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Re: A question on fuel grades or octane



On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:56:37PM -0700, Chris DeLong wrote:

> OK. I have a comment about this. On my '80 Scirocco the door sticker says 
> "91 octane minimum". I would have to beleive that running low octane fuel is 
> not within manufacturers guidelines.

mmm, but is that 91 RON octane or 91 R+M/2 octane? I b'live VW quotes RON
numbers, but in the US we use R+M/2.  Really, the R+M/2 test is insanely
innacurate and should have been junked years ago.

Dan

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