Comments on: Amount of octane in our gas

By: Fahad

Fahad — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:47:32 +0000

can anyone help me and tell me the MON of the ULTRA (green) Octane 98 ?

By: Musa'ad Haider

Musa'ad Haider — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:00:18 +0000

mEL: I read somewhere that higher octane only avoids knocking and gives better acceleration but mileage normally goes down with higher octane fuel.

By: mEL

mEL — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:52:19 +0000

my car performs better on the Ultra and better mileage.

This post helped me :D

By: jojo

jojo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:37:05 +0000

Iirrespect of the Octane No. in kuwait the problem is really in the residues & impurities in the fuel(including water ),the worst impuriteis are the gums that burn and damage the pistons. and if Kuwait’s fuel stayed for too long in the tank ( like parking a car or bike off season ) it disolves the rubber parts & seals around the submerged fuel pum and rusting the tank

The expensive 98 ( green pumps ) is actually IMPORTED !! That is why it is too expensive for Kuwait.
If your vehicle is not a high performing one the I suggest one full-up of the 98 Octane after every three full-up of the lower octane

By: abood79

abood79 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:11:21 +0000

K.theKuwaiti:

True but in the case of octane it is impossible, look it up.
BTW: I work in the oil sector for 8 years now and bumped heads with CEO’s of major company’s and heads of marketing.

By: Khalid

Khalid — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:53:02 +0000

Lucky people.. I pay Â£70 (37KD) to fill my r33 skyline (65 litres tank) here in the uk.. at Â£1.08 a litre and it does 25mpg if I drive her gently, which is hard!
It will only use shell v-power too which is the most expensive. I was told that in Japan they have some really high ocatne juice. I think Kuwait should give all its citizens abroad a free fuel card.. Mark.. please bring that into power when you become mayor :p

By: K.theKuwaiti

K.theKuwaiti — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:47:57 +0000

abood79:
From my experience gas chromatography can do a pretty accurate job.

By: K.theKuwaiti

K.theKuwaiti — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:44:13 +0000

And .. RON is RON .. Road Octane Number is actually RdON.

And Purg is a Professor of Chem .. He approves this message.

By: K.theKuwaiti

K.theKuwaiti — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:40:52 +0000

Mark:
Thats for the UK .. they are weird, like the British Gallons and Imperial lengths.

By: abood79

abood79 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:59:15 +0000

Did you know that there is no real way to test octane no matter what number.
Food for thought

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:34:09 +0000

I copy pasted what K said into the forum and got the following reply:

Although the octane rating used in the UK is RON it is not the Research Octane Number. The UK RON is the average of the RON and PON quoted above and should be the one quoted on forecourts. Our RON acronym refers to Road Octane Number. Standard UK fuel rating is 91 (Don’t remember seeing it on any forecourt for years. Premium (normal fuel) 95, super unleaded is 98-102 RON depending on the supplier. BP is 102 RON.

By: Ð¯

Ð¯ — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:29:17 +0000

I use 98 octane, wondering if the dealership just have some perverse desire to bust my bank account.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:12:45 +0000

Yup really helpful info. So now I can save 5 fils per liter :)

By: Purgatory72

Purgatory72 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:04:04 +0000

What K said is correct.

By: Armani Exchanger

Armani Exchanger — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:31:56 +0000

I was reading in a Jeep forum that the Wranglerâ€™s engine was made to run on 87 octane and anything more could actually be bad for the engine. So I wanted to check how much octane is in the Premium gas.

So does that mean you will not drive it any more? :P