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Old 01-01-2012, 09:41 AM
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Shell stations are getting harder to find.
Unfortunately businesses haven't figured out that they should provide a Waypoint File for their locations that one can download from the net and then upload into a GPS.
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Originally Posted by MidnightCayman
Sobeys has bought out a large number of Shell stations recently.
And are they renaming them out East? Do they have their own chain?
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http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/8959...tlantic-canada
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Originally Posted by IXLR8
Shell V-Power 91 in the P-Car and Shell V-Power 100 in the motorcycle.
Chevron 94 while in Canada and they actually have 102 in Europe now for the last couple of years but prices reached 1.80 euro last summer....
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Originally Posted by 996Carrera
Chevron 94 while in Canada and they actually have 102 in Europe now for the last couple of years but prices reached 1.80 euro last summer....
I haven't come across it. What brand carries 102 and in which country?

Don't I know it. I put over $64 of V-Power 100 in my motorcycle back in 2008...the price per meter was 1.74 Euro at the time.
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I run a 3:1 mix of pump premium (mostly Shell, but I have had to use Esso or Petrocan in the past) and 100LL AVGAS. There are benefits to owning a pre-emissions 911!
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Originally Posted by jasonintoronto
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Old 01-02-2012, 02:52 AM
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I will have to ask Mr. Sobey what he puts in his 4.0 and GT2 RS.
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Originally Posted by IXLR8
I haven't come across it. What brand carries 102 and in which country?

Don't I know it. I put over $64 of V-Power 100 in my motorcycle back in 2008...the price per meter was 1.74 Euro at the time.
Aral in Germany has it and BP in the UK. I haven't seen it yet in France or Italy where your lucky to find 100. It cost over 100 euro a tank last summer with the higher prices.
Old 01-02-2012, 09:50 AM
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Shell 91. No ethanol. When I posted on this topic last I mentioned my brother (a BMW master tech) telling me that when he has fuel pressure issues in customer cars it's always from ethanol based fuels dissolving sludge from the gas station's fuel tanks and getting lodged in the car.

There is no real advantage to 3 points of octane that makes it worth it imo.
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Shell 91 ... no corn gas.

A petro-can at VP & Ellesmere rd seems to have 100% 87 octane in their tanks. I seem to get the best milage from these pumps in my F 150 ... less if I fill up elsewhere where the pumps have the ethanol content listed ...
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No idea how current this is; http://pure-gas.org/index.jsp?stateprov=ON
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Originally Posted by 9964runner
No idea how current this is; http://pure-gas.org/index.jsp?stateprov=ON
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V- Power works great in my Honda snow blower too.Normally when doing the first start up it was a three step process. Try to start, does`nt, pull the plug and clean it let the cyl breath, then repeat process ,maybe three times.It`s a Honda it will start,,,eventually.
This year fresh V- Power and only one plug clean.I went through the owners manual and there was nothing on the octain rating.Still worried that it may burn a hole in the top of the piston,thinking about doing a blend.
I figure that I might get at least 15 more feet out of the chute using V- Power
Old 01-03-2012, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Xpit77
V- Power works great in my Honda snow blower too.....I went through the owners manual and there was nothing on the octain rating.Still worried that it may burn a hole in the top of the piston,thinking about doing a blend.
does using 91 octane in an engine designed for 87 hurt the engine?

i surfed this question a few weeks ago and figure that it doesn't.

so i've just started using shell premium gas in all my hobby cars/bikes designed for regular gas. i figure the higher price for shell (zero ethanol) 91octane premium gas is more than compensated by higher miles per gallon compared to (10% ethanol) 87 octane regular gas. so the shell 91 is actually cheaper than esso 87 when mileage is taken into account.


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