Maybe the petrol engines for North America have a different setting for the fuel quality. I am not enough involved in this topic but I remember that there’s a wide variety of different qualities worldwide which all work fine if the engine is optimised for it.
Good point. I remember a video on YouTube from Mat Armstrong who sent a tuned RS6 from the UK to California and ruined the engine of the car due to the lower octane fuel there.
Currently on my 6th BMW X series (5’s and 3’s) and without exception the in line turbo charged 6 cylinder all required premium fuel. My experience with premium high octane fuel is the higher the better. The IG petrol engine is similar to the current X5 and 2019X3M40) so I won’t take the chance with lower (regular) octane fuels.Good point. I remember a video on YouTube from Mat Armstrong who sent a tuned RS6 from the UK to California and ruined the engine of the car due to the lower octane fuel there.
My '96 Discovery has always gotten at least 91 octane - 278K+ miles later still runs great!
From my days in the European aftermarket world, dealing with an Audi ECU tuner based in California (and thus tuning on CA's 91 oct), the average comment was that CA's 91 octane was in actuality nearly identical (from a performance/knock standpoint) to the East coast's 89 octane. Assuming this is correct, it would roughly equate to 93RON. Again, assuming the tuned RS6 was meant to run on 98RON, I could definitely see where the disaster potential exists. There was a point in time where that tuner was going East with a truck and 10-15 5 gallon fuel cans to fill with 93 oct to get proper "rest of the country" tunes doneGood point. I remember a video on YouTube from Mat Armstrong who sent a tuned RS6 from the UK to California and ruined the engine of the car due to the lower octane fuel there.
A - we know the east coast is better
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Knauz told me the same thing three weeks ago when I test drove one at their lot. So I wouldn’t read a lot into that in terms of timing. I think they kind of know it is coming but not exactly.
I've occasionally mixed in some 7 gallons, I think it was, of 100 octane race gas in my E60 M5 (V-10 5.0L) to hit 95 octane and it's a different car with that tank of fuel.
I’m picking it up tomorrow or Saturday
Congrats!
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Which specification did you order? Mine is a Fieldmaster with quite a bit of options including the full diff locks and set up as the trialmaster with the double battery. The only thing I didn’t order was the winches as they seemed to be ridiculously overpriced.
I did not see yours there. No white roofs.Congrats!
While you are there, mind being on lookout for a TM (Sela Green/White Roof, Winch and Steelies)
is identical to mine. Dark grey with KOntires and those same rims. Yours looks beautiful. I can’t wait to pick mine up.
The Donny Grey is amazing. When I saw it in person at the first event in Florida…I knew I had to have it
Yours looks great man! I am more excited now about mine. I added the utility belt, half roof rack and the led light bar. Other than that, ours are identical.
I hope you are correct Krabby.
For your sake @PNW_IG I hope so too... But I'm 10,547 and still not scheduled for production for another month...
