Optimax shortage??

[666DAN]

Yeah I noticed that Optimax did a vanishing act for a bit....Jimboomba was without it for over a week

[nismoman18]

maybe shell had a contaminated batch and had to stop distribution till they cleaned it up

[unwritten law]

I have heard that opti has a 'shelf life' of about 4 days or so.

I like to use ultimate, becuase i havent heard anything bad about it and it seems to be very clean. on performanceforums.com there seems to be a bit of debate about it, with some very useful info there, just do a search.

also would it be good to fill up just after the tanker has filled the silos, so u arent getting the dregs from the bottom when its near empty???

[Guest terrance]

^ nice screen name.

[chook]

if you like the sweet sound of pinging then optimax is the go, otherwise stick to Ultimate

[ph1]

i've had countless sets of fouled plugs while using optimax, unfortunately it was the only fuel available (within 60klms) of where i used to live...

ultimate is a much cleaner fuel, i havent had any fouling problems since moving back to qld and using ultimate 100% of the time.

[Genesis®]

i just switched over to ultimate after using optimax for a year... just resetted my ECU as well... should i change the fuel filter too?

GenesisR32

[nismoman18]

how many k's u done ? u can if u want, should do if its the original one!

[Genesis®]

got the car at 115,000k ..... drove about 10,000k on optimax and now switching to ultimate for a trial.... recently major serviced and its an original filter (about 3 months old)

GenesisR32

[chook]

changing fules doesnt warrant a change of filter, should be fine if it was changes 10k ago

[nismoman18]

yeah the filter should be fine! the ultimate will clean it out pretty much

[4 Doorz]

lol....

-^- ulimate cleans the filter while the filter cleans optimax-^-

[Genesis®]

ok.. thks chook!!

GenesisR32

[warrior_350]

how can ultimate clean the fuel filter? the only place the dirt and stuff can go is through the engine?

[Zoix]

it breaks it up into tiny particles taht go through with the fuel.

where as optimax seems to cogged the filter after long periods of time.