mal28

I used BP gas in my 993 for 7 years and never had a problem, but when I bought my C4S this year, the dealer told me not to use BP gas because it has too many additives. This sounds unlikely to me.

Is this true??

jetskied

That sounds dumb since I remember BP gas stations accept Mobil cards. It would seem they share gas tecnology, and Mobil is recomended for Porsche. Any way I use Shell.

Sloth

Perhaps it is a local thing. Down here Mobil used to be located on every corner. My BMW dealer used to always told me to avoid the fuel at Mobil.

Palting

Heh-heh, sounds like you are getting involved in some local potlitics. Maybe the BP station owner nearby stiffed the dealer or something.

earlyapex

That doesn't make sense. All automotive gasolines have additives! Perhaps your dealership could recommend an organic gasoline station

996FLT6

Uhmm...Maybe he thought BP stood for "Bad Petroleum". Regards. Mike(I wouldn't worry about using BP gas by the way)

cJm

Organic gas, that's a good one. A buddy of mine did get a tankful of BP with additives, though. 14 gallons of diesel fuel. The station blamed it on the delivery truck driver. The EPA was notified, the station was fined, car ran fine after all diesel was removed.

chitownbob

We've always used Shell gas in all our cars here. But i did hear that it is good to use different gas from different plcases because teh different detergents and formulas helped clean different deposits. Just my .02 cents.

Bobby

DonW-Cape Cod

There was a discussion on this subject a couple of years ago, and one suggestion involved changing gasoline suppliers every 2nd or 3rd filll up.....the rationale being the fact that different gasoline refiners use their own recipe or formula of additives, and changing brands helps counteract the effect of using the same additives over and over again...sort of a self cleaning philosophy. I have no idea whether it works or not, but I follow that practice.

ArthurK

Dont know about the States but here in Australia the various companies share their fuel depending on the state you are in. For instance in Melbourne Shell supplies the BP and Caltex Petrol Stations and in Northern Territory it is the reverse. This makes it hard to know whose fuel you are actually receiving.

Toreador

Arthur, It's that way here too.
I saw a History Channel special on pipelines, that basically said that if company A puts X barels of gas at one end, they are entiteled to pick up X gallons at the other end almost instantly.
It's not the gas that is different, but the additives.

johnny1423

I heard the same thing from my Infiniti dealer .My J30 was hesitating. He said BP uses too many additives that cause carbon deposits to build up and rob power.Use Shell

Lomcevak

My dealer told me not to use Arco because of additives. I've started mixing about 5 gallons of Sunoco GT into each tankful of Unocal or Chevron to get about 94 octane. BP is at our airport but haven't seen it for the street.