Thread: New Petrol Quality Question.

My personal experience in my previous car a Pajero was that you get what you pay for. Three, three month trials showed me that E10 had worse mileage and less performance, regular unleaded had better performance and better mileage and vortex or whatever 98 had the best performance and mileage and in the end cost less to run despite the extra cost at the bowser. My mechanic at the time told me he had seen a lot of petrol tanks with rust caused by the water in Ethanol based fuels in the cars he serviced. I would never go back to ethanol if I ever bought another petrol powered car. Ethanol was introduced by politicians to help their mates not because it's good for cars.

Martin

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Our petrol can contain up to 150ppm of sulphur, which causes acidic emissions.
The developed world has already moved to the international standard of 10 ppm for petrol. Our diesel is already at 10 ppm sulphur.
The car companies asked the federal government to move to 10ppm sulphur in petrol because our dirty fuel harms their engines, which are manufactured to run on 10 ppm sulphur, and have to be detuned before they can come here.
Vehicle emissions also contribute to about 1700 deaths from respiratory diseases a year, which is higher than the road toll from crashes.
The fuel refiners lobbied our federal government which delayed the move to 10ppm of sulphur in petrol until July 1, 2027, to save money for the refiners.

Some time ago, back in the 70's from memory. WA had high sulphur diesel made there from Indonesian crude. This caused acid corrosion of the top piston ring and a number of engine manufacturers refused warranty claims for ring and piston failures caused by this fuel. Detroit Diesel (the two stroke) and White Farm Equipment (the 150 HP inline 6) were two makers who refused warranty claims as the operators had been using a grade of fuel that was expressly forbidden in the Owners and Operators Handbooks.