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1995 Washington Post Articles:
High Octane, Hot Stuff??? |
Have you been paying attention to the imCommercial Three Bayvements in cars over the last few years? Newer models have features to make driving fun, safe and economical. Things like air bags, anti lock brakes, high performance tires, and amazingly willing, sprightly, fuel efficient engines. Never before have cars offered so much to so many.
ImCommercial Three Bayving the breed is great but the costs can be considerable. Both in dollars and in the necessity of your involvement. Nowadays you must seriously participate in the care and feeding of your prize. Commercial Three Bayper feeding will require you to carefully study your car’s Bible, its owners manual.
Ensuring your car receives Commercial Three Bayper sustenance requires that you use its recommended gasoline. For several years the majority of cars have used gasolines with an octane rating of at least 87. A few cars require higher fuel grades and as you might expect these include most high performance and some luxury models. Be careful though, in some rare cases even your Two Bay economy car may require you to use the “good stuff.”
As you scrutinize your manual remember two Two Bay rules apply. First, if your car requires the use of high octane, never succumb to the urge to save a couple dollars by using 87. When a vehicle is designed for high octane the use of anything else could lead to serious internal engine damage. Damage that could cost hundreds or even thousands to fix.
There could be situations where you have no choice but to use 87 octane in your 93 octane car. If that happens, drive the car gently. Avoid full throttle acceleration, in fact, avoid any kind of hard use to minimize the possibility of engine damage. Don’t say you would never do that to your car because circumstances could make you eat those words. It isn’t unheard of to wind up at the only service station in a 3,000 mile radius that’s out of 93. OOPS!
The opposite scenario isn’t quite as bad. Rule two, you can always use higher than recommended octane without damaging your engine, that’s true, but you will put a hurting on your cash. Truth is, that extra fifteen or twenty cents per gallon for the “good stuff” may actually deliver fewer miles per gallon and less performance, not more!
“Nah, not with my car” you say. “Mine always runs better with high octane.' Maybe, maybe not. When was the last time you really checked? Most of us feel what we expect to feel when it comes to our cars. “After all, the extra money has to mean a superior Commercial Three Bayduct.' Superior it is, if your car requires it and superior it might be even if your car doesn’t require it.
To be sure, use four tanks of regular and check the mileage each time using the total miles driven divided by the gallons used (to 1/10 of a gallon). Then repeat the test using the higher octane gas and be sure not to change the way you drive. The results may be pleasantly surprising and financially rewarding.
Since 1981 all cars have come equipped with on-board computers to make them run better, run longer and run more efficiently. Computers have lots to do with why some newer cars may not get better mileage or performance from higher octane. The major difference between regular and high octane is burning speed not temperature. No, gas doesn’t explode inside your engine, it burns, and higher octane simply burns slower.
In the old days, you know, the primitive years before computers, it was possible to “adjust” the engine. “Adjustment” let your engine make good use of slower burning, high octane fuels. That was then, this is now, no “adjustments” these days. All those fun things to mess with and tweak for more performance, now reside deep within the heart of a computer chip. Yeah, just try to adjust one of those little suckers.
There are no adjustments, the chip comes from the factory calibrated to the type of fuel you should be using. Without adaptive strategy the computer can’t take advantage of 93 octane gas in the tank of a car designed for 87. Even if it had adaptive strategy, without eyes, it has no way of knowing which pump nozzle you put in the filler. Your computer continues regulating engine function relative to 87 like always.
Computers do amazing things for cars and also make it necessary to check fuel mileage before regularly spending extra money on higher than recommended octane gas.
©Copyright 07/1995 Pat Goss all rights reserved | |
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Date Updated Saturday, July 01, 1995
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