Chevron gives me crickets
 

Maybe it's 'cause I live in central CA, and gas is, "specially formulated" or something. But this is 3 for 3. Zero crickets for months, until I fill up with Chevron. Only takes about a half tank.
My '13 FRS loves Costco gas. No, I do not have a financial stake in either. I've had a Chevron card for 40 years.
I did chart my old Celica as getting 2 MPG better on Costco, too. Consistently.
Anyway, just thought I'd share / vent.
Thanks;
Alan:cheers:

In CT everyone gets the same gas no matter what brand it is anyway so...

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I found crickets to be a non-issue if you stuck with the same gas for a good amount of time. Personally going from Shell 91 no ethanol to Petro Canada 94 10% ethanol (not sure of the station brands available to you), I found that initially there were crickets with Petro 94, but over time the crickets seemed to have sorted themselves out and disappeared.


This was with a 2017.

Interesting observation.

With my 2013 I've used only ARCO gasoline. My car (no power mods) has never had the crickets (at least that I can hear).

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humfrz

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I have a stock '13 that uses SoCal Chevron gas at every fill up, I rarely ever hear crickets, and if I do so what. Only been that way for 6 years and 85k. It is just the character of this car.



Crickets have more to do with temperature than it fuel brand.

My crickets all died 3 years ago no matter what fuel I use or temperature it is out. Must have been some sort of plague and they didn't stock up on enough toilet paper so it killed them all.

That's not true.
Nah the seals are gone, it's gonna crap out the day after you trade it in.

Ahh or it is finally just broken in!

The crickets are a hoax!

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humfrz

Oh that is where mine went! TARIFFS.

I'm damn proud of those little guys under my hood

Yes it is it all comes from the same distribution center.

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They grow up so fast! :cry:

Maybe "additives" are added (or not) at the point of retail distribution?

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humfrz

Yeah right, I'm sure the guy behind the counter comes out while the truck from the distributor is there and mixes in Sunoco's special blend... it may be different in other states but here it all comes from the same place.

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You're up there @gravitylover - :confused0068:

Hey, @Tcoat , you used to deliver fuel, what's your take on this?

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humfrz

I have no clue about what happens there but here one depot supplies the same fuel to two or three different brands. No additives are added at the station.

Maybe some additives are added at the tanker distribution point?

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humfrz

Top tier fuel is called that for a reason. The fuel at your local Shell station is not the same as x?x? brand, Valero isn't the same as BJ's or Costco. Most of the fuels that are not top tier do come from a single distributor for a region, sometimes even the others do but they're in separate tanks and often use different delivery companies. They can't all advertise different additives, mixes and chemistry and then sell the same thing, there are laws about that...

https://toptiergas.com/FAQConsumer/ Go down the list of questions, some touch on how the rating works and how fuels from the same truck can be different for different companies and some formulations are different from one company to the next.

Never saw any. trying to get volumes for the mix consistent would be a nightmare.


As Grav said I don't think there is any one "rule" that can be applied across the board.

Anyone use this site
https://www.pure-gas.org/index.jsp
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No wonder OPs car is noisy if they are filling the tank with crickets! I typically just get gasoline from gas stations...

Well, OK.

So, we don't know where or when the additives (if any) are added to the gasoline we buy?

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humfrz

I only drove the ruck and poured the fuel into the tank. Don't know where or when additives were added but can say for sure it was not during the loading or unloading stages.

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¡Ay! ¡Rico! y ¡Caramba! tambien.

I just made an observation.

I was at my local ARCO station filling my FR-S with cricket free fuel while a double tanker truck was putting gas the stations tanks.

I ask the driver about serving several stations from the same set of doubles. He said he goes to the fuel terminal and fills and then goes to one station and empties his tanks. He then goes back to the terminal and gets another load for another station.

He also said that the folks at the terminal inject the additive(s) while the tanker is filling. The additives depend on which station he is going to deliver to.

Just one representative sample, not replicated.

Your distribution area may differ.

humfrz

5 years of only using Chevron and no crickets.

Have used Chevron 92 octane for the last 7 years. First year or two, pretty noisy crickets. Had the new fuel pump installed after they changed the part number. Quiet crickets briefly. Nothing for the last few years.

I thought that mine died years ago too. Just filled up tonight after work at the same Chevron I've been using forever. Drove another mile to my house and hellooooooo! Must've changed to the extra special summer formula or something.

I don't care one bit. Hell, I was starting to feel left out. Yay! Back in the club.

Well I doubt I will have that with the new car!

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