Petrol for MKV

[broady69]

Ok, so being new to Australia, what is the best petrol to use in the GTi.

[Pharkus]

I think you may have missed out the 100RON shell petrol available only at select outlets

[jb747]

What about Shell Optimax?

Interesting UK article here. As one of the cars they tested is a GTI it's reasonably relevant.

http://fifthgear.five.tv/jsp/5gmain.jsp?lnk=601&featureid=143&pageid=-1

[anarchycamp]

What about Shell Optimax?

Interesting UK article here. As one of the cars they tested is a GTI it's reasonably relevant.

http://fifthgear.five.tv/jsp/5gmain....=143&pageid=-1

I think they recently changed Shell Optimax to Shell V Power 98, same stuff though.

[burtybear]

Mate, only fuel I would even consider for my car is the BP Ultimate 98. Used Optimax previously in my other cars (Holden Calais V6 Supercharged & Mazda 6) and made them run like tractors. I used it even before my service dept. recommended it to me. Maybe read the threads in "Fuels and Lubricants" for more informed advice than what I can give.

[jb747]

Well, I'm stuck anyway. The car is a company lease, and I have to use Caltex.

[burtybear]

Could be worse...

[VCL888]

Always been a Mobil user for my benz. Used 2 tank of Mobil 8000 on the R32 already, gonna try BP Ulti with the next 2 fill up before perm using one of them!

[Lukev85]

BP ultimate all the way. Used everything else and found that ultimate has the best performace and usage.

[THE KOP]

Why didn't they do an average fuel consumption test.

[Lima]

Generally use Caltex Vortex98 from the local bloke round the corner from home. The car runs fine.

Will use BP Ultimate as a fall back option.

[broady69]

Well I filled up with BP Ultimate 98 a couple of days ago and I'll say it does make a HUGE difference to the useless juice the dealer puts in. It feels like I've added another turbo.

On my way to work on Thursday, I put my foot down on the Dreamworld on-ramp to over-take a truck and I was doing 180 by the time I got to the motorway!!! Amazing!!!

With regard to doing a consumption test, we did one in SA using a few cars and each one ran 3 tanks of each kind of fuel and we recorded the results. We also had access to a dyno to compare KW figures and the results are different.

I'm prepared to give it a go if anyone else wants to take part.

Any thoughts....