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Originally Posted by xxBrun0xx
Would be interesting to start a poll of people >10k miles to see who still has crickets.
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20,500 here, and the crickets still sing. I have found a local station with 92 octane E0 that gets rid of crickets, but other E0 stations have had no effect. Unfortunately I'm on the road every week, so I have to take what's available when I'm 300 miles from home on empty.
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Originally Posted by strat61caster
I asked in the top tier gas thread and nobody answered me, is top tier gas anything more than a marketing scheme?
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It's not the gasoline manufacturers that set the standard. It's a group of auto manufacturers. When the EPA standards for detergents in fuel went into effect, they were actually lower than what was on the market. So a bunch of auto makers (BMW, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen/Audi) got together and created their own standard. All of the major gasoline brands meet or exceed their standard and are thus categorized as top tier gas.
But top tier gas is required to have 10% ethanol. If you get E0 gas, it's not top tier gas, so it doesn't have to have either the ethanol or the detergents the top tier distributors have. That's why I think it's the detergents that are causing the crickets.
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Originally Posted by Daedex
I haven't read through all 100+ pages, but have we found an underlying cause for these crickets?
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LOL no. Just lots of theories. I have my own, which I think is better than everyone else's, but in the end it's still just a guess.
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Originally Posted by DoomsdayJesus
It's a good reason to avoid low-volume gas stations.
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That's the thing that bothers me about putting E0 gas in my car. Sure, it might get rid of the crickets, but what else is it doing?