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lol, its a brand new car! Even Sainsburys 95 is way better than it was designed for. Enjoy the sub £1 a lire goodness.
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lol, its a brand new car! Even Sainsburys 95 is way better than it was designed for. Enjoy the sub £1 a lire goodness.
[TW]Fox;29086449 said:
Stop trying to convince me to save money, your now making me think as the local sainbury's is less than a year old so freshly installed tanks and you are right its only 99p a litre.
Stop telling me all this common sense.
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[TW]Fox;29086449 said:
That's how you avoid stuff building up in the first place. Unless you only out deodorant on once you start to pong?
US car are 435BHP stock on regular 95.
EU cars were detuned to 420BHP for emissions and UK cars 415BHP for RHD manifolds.
US cars with a remap and tuned for say 98/99 go to around 455BHP. So in theory a UK car with a decent remap would jump to 445-450BHP. So a good 30+ horsepower gain, of course warranty voided.
The Shelby intake manifold, throttle body adds a good further 30BHP on top of that but its all after 6000rpm.
For now I am just going to sit back and watch how tuning unfolds on UK cars considering a few UK owners are already gettings tunes from US and ordering super charger kits. Supercharger kits give a minimum of 675BHP and right upto 850-900 horsepower depending on throttle body, cooling and tuner.
What, you need to use it more than once after the mothly bath?
Sure, just do so knowing the only things its really giving you is a warm fuzzy feeling.
I'm a fan of putting in the fuel the manufacturer recommends.
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Disagree.
So the car manufacturers don't know what they are talking about when they specify which grade of fuel the engine is designed for?
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I don't know. What's your opinion? Guess it won't matter anyway - I'm talking longer term effects'
Premium fuel has documented benefits for cleaning beyond things like RON.
But then you champion gearbox oil and it's 'fill for life' specification. My insight is 240k now. Different league of 'life' to what OEMs spec to.
Premium fuel has documented benefits for cleaning beyond things like RON.
But then you champion gearbox oil and it's 'fill for life' specification. My insight is 240k now. Different league of 'life' to what OEMs spec to.
Mate don't worry Vpower is staying in the car, I believe those additives Shell stick in Vpower are good for the engine and a few guys on the UK Mustang forum have said going between super market unleaded to Shell Vpower has had no impact on performance but their mpg has improved by a couple of mpg, some even went back to regular to make sure they were not imagining it and indeed they lost mpg again, back to Vpower and mpg improves again. So it cost more but it last longer and keeps the engine sparkling inside.
Cracking car Gibbo. It looks much better on LEDs (something I think I'll be switching in the Superb when it arrives), and you're right the front end looks much more sorted with the chrome pony gone. 
Enjoy her. I'm not jealous at all...
Enjoy her. I'm not jealous at all...[TW]Fox;29086686 said:
Absolute rubbish.
It amazes me people pay for quality cars and then are happy to put supermarket crap in. Does the manufacturer recommend supermarket fuel?
RON is part of the EN228 spec to enable it to be sold here. Much like all tyres need a safety requirement. If you wore the same hat a longlingditchstarfinder is no better then a Goodyear.
Also I would be very surprised if Ford didn't do anything to the ECU for the UK market.
