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Any one been caught with the dodgy fuel?

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Evilgoat:

--- Quote from: "schuee" ---Looks like the problem is silicon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6409025.stm
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Autotechnic confirmed this this morning for me. After allowing my o2 sensor to cool down from umpteem billion dgrees C the engineer dunked it in something to clean it iff, dried it and slammed it back in, where it worked again for 5 mins before disentegrating. Seems its 12 years overdue replacement. Ho-Hum, £35 poorer and instructions to just use the rest of the fuel as its all hype anyway and takes a partly dead sensor to suffer from the problem anyway.

Also did me knock sensors at the same time (unrelated)

Then I got robbed at the post office (Car owners fine, sorry Tax)

They said yes, they have seen a few more cars than normaly and a few with damaged o2 sensors but a lot of it is hysteria. Aparently you only need worry if the sensor is already choked up and then its iffy.

edy:
owning a series that i belive would still run of the doggy fuel i am willing to pay you 10p liter for your dodgy fuel lol

trustyrusty:
on and off over the pass year tesco at loughbrough has had this problem . the wifes friends micra was playing up after filling up from there  then died. change  plugs/fuel filter ect.. turn out the local paper was looking init as about 100 others had same problem, they say it was water in the petrol. :x

Evilgoat:

--- Quote from: "edy" ---owning a series that i belive would still run of the doggy fuel i am willing to pay you 10p liter for your dodgy fuel lol
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Its gone :)

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