The Optimax Myth

[dieselpower]

Dunfermline was back in business tonight too []

Looks like Optimax is back out there.

Just put some in the tank in Camelon, plus a tanker was sitting filling up in cumbernauld!

[wurzel]

Sorry mate but this is rubbish! it will need a remap. We have 100ron V-Power over here and the standard UK tek2 ecu could not compensate for the extra ron! under hard acceleration your car will boost to something like 1.2bar then drop to around 0.4 bar then it will boost again to 1.2 then drop to 0.4. How do I know this I hear you ask? well that is because this is what happened to mine so I spoke to Bob Rawle and he confirmed that the ECU could not handle the extra ron.

I had the car remapped in england on a mixture of quarter tank 95 mixed with 25 litres of V-Power, this is so that I could continue to run my car on UK fuel, if you get your car mapped on V-power you are askingf for trouble if you can not get to a shell station that sells it.

[MY94]

Got my fix today.

[oobster]

Got filled up no probs (99.9p per litre though) @ Shell Whitburn

[frank c]

Musselburgh and parts of Edinburgh are starting to fill up again..

[andrew_forrest]

Sorry mate but this is rubbish! it will need a remap. We have 100ron V-Power over here and the standard UK tek2 ecu could not compensate for the extra ron! under hard acceleration your car will boost to something like 1.2bar then drop to around 0.4 bar then it will boost again to 1.2 then drop to 0.4. How do I know this I hear you ask? well that is because this is what happened to mine so I spoke to Bob Rawle and he confirmed that the ECU could not handle the extra ron.

 

 

That's rubbish ! Extra ron, over and above what the car was mapped for will have no effect on the boost control. If this was the case then every UK car designed to run 95 ron would have issues with 98 ron optimax or 99 ron tesco fuel. This clearly is not the case.

Andy

[fai17]

Sorry mate but this is rubbish! it will need a remap. We have 100ron V-Power over here and the standard UK tek2 ecu could not compensate for the extra ron! under hard acceleration your car will boost to something like 1.2bar then drop to around 0.4 bar then it will boost again to 1.2 then drop to 0.4. How do I know this I hear you ask? well that is because this is what happened to mine so I spoke to Bob Rawle and he confirmed that the ECU could not handle the extra ron.

 

 

That's rubbish ! Extra ron, over and above what the car was mapped for will have no effect on the boost control. If this was the case then every UK car designed to run 95 ron would have issues with 98 ron optimax or 99 ron tesco fuel. This clearly is not the case.

Andy

The God has spoken..so take note dudes.[]

[craigdmcd]

To help possibly clarify why the shortage happened, I happened in to the Shell garage at the south side of the Forth Road bridge (to a distinct lack of Optimax), and after putting in £10 of normal unleaded in (the fuel light had already been on for 25-30 miles), asked  the boy behind the counter "Why the shortage?". The reply seemed a very feasable excuse that a large number of the delivery trucks were off the road getting "Mot's" done, and Shell had put a bigger emphasis on delivering normal unleaded and diesel to the stations.

[paddy247]

I find it hard to believe that a multi-national company cant delivery there product becouse the trucks need an mot.

So if thats the case will it happen every year then lol

Shell are full of it and have treated there customers with total arogance, I cant wait till TESCO  come up with the goods. ie 99 ron.  

[G.T.]

i agree with you paddy cant wait for tesco finest petrol to become available up here, im fed up with paying a quid a litre for optimax so im going to try sainsburys super unleaded and see if i notice a difference. i think its just bp ultimate anyway and its usualy about a penny dearer than normal unleaded

[roy]

the myth of the optimax

when i was in filling up today the manager of my local station told me there was a shortage because of the fire at the oil refinery down england a few months ago (the one that was on all the news) optimax has been the petrol that had to be rationed so they could keep supplies of unleaded runing smoothly but said it has now been sorted out and supplies will start coming back soon