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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:37 am 
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Vortex is 95 Ron
Vortex98 is 98 Ron

Personally I have never seen a noticable differance between 95 and 98, but then my car is stock. I find that it is worth changing to 95 from 91 (ULP) Engine runs smoother, Better milage.

 

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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:24 pm 
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i go with Vortex car runs beeter and gets more ecconomy then optimax.

personally i dont like supporting shell we have a shell survo in town and its the only survo in town so they are f**k ripoffs last time i checked unleaded was $1 14.9 per L.

 

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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 6:12 pm 
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SBR wrote:
i thought caltex fuel was made by shell, like last week i saw a shell truck filling up a seven eleven!!

and i do notice difference between Bp and shell, i try and go for Bp.
Shell dont own those trucks (for that matter I dont think any fuel companies own their own trucks). They use contractors and some contractors service more than one fuel company. That is probably why you saw a shell truck at 7/11. And back on topic I dont notice a difference on optimax when compared with ULP. BP ultimate on the other hand I found is cheaper to run than ULP due to the extra K's I get out of a tank. I sat down one day and did the sums and figured that premium works out to be roughly 30 cents per 100 K's cheaper than ULP. Thats what Ive found anyway.

 

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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:17 pm 
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well a bit of an update for you, since putting the vortex stuff in the car a week ago, i have done only city driving, and the car is running smoother, less pinging, and this is on the first tank, altho i did run my last tank of ULP empty.
I have a few hundred kilometers to run this week country driving so will see how it goes, as well as after a few more tanks.
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:30 am 
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I put plain PULP (98 RON just doesn't seem worth it) in my car the other week but can't really notice any change tbh. I'm still pulling 16L/100km on the TC for city driving and it doesn't feel any more sprightly than before. I'm going to reserve final judgement until I run a few more tanks through her though as it still had about 1/4 of a tank of regular ULP in it when I put the PULP in so that may be diluting it somewhat.

 

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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:25 pm 
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voids wrote:
i go with Vortex car runs beeter and gets more ecconomy then optimax.

personally i dont like supporting shell we have a shell survo in town and its the only survo in town so they are f**k ripoffs last time i checked unleaded was $1 14.9 per L.


My local Shell is $1.149 p/l for optimax.

Run a few tanks of BP Ultimate 98 thru it a while ago and wasnt real impressed. Just didnt seem as lively and it didnt go as far as optimax.

 

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