sebj
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Just wanted to get peoples views on the two and how it affected their engines.
Cheers
SebJ
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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optimax...
mainly as BP are just pure cnuts, also heard bad things about there ultimate being 'dirty' and causing problems with some engines
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blundey
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petrol is filtered into the lorrys and outof the lorrys to the pumps...i doubt it will be dirty. None the less...both petrols are for performance cars or cars that need a higher octance for example if you was to run nitrous then optimax would be preffered if not neccessary.
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ChrisD16v
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I work for Shell so obviously i would say optimax, however we supply BP with the base hi octane fuel, they just put there additives in which aint of the highest quality. Optimax also acts as a cleaning agent in your engine, this also assists in improving performance, economy and engine reliability!
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Joff
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FFS.
Just search.
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diddon
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is optimax worth it in a corsa c 1.8 sri
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corsa5dr
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I put it in my car. Definitely runs better and apparently gives slightly better fuel consumption, which probably evens out anyway as its more expensive. 89p at my nearest Shell
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Jacko@FFWD
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Optimax all day long 
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steveo.p
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untill it runs out........ lol
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A_Venables
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I run optimax, have done for 2 years now in the SRi 8v, had the head off after about 10K's worth of use with optimax and everything was as clean as a wistle! performance has made a small jump, so I wont go back, hardly any carbon deposits anyware and the car had done 85K, not bad eh?!
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big eck
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I done a post on this a few weeks back and there were fukin loads of different replies, some were very interesting reading, In fact its at the bottom of this thread
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Fad
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neither Esso super unleaded
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Robin
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optimax with 76 cool blue as octane booster, clean, and a lot quicker for me
expensive though
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Joff
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quote:
Originally posted by big eck
I done a post on this a few weeks back and there were fukin loads of different replies, some were very interesting reading, In fact its at the bottom of this thread
Just in case people are too fucking blind to realise...
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by fadscorsa
neither Esso super unleaded
Is Esso Synergy available i the UK yet?
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big eck
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quote:
Originally posted by Joff
quote:
Originally posted by big eck
I done a post on this a few weeks back and there were fukin loads of different replies, some were very interesting reading, In fact its at the bottom of this thread
Just in case people are too fucking blind to realise...
PMSL
thank you joffry
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Fad
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quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey24
quote:
Originally posted by fadscorsa
neither Esso super unleaded
Is Esso Synergy available i the UK yet?
not yet but i've tried all the other brands, found ultimate too expensive, optimax just didnt feel any diff after using it for a week and also heard about detonation of older egines from using it so stick esso super with changing my fuel filter regularly  I super to be the best seeing as i was doing 140ish miles a day in my XE. Super is only 81.9 p a litre where i am
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Joff
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STOP FUCKING REPLYING TO THIS THREAD 
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Gambit
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quote:
Originally posted by robmarriott
optimax with 76 cool blue as octane booster, clean, and a lot quicker for me
expensive though
aye that extra two points of octane booster taking it to 98.2 ron is well worth the money
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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what does it mean by "pinking"
i read someone mention that their car pinks with normal unleaded but doesnt with optimax??
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Gambit
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pinking is caused by the timing being out. on most modern day cars the ecu will advance/retard the timing for you. but older cars need set manually
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