their prices down, however with the optimax shortage looks like BP is winning again, they make huge profits on fuel, could be a good investment hehe!

[craz0]

The only 98ron fuel I can get is optimax and there is currently a shortage, they pumped out what we had left and trucked it out some where else. Now we have no optimax:(

[warrior_350]

Well i have been comparing both in the last few weeks. With optimax, it feels like it pulls a bit harder when accelerating, but i only get around 300km's from a full tank of it. With ultimate i usually get around 400km's sometimes more per tank.

I really don't care what anyone says about "they heard certain servos just use premium fuel and put additives in it" because its most likely BS and all servos probably add stuff to their fuel anyway, which is not always a bad thing though.

[warrior_350]

hmm nearing the end of my tankful of optimax it seems to have a fair bit more power now, like it gave it a good clean out or something. Driving slowly in first, if i plant it, it bags it up quite easily, it was never like that running on Ultimate.

[jlnewton]

There is Optimax around Brisbane at the moment but it will run out again very shortly. Filled up at the Shell at Moggil Rd Taringa and the attendant was saying that they had a delivery on Friday of 22000L and were already down to 5000L and the truck driver that delivered on Friday said there wasn't going to be much around for a while yet. The attendant said he had been copping an ear full all week from annoyed optimax users. I wonder what the reason is for the shortage?

[fwddriftking]

i guess we could blame the police for the shortage. maybe its a conspiracy against car owners?