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Posted May 16, 2011 at 6:36PM
Just to clarify - I did not use the wrong pump and I filled up a number of times. In fact I stopped using tesco for a few fillups before going back to them and the car did the same again.
With regards to the juddering - it wasnt all the time just when ticking over (my car is very quiet normally) and when braking or changing gear in 1/2/3
I did nothing different with the other fuel supplies but my car just doesnt like tesco petrol.
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Posted May 16, 2011 at 7:12PM
"..but my car just doesnt like tesco petrol."
Try blindfolding it before filling up next time!
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Posted May 17, 2011 at 7:00AM
Many years ago I rode a moped that hated ICI petrol,I found the cause of the lousy running to be a white cotton-like substance in the carburetor which once cleaned out returned the moped to satisfactory running.I only ever got this problem with ICI petrol.I've also had a car that ran like it was using water as fuel whenever I filled up @ a particular BP station(the local paper carried a story a few weeks later about this BP station spending thousands of pounds having the storage tanks cleaned after a delivery driver had put the wrong fuels into the diesel/petrol storage tanks,made me think perhaps he'd done it before)Another filling station had problems with water contamination(now a funeral home on the site)after heavy rain.
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Posted May 17, 2011 at 8:20AM
Water as a fuel extender may soon be a real possibility, with a reputed 40% reduction in fuel burnt by using the residual heat from the oil power stroke to create another power stroke using steam pressure that also cools the engine [Crower Six Stroke Engine ]1
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Posted May 17, 2011 at 8:32AM
Euu. Just think of a that white emusion in the engine oil if it dosn't run hot enought to evaporate it - wont have to top up the oil just have to remove the water.
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Posted May 17, 2011 at 9:02AM
From what I can gather the running temperature is much the same, but without having the weight of a cooling system. The steam stroke uses and extracts the residual heat from the 1st power stroke and converts it into a 2nd power stroke using the heat created by combustion of the fuel which would otherwise be wasted via the exhaust system. It look good to me.
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