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Australians, what can be done about crap fuel?

Been having intermittent pinging problems for months on my wife's '94 MX5. Eventually we realized it only pinged badly when using fuel from a particular local station. The differance is quite obvious, with this fuel, it pings disturbingly pretty much right through the rev range, fill up somewhere else & it's fine. The motor has done 120K, and is in overall good condition, I have not checked timing to see if it has been "tweaked" at all.

Who can I call to get a spot check made? Looks like they are topping up with kero or acetone or something.

Reply to
Mal Osborne
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Mal, how many Aussie's do we have that frequent here would you guess? We should start a thread, "where are you from?" That could be pretty cool.

Chris

99BBB (Texas)
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Chris D'Agnolo

On the other hand, There's quite a large contingent of Aussies at

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(And we love 'em all)

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There are fuel standards and it sounds as though the "crap" fuel is of a lower octane rating than what might be posted on the pump (making a neat extra profit for the seller).

"A supplier or producer found guilty of supplying 'off-spec' fuel may face penalties of up to $550,000."

Compliance with fuel standards is enforced by the Department of the Environment and Water Resources. Brilliant what can be accomplished with a simple Google search of "Australia motor fuel standards" .

You can read their entire spiel at:

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John McGaw

Nice work John!

Somewhere here in the US I heard something about a company who was caught with thier pumps miscalculated (to the customers detriment). They allegidly bilked thier customers out of ~ $1.25 million. They were hit with a $500,000 fine. Hmmmmm, that'll teach 'um, eh? I'd have liked to see them have to give away $1 million in free gas before they could start charging for the stuff again. Now THAT would be a deterant!

Chris

99BBB
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Chris D'Agnolo

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