Tips on fuel consumption.
@CJ - The price of premium fuels maybe a con but not the fuel itself . With 35-yrs experience you should know that many performance (or older) engines need the higher level of hydrocarbons present in premium fuels to prevent knocking - and the arrival of E10 makes the case for using premium fuels for theses engines even greater.
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Modern performance engines will run perfectly well on E10. How many older cars do you see about that won’t run on E10?. Not many. Putting performance fuel in a modern XC40 is a total waste of money.Oldie wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:39 am @CJ - The price of premium fuels maybe a con but not the fuel itself . With 35-yrs experience you should know that many performance (or older) engines need the higher level of hydrocarbons present in premium fuels to prevent knocking - and the arrival of E10 makes the case for using premium fuels for theses engines even greater.
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You converted l/100km figures into US MPG. Posters on the forum are using UK MPG, so for us your overall consumption of 6.8l/100km is 41.54 mpgropetko wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 7:48 pm I drive XC40 R-Design D4 with AWD and 190hp and that's not the fuel-saving car. Still, for the last year my overall average mpg is 34.38 (6.8 l/100 km) and my highway cruising speed is usually 125 kmph or 80 mph (115 or 70mph up the steep hills, up to 140 or 90mph downhill).
@CJ - totally agree that to run an XC40 petrol on anything other than E10 is a waste of money, and why, because it is designed to do so . But maybe you know less than your 35-years in the industry should command, as many performance engines and some older engines would not run happy doing the same - a friend has a collection of cars to include a DB11, and Ferrari California and a 68 Stingray - which won't run well on anything less than 98 Octane .
Oh and the RAC suggests that as many as 600,000 cars on the road today won't run well on E10.
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Yeh maybe your right. I know nothing, you know everything (shame you don’t read replies and take note of what people are actually saying)Oldie wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 3:30 pm @CJ - totally agree that to run an XC40 petrol on anything other than E10 is a waste of money, and why, because it is designed to do so . But maybe you know less than your 35-years in the industry should command, as many performance engines and some older engines would not run happy doing the same - a friend has a collection of cars to include a DB11, and Ferrari California and a 68 Stingray - which won't run well on anything less than 98 Octane .
(That’s only 1.5% by the way so very few)
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Not at all CJ - just helping to correct, when you read, something that perhaps you feel maybe wrong or misleading - for example, stating that premium fuels are a con - now, someone reading that who may have been told their car needs premium fuels to run correctly may think - am I being conned - when in reality their vehicle like 600,000 others, as suggested by the RAC, can't run on anything less without running into problems - oh and its more like 3% of vehicles on the road - still not a high percentage, but double what has been suggested.
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You are very good at rubbing people up the wrong way. Read your replies (to other threads as well) but I doubt you’ll see how (telling me I might not know as much as I think for starters). I’ll leave it thereOldie wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 8:13 pm Not at all CJ - just helping to correct, when you read, something that perhaps you feel maybe wrong or misleading - for example, stating that premium fuels are a con - now, someone reading that who may have been told their car needs premium fuels to run correctly may think - am I being conned - when in reality their vehicle like 600,000 others, as suggested by the RAC, can't run on anything less without running into problems - oh and its more like 3% of vehicles on the road - still not a high percentage, but double what has been suggested.
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@blastpipe - thanks for the advice - CJ accuses me but does not see his own replies - some folk just cant take the medicine they dish out