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Old Sep 3, 2006 | 02:35 PM
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gas stations in jersey got 10% ethonal and i have 15* timing. it now isnt running too right since i filled up at a ethonal getty station. Is it the gas?
Old Sep 3, 2006 | 04:00 PM
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What octane did you use? I had the same issue w/ ethanol gas when I moved to the Northeast from south carolina because i had no idea what it was, but I found that increasing the octane of your fuel, actually counteracts the affects of the ethanol, yeah it's more expensive for higher octane gas but your car runs better, or you may think of buying bottles of octane booster but if you do that everytime you fill up I would advise investing in the company cause it get expensive.
Old Sep 3, 2006 | 09:37 PM
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thats crap man so i gotta go and buy 89 or 93 now cuz these gas stations now have high ethanol content man i can barely afford gas as it is i might retard the timin a little bit if money gets tight
Old Sep 3, 2006 | 10:25 PM
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your crazy to run 87 with 15* of timing, im suprised nothing has happened to it yet
Old Sep 3, 2006 | 10:33 PM
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that's why it's good to live in the south
Old Sep 3, 2006 | 10:36 PM
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dont buy gas from wawa it watered down **** water. I know a guy who works at a local ford dealer and tons for taruses , stang and focuses coming with a complaint of bucking and heisitaiton. they take fuel sample and it comes up tha tit has water in the gas and all the people say they get thier gas at wawa . I get my gas from the camel jockey down the street form me . I dont know if it me but when i get gas from wawa for my work truck it do last as long as if iwereto get it for the camel jockey's gas station. They both get ther gas from 2 differnt places too
Old Sep 3, 2006 | 10:42 PM
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wawa? never heard of it? why don't yall trust a normal company like BP?
Old Sep 3, 2006 | 11:15 PM
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dont buy octane booster they dont contain enough stuff to even raise the octane one poit. and for the gas stations most companies all get the gas from the same place its just marketed under different names
Old Sep 3, 2006 | 11:22 PM
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wawa? never heard of it? why don't yall trust a normal company like BP?

Oh i forgot they dont have wawa's down south

Wawa get there gas for some company and dumps a load of detergents in it and waters it down .

I rather pay 3 cents more or the towel heads gas staion or to Sunoco, Or Texaco
Old Sep 3, 2006 | 11:25 PM
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wawa? never heard of it? why don't yall trust a normal company like BP?

Oh i forgot they dont have wawa's down south

Wawa get there gas for some company and dumps a load of detergents in it and waters it down .

I rather pay 3 cents more or the towel heads gas staion or to Sunoco, Or Texaco

i don't think we really have stations like that? there's a pure gas station that sells 87 which is always atleast 10 cents lower than all round



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