Buying A New Car? Read This First. (warranty)

[luke gtr]

Interesting. Does the Micra's manual mention anything about e10? I wonder if Nissan are meeting their legal responsibilities. Remember they will often turn down warrantee requests that they are legally obligated to provide, hoping you are ignorant of the law and accept their decision. You could even make that case that if during the purchase process you were not specifically informed that the car cannot run on e10 then you were sold the vehicle under false pretences, as it would be a perfectly reasonable expectation that the car can run on e10. The consumer law is strong, so its worth investigating.

I've been mostly using the United 95 octane e10 in the Stagea for about 20,000kms....

sales people also don't tell you a micra won't run on diesel.

Its up the the purchaser to read the owners manual (which very rarely happens) and understand what should and shouldn't be used.

[Calsonic14U]

Well well well. It states here in the manual under fuel recomendation Regular 91 octane should be used.

But if your in Thailand it says you can use fuel with a mix of ethanol up to 20%. so E20.

If your not in those countries you can use normal Unleaded. 91 to 93.

For Europe it says use at least 95.

China use at least 93.

use of other fuels will reduce performance of the vehicles emission control system and cause a (MIL) light indicator.

So there you have it. But we are in Australia so WTF do we use? How can it use E10-E20 in one country yet needs premium in another.

the plot thickens

[niZmO_Man]

Not in Thailand, use regular unleaded. Pretty clear to me.

[Scott Black]

different parts are used in cars for different markets, also the lsu 4.2 sensor doesnt like ethanol yet the 4.7 loves it.

anyways e10 is shit, dont use it.

[oweban]

also would have been a lot easier if there wasn't a big mates pact to make ethanol the standard and line pockets

just sayin

we'd still have 91 everywhere and not e10