Re: Gasoline-pinging

From: Sandman (sandman@swconnect.net)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 17:12:03 EDT


Oops, that was supposed to be 87 Octane, not 97.

Doug Fedeli wrote:

> What grade of gas is everyone running? I've run 89 in my truck and the
> company car I have. I'll give the truck an occasional shot of 92 for
> the injector cleaners in it. I tried running 87 in it a couple of times
> and it pings like crazy on level roads and light acceleration. The other
> thing is what kind of gas do you use? I've stuck pretty much to Mobil.
> I'll use others when I have to but I will never use Hess in any vehicle
> I drive. I have used the 89 octane for 1 tank in every vehicle I've
> owned and they have pinged until I put at least a half tank of the same
> grade of another gas in it. I realize different parts of the country
> have different formulas of gas for different seasons so it will be hard
> to do any comparisons. Just color me curious.
>
> Doug Fedeli
>
> 92 V6 5 speed CC in upstate NY



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