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Any one been caught with the dodgy fuel?
Mudlark:
It's not really bad fuel just bad electronics that the car manufacturers won't admit to.
Just think if they wont run on this so-called bad fuel how are these vehicles going to manage in third world countries?
karlo:
Tainted petrol probe under way
The hunt is on for the source of contaminated fuel after thousands of cars began grinding to a halt.
Tesco and Morrisons denied that their supplies have been affected after an investigation was launched by Trading Standards officers.
Motorists who filled up with the tainted fuel said their vehicles had been juddering, misfiring and suffering a loss of power.
The UK Petroleum Industry Association, the trade association representing the nine main oil refining companies operating in the UK, stressed it was not a country-wide issue.
In a statement, it said it was aware of reports about "exhaust sensor failure" among cars in a geographic area covering London, and parts of east and south east England.
But it continued: "The problem is not thought to be widespread and we have no reports of quality issues with petrol supplied from UK refineries.
"Reports received from motoring organisations and other sources indicates that the source may be a batch of fuel supplied to some large independent retail sites."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6405051.stm
Eeyore:
Still no sing of the actual problem yet then?
Last night there was utterings that is was donw to ethanol contamination. Which wouldn't be nice.
1) It rots anything not made of stainless (tanks, lines, sensors)
2) The e-flux (exhaust gas) is very corrosive and would erode sensers in the exhaust system very quickly.
However, no confirmation of the actual cause yet, but some dodgy fuel is more dodgy than others. :wink:
Cheers
8)
Eeyore
Rich_P:
Guess where my father fills up his Merc? :shock: :lol: So it's wrecking Lambda sensors is it?
Eeyore:
Would be nice to know what the problem is (and a few simple chemistry tests should establish that in a matter of minutes :? )
The reports only suspected ethanol, so I wouldn't put too much faith in the rumour.
......so far.
There's a lot of other chemicals it could be. Lets just say I'm watching with interest.
Cheers
8)
Eeyore
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