VW 1300 Citi Golf unleaded petrol?

Of course!

Damn, leaded gass still?

Guess where you live likes to kill the ozone.

But it will work fine, you can also add a lead addative if it pleases you.

What does leaded gas have to do with ozone. That's NOT why the lead was removed. Another idiot greenie global warming freak loose who spouts off without even a slight clue about what is real and what is not.

Actually in a roundabout way, it is - yeah, lead in the atmosphere is bad for children but it also kills catalytic converters. So a car that will run on leaded gas by definition has no cat.

nate

You must be so angry because you're so ignorant.

Years ago, it was thought that unleaded gas was bad for valves in engines. Years later, experience taught us that in fact it was not nearly as bad as we thought (though hardened valve seats are standard now...) I suspect that was the basis for the OP's question, and as I think we've all said (almost all of us) runing on unleaded is unlikely to cause any problems. (The 94' Golf will have hardened valve seats, for example).

Right, I got that.

Most of the engines that have problems are 50's or 60's era engines that were made with soft iron heads and didn't have induction-hardened seats or hardened seat inserts. Older engines whose designs predated the widespread use of leaded gas, and newer engines made after the "introduction" of unleaded gas, should be able to handle operation on unleaded just fine (or, obviously, leaded gas - so long as it doesn't have a cat.)

An engine with a catalytic converter, however, cannot be run on leaded gas for any length of time, otherwise the cat will plug up.

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