Lexus owners - drive SD only with care and a full tank

Started into SD. Had a full tank of premium from Mn - pure gas. Got to Mitchell and pulled off to see the unbelievable Corn Palace. It was unbelievable. Ate buffalo burger and drank Sasaparilla. Tried to fill up the car with gas. No gas except gasahol. Recalled the boys in the shop saying not to burn that stuff. Recalled some research reoprts pointing out that Alchol can disolve rubber fittings and roughen some of the engine parts like cylinders. These tidbits are in research reports being considered in Mn which is contemplating forcing use of E20 by 2012. Looked up the acceptable gas policy in Volume 72, page

245712 of the car direction manuals. They sounded sort of not too encouraging, talking about damage from engine nocking. Thought about the likely $15,000 repair bills. So I tried calling AAA and the local police. None could direct me to pure gas. Had enough to go further into the state, but stopped at the next few fuel vendors. Finaly found some premium pure gas. This is a scarce commodity in SD, though, so watch out! In fact, I don't recall seeing many Lexus cars in SD, and no dealers. Sure wish the little beady eyed designers had put full size fuel tanks in their cars! Oh well - the luxury Dodge Neon has a small gas tank also. Black hills were nice. And the Bad Lands were BAD and full of deer and prarie dogs and stuff. SD is pretty in a prarie sort of way.
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mcbrue
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Reply to
W. Wells

Re-read your owner's manual. You can use up to 10% alcohol mixture without harming your car.

Reply to
Ray O

Wow. That's one of the funniest posts I've seen in a long while. Well done W!

Reply to
GIga

W Wells - I was not in a car, I was in a Lexus!

Ray O - I did indeed read the text book drivers manual regarding the use of fuels in the car. It has a lot of warnings with the gasahol statement. Those warnings, and the verbal warnings from the mechanincs, combine to leave the definate opinon that there may well be something to the research reports cited in the literature about gasahol that may be inadvisable for long term health of the engine. There are just too many weasel words associated with the 10%ETOH use permit in the car's manual.

Reply to
mcbrue

I have never run into any vehicles with problems related to the use of up to

10% ethanol in my dealings with around 100 dealers in 6 states, and I have been using it since it was introduced without any problems.

My 2001 Owner's manual states: "Lexus allows the use of oxygenate blended gasoline where the oxygenate content is up to 10% ethanol or 15%5 MBTE. if you use gasohol in your Lexus, be sure that it has an octane rating no lower than 87.

Lexus does not recommend the use of gasoline containing methanol."

That seems pretty weasel-word-free to me.

Reply to
Ray O

We have had blended fuel in Az. for about 20 years. And I will say that the stuff does not give the best mileage. But have never heard of any damage to a late model vehicle. My current Toyota is 8 years old and runs perfect. I wouldnt believe any your mechanic says. Scott

Reply to
zonie

Yes, but to a weasel, all words appear weasel-ly.

Reply to
GIga

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