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To avoid topping up my 93 K Series with E10 I bought Super Unleaded, I think it's a B.P station just outside Wick. It was 155p per litre...ouch

So the moral is to do your research before filling up, as that's what used to be called profiteering!

I better add that B.P clan not to use ethanol in their Super [apart from S.W] and it has 102 RON so perhaps that's why its so expensive.

Mr Teddy Bear wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 2:42 pm To avoid topping up my 93 K Series with E10 I bought Super Unleaded, I think it's a B.P station just outside Wick. It was 155p per litre...ouch

So the moral is to do your research before filling up, as that's what used to be called profiteering!

I thought the Scottish Government was subsidising prices in the far north and west to boost tourism?!
I'm sure that it wasn't that expensive on Tiree, Harris and Lewis in May. Mind you we were in the diesel 75.

I meant Wick in S.Glos, it's on the rd to jnc 18 M4.

I also paid £1.55 a litre for Esso Super (or Protection Grade, as it was labelled) this afternoon. Only spent £8 though: that was more than enough to get a classic Mini to its MoT and back!

I think if u get the more expensive Tesco petrol, Sainsburys etc it won't be that bad

Do supermarkets stock super unleaded?
As a general rule it isn't a good idea to run our cars on supermarket petrol because it lacks the detergent additives contained in Shell/BP/Esso.

My 3 LHD Rovers - 1999 75 V6 2.5, 2002 25 1.4 & 1994 214i cab - are fuelled up in France with full E85 (ron 105) respectively since 4 years, 4 years & 2 years without the slightest detrimental effect, so what might be the trouble and hassle with that E10??? Why all that fuss???
My hoses are mint as well as the engines which work nicely, even better than before, and never ever since ages I've used any other petrol than E10 in any of my cars before using E85. On the continent E10 is now by a long chalk the most common petrol used by a vast majority of engines but the old carbureted ones.
You'll be pretty safe all day long & every day of the year with any E10 sold anywhere.

This info is now on the FBHVC website

https://www.fbhvc.co.uk/news/article/fb ... c-vehicles

It doesn't give us specific info on 'our' cars which I'm still trying to confirm.

The Land Rover's guidance is that all K-series, 4- & 6-cylinders, produced after 1996 are E10 compatible. This date looks to be the intro of Freelander, and hence K-series into Land Rover but in my mind it's unlikely that specs fuel system specifications changed in '96 for the fitment into LR products, so pre-'96 could be OK too, as #Dorchester's experience suggests

My neighbour has a Lotus with a modified K series and he has been told , by a Lotus dealer, that it can not use E10.

I put Shell V Power in my 214 today at £1.47 per litre