Auto Owners Beware!

[homersipes]

well me personally, I wish they would do away with the whole ethanol crap.  I have rebuilt the carbs on everything I own, tractors, bikes, sleds, snowblowers, weedwackers, if it has a carb it has been rebuilt.  I have NEVER had problems like this until they put that junk in the gasoline.  My mom can run e85 in her truck which is a 2007 I think chevy 1500, but she MIGHT get 5 miles per gallon, vs regular gas where she gets 11.  I dont see how its "greener" either.  So now instead of being refined crude oil or however it works, now you have to have tractors running to cut corn crops, <<<<<burning more diesel.  Oh and thanks for taking corn and making food go up also.  WHY PUT FOOD IN GASOLINE??????? I dont get it   used to when I was a kid, and a lot of you are older than me, you could dump gas on a fire and it would go WHOOOSH now it goes pssss as it putts the fire out 

[rpm]

You could always move to Oklahoma. I saw tons of places with 0% ethanol signs. Of course it was 10¢ a gallon higher.

[trigger2]

So basically what they're saying is that you shouldn't use E15 with cars that aren't designed to handle E15

Next story: the menace of diesel fuel pumps at gas stations

Sumed it up right there. 

[icepac]

Here's one that kept us going through the slow months a while back.

On January 16, 2009, Toyota filed a Defect Information Report (DIR) with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regarding certain 2006 2007 GS 300/350, 2006 2008 IS 250/350 and 2007 2008 LS 460/460L vehicles. The involved vehicles are equipped with aluminum fuel delivery pipes (fuel rails). Lexus has determined that ethanol fuels with low moisture content will corrode the internal surface of the fuel rails. As this condition progresses the engine malfunction light (MIL) may illuminate. Over time, the corrosion will create a pinhole resulting in fuel leakage. SSC 9LA will be launched to replace the Fuel Delivery Pipes in the affected vehicles.

There are approximately 43,700 GS 300 (24,500 2WD, 19,200 AWD), 23,700 GS 350 (14,000 2WD, 9,700 AWD), 85,800 IS 250 (54,000 2WD, 31,800 AWD), 24,900 IS 350, and 36,400 LS 460 (25,500 LS 460, 10,900 LS 460L) vehicles involved in the U.S.



Read more: http://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-second-generation/403278-lexus-announces-safety-recall-on-select-vehicles.html#ixzz2H9ACQJRm

[tassos]

In Germany they have E10 since 2011,Now they will stop this big fail cause.
-Combustion engine cars Patent from 1889 yeahr use more Gasoline.
-Combustion engine cars Patent from 1889 yeahr got Fuelpump Gasket damage that means Gazoline runs in the Elektrik and fire...
-Combustion engine cars Patent from 1889 yeahr make less KM/H
-Combustion engine cars Patent from 1889 yeahr make more fine dust that cause 99% Cancer
-The price for food in the World goes dramatic up
-They burn more Forest to make Fields for the Alkohol Ethanol

(-Combustion engine cars Patent from 1889 yeahr are Cars from 1889 till 2013 who use Gazoline to make fire to go forward)

You will Not find a LPG Gas Station in Stuttgart....Thank you Mercedes Mafia and go to Hell with youre stinking New Cars old Tecnik in new dress.....

[phatzo]

my biggest beef so far, especially in fuel stations out in the boonies that may not have a big turn over of fuel and their tanks sit for a while

hygroscopic


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygroscopy

[ToeTag]

This already happen in the early eighties with Gasohol.  It ruined gas lines and engines and was dropped like a bad habit.  But lets try it again shall we?

[LilMak]

My 2 primary rides are 45 years old. Most of the carb issues I've had happen after they sit for too long. Running them on a daily basis I don't have any trouble. I do change my rubber fuel lines about once per year anyway but that's what I've always done and has nothing to do with the aclohol in the gas. I've started bringing my fuel can for the yard equipment to the airport with me and top off there when I'm filling the plane. 100LL is expensive but it's cheaper than buying a new lawn mower and weed whacker every year. 100LL is also designed to be stored for extended periods of time. Most marinas sell ethonal free gas too. E85 DOES screw stuff up, but mostly when you let the equipment sit for too long in my experience.

[LCAMerciful]

This already happen in the early eighties with Gasohol.  It ruined gas lines and engines and was dropped like a bad habit.  But lets try it again shall we?

That's my point exactly.  Ever since the late 80's cars' fuel systems have been designed to tolerate a certain amount of alcohol (ethanol) in the fuel.  Simply put, if you car does fine with E10 it shouldn't have any problems with E15.

Here in Missouri I haven't seen a station that doesn't sell E10 in.. well at least 15 years!

[Flench]

Not going to put that stuff in my truck . I have to pay alittle more for ethanol free fuel but I have seen that it does to carbs first hand .

[Rash]

I have two 1988 454's in my boat with Rochester carburetors.  I had the floats stick in one of the carbs a few years ago, but that was due more to a bad filter letting junk get in there.  I't doesn't have any rubber hoses in the system.  I looked in one of the aluminum tanks a couple years ago with a mirror, and it looked brand new.  It makes sense, the alcohol mixes with water and removes it from the system.


PS  on the other hand, my lawn mower is 4 years old, and the carb was all rusted up running e85.  Cheap metal?

[Flench]

PS  on the other hand, my lawn mower is 4 years old, and the carb was all rusted up running e85.  Cheap metal?

That and water .