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Old 22-08-2011, 07:42 AM
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Someone just told me V-power is just 95ron with 5% ethanol, it could damage the engine. Has anyone heard about this before?
No chance. They would have to advertise it as a E5 fuel.

There was a 100RON V-power that had ethanol in it which was available in the east, but is now gone I believe.
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Old 22-08-2011, 10:29 PM
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I filled up with some v-powah just before the weekend, seems to go pretty good. Haven't noticed a difference between ultimate though.

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Old 23-08-2011, 07:05 AM
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Filled up 30L of this with ~10L of BP ult left in the tank, so far I've gotten pretty good fuel economy and been going rather hard over the weekend.
Might end up getting the car tuned on Vpower instead of the usual BP98 in 2 weeks time
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Old 23-08-2011, 08:01 AM
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If it has ethanol in it, will it give the engine some kind of long term damage?
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Old 23-08-2011, 08:34 AM
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v power- also notice improvement on economy, friend uses it on his evo 6.5, also notices improved economy over bp
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Old 23-08-2011, 08:37 AM
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If there was ethanol in the fuel you would notice an increase in fuel consumption
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Old 23-08-2011, 09:48 AM
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Have put in a tank of V Power. Haven't noticed a direct increase in economy. Does feel stronger in the lower end.

Strangely, the first couple of Kms driving ith it the car ran "rough and noisy", for want of better descriptive terms, but that disappeared.
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I'm using v-power now and I'm getting at least 50km more out of my tank at this stage. This is the second tank I'm on now so I'll keep an eye on it
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I'm using v-power now and I'm getting at least 50km more out of my tank at this stage. This is the second tank I'm on now so I'll keep an eye on it
+1 here avg about 50-75km more then BP Ult, definitely Economical in my findings. onto my third tank by end of this week.
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