Shell V-power and chirping

[drewbot]

Originally Posted by RFB

Makes sense as a corporate rip off profit motive move, no more ESSO 91 corn juice free , but the same 91 with ethanol added to try to make it 93 ( less gas, more corn, more profit ).

I would rather have the pure 91.





CERBERUS

91 E0 = Shell V-power

Although I hate Air Miles rewards

[Roadcone]

i've run what is supposedly pure 93 fuel in mine since i bought it... its chirped since day one...

[RFB]

Originally Posted by drewbot

91 E0 = Shell V-power

Although I hate Air Miles rewards

And lets hope

the greedy military-industrial complex corporate pigs left wing loonie communist environmental terrorists ego inflated tax collector politicians (et.al.) {apologies to anti-freedom goblin scum I missed}

don't mess with the last pure gas.



CERBERUS

[drewbot]

BTW, for science, I filled up with Esso 93 E10. Put in 45 L, and the remaining fuel was Shell 91 E0.

Let's see what happens...

[drewbot]

Originally Posted by drewbot

BTW, for science, I filled up with Esso 93 E10. Put in 45 L, and the remaining fuel was Shell 91 E0.

Let's see what happens...

150 km into my tank, no chirps so far...

[mabviper]

So I'm updating my findings as well. After putting 2 tanks of Shell V-Power, chirping is not noticeable... Maybe it's the winter blend that Shell uses.

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[sergiomordo]

I bougt my car a bit more than a month ago, today i am at 3300 smth kilometers and i have always used Shell 91 0% ethanol. I realized the crickets couple days ago, and they havent left since.

[umirinfrs]

i had the same problem with esso, shell and petro. I just did an engine cleaner at 11k and an oil change (5w30) and its gone....

[Kliph]

Originally Posted by umirinfrs

i had the same problem with esso, shell and petro. I just did an engine cleaner at 11k and an oil change (5w30) and its gone....

What was the engine cleaner you used??

Thx...........Kliph

[nocwage]

The crickets is one of those things you are blissfully unaware of until you read about it on the forum and then suddenly you hear them all the time

[paiceyfan]

Had the car 8 months and no chirping. I have used Shell V-power for the life of the car from a single gas station and it has just started chirping recently...I think it is independent of gas, unless Shell changed something recently.

[tanner]

Originally Posted by PMPB

WThe official explanation is that the pump causes cavitation.

About four months ago one of the guys on here from the Philippines on ft86 had his HPFP replaced. Tech showed him the parts inside the HPFP that causes the noise (most likely due to the cavitation as you mentioned), and whatever Toyota changed, it seems to have resolved (well at least for me) the chirps ever since I had the HPFP replaced back on Jul 26. So far about 5000 km on this one vs 2800 km on the original one before it started to chirp.

Don't know what the part number is, don't recall seeing it on the paperwork. Asked if I could keep the old part so I could tear it apart but couldn't as it was being sent back because of the warranty.