Thread: E 10 Confusion?

Crikey, this Thread has been dug up from the depths, I forgot all about it!!!
Still don't use E10 in my car though!!! I have run it on 91 and 95 and as been previously mentioned by Schmierer From Singleton, there appears to be no difference in fuel consumption. I am now trying 98, to see how it goes.

e10 is like Rivers....they might have a lot, they might have none....it can be added without notification , so if you have run your vehicle on 91 /95 then chances are very high that youve used it...unknowingly

Maybe it may be an issue in older engines, but I'm not sure why everyone gets on their high horse about this stuff. My Mum's old Subaru has 368KKM on it, and has done a lot of those km on E10. Her 5 year old Nissan Maxima now has 126KKM on it and this has been entirely on E10.

My Inlaws used the stuff in the Rangie for the last few years before I got it off them and all without issue.

What is the drama with the stuff anyway? It's been used for years OS. I think all the scare mongering was done early on by the oil companies themselves, as they thought they may loose a few bucks. Now they control the stuff, they seem to be happy enough with it...

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers - Gav

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ethanol can/is made from molasses and if molasses is good at cleaning parts as has been shown by 123rover50, so therefor e10 fuel will to be corrosive or very good at cleaning but with using molasses to clean parts if you leave it in too long it does more then just clean
so a long story short women are fro venus and men are from mars

Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

ethanol can/is made from molasses and if molasses is good at cleaning parts as has been shown by 123rover50, so therefor e10 fuel will to be corrosive or very good at cleaning but with using molasses to clean parts if you leave it in too long it does more then just clean
so a long story short women are fro venus and men are from mars

Ethanol is not corrosive to anything except some rubbers. That it can be made from molasses is irrelevant. But unlike hydrocarbons, ethanol does like to absorb water, which is corrosive.

John

Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

ethanol can/is made from molasses and if molasses is good at cleaning parts as has been shown by 123rover50, so therefor e10 fuel will to be corrosive or very good at cleaning but with using molasses to clean parts if you leave it in too long it does more then just clean
so a long story short women are fro venus and men are from mars

The fact that ethanol can be made from molasses is no more of a worry than the fact that the most common firefighting substance, water, is made from hydrogen, which is highly inflammable, and oxygen which is need to support burning.