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RTHRTY3

By RTHRTY3,
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As we all know petrol prices are phuckin ridiculous at the moment, especially if ur driving imports cars and the like. My question is which premium unleaded petrol is best to use here in PERTH, Caltex Vortex or Shell Premium Unleaded?

And don't say use BP Ultimate...! :D

ta :D

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if ur running the stock ecu shell premium will do u fine, its 96 RON. its even better if u shop at coles as u get 4c off per litre :D

caltex vortex is 95 RON and has an injector cleaner in it. it make my car ping with stock ecu stay away from it.

Gull's premium unleaded is suppose to be 98 RON, but i haven't used it yet.

that said if you have an afterward ecu or major mods i would only use bp ultimate 98.

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As you prolly know - BP Ultimate is only made in Kwinnana and distributed Australia wide (kinda sh1tza when it's cheaper in Sydney than Perth doesn't it). I suspect that it is also sold under another brand, but have never had this confirmed.

For this reason alone, it should be the freshest fuel providing you buy from a popular station.

Paul, that reminds me - make sure they drain my fuel and change the fuel filter before firing up the new donk- that crap's been sitting in my tank for 8 months now!

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caltex vortex is 95 RON and has an injector cleaner in it. it make my car ping with stock ecu stay away from it.

Gull's premium unleaded is suppose to be 98 RON, but i haven't used it yet.

Gull gets the dregs of the other fuel companies, kind of the crud that's left over from all of the crude oils

Caltex Vortex is 97RON though, but yeah has cleaner in it

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thanx for the replies guys, apparently and sadly my line is a *cough* n/a *cough* :Oops: but yea never use normal unleaded but, always use premiums at least, ok just checked their websites and shell is 96RON and vortex is 95. But the thing is i think i always gets more kms from using vortex, no noticable difference in terms of performance though. and yea i kinda mix the 2 together sometimes, i hope thats ok?

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Hi Guys. There is another thread going in the General Automotive about different fuels at the moment. I just left a message on that to direct people to the thread below from back in May. There is a fair amount of discussion in it, but some quite informed views. The main thing to note for us in Perth is that every last drop of fuel that you buy in Perth originates in BP Kwinana. Shell, Caltex and everyone else buy the raw 95 ron Premium off BP and add their own soup to it to make it theirs. Shell claim their standard premium is 96 ron, but they are starting from a 95 ron basic fuel, bought from BP. So anything else that they gain in octane rating is achieved through additives.

BP Ultimate is the only thing to use!

Here's that thread:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=38750

Cheers.

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