Fuels

Anti Ethanol additives are not a cure or solution to the ethanol problem. They simply suppress and slow down the destruction of vulnerable fuel system materials.

You only have a problem if you live in one of the UK ethanol zones, I'm assuming everyone by now knows where they are. And even here there are solutions.

Outside of ethanol country, simply take a ride to your local Esso station and use Synergy supreme+ 99 RON with the RED label. This is E0, despite the E5 sticker. Problem solved.

From the Esso web site:-

Although our pumps have E5 labels on them, our Synergy Supreme+ 99 is actually ethanol free (except, due to technical supply reasons, in Devon, Cornwall, North Wales, North England and Scotland). Legislation requires us to place these E5 labels on pumps that dispense unleaded petrol with ‘up to 5% ethanol’, including those that contain no ethanol, which is why we display them on our Synergy Supreme+ 99 pumps.

There’s currently no requirement for renewable fuel, like ethanol, to be present in super unleaded petrol although this could change in the future, in which case we would comply with any new legislation.

Cheers for adding this, Tony.

Talking of solutions to the E problem, if living in one of these zones: There is Avgas, if you are friendly with an airfield fuel supplier or a light aircraft pilot. There is a Swedish E0 petrol, Aspen (Expensive) available from large lawnmower shops and the like. And there are Ethanil kits where the damaging E is taken from the fuel, though a booster (Not the Boris type) will be required to raise the octane level. 

Better to load the car with a few cans, me thinks?

Is the use of Avgas not illegal in road vehicles for taxation reasons?

Also, I think I am right in saying that the 2014 Bonnie has fuel injection so would probably take exception to the Ethyl-lead in Avgas.

If its been decat'd then it will be ok damage wise, but the taxation issue remains as does it having a cat taken off but 2014 may be ok for that.

Legal or not, sometimes Avgas is used as a safe top up to raise Octane. That for the individual to make a judgement on. Alternatively I should have mentioned British & American E0 leaded racing fuels, again not cheap but certainly legal.

Yes, leaded not good for fuel injection and cats. 

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