RE: Pinging after being sharked

[Tim Stiles <tstiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are legitimate reasons for running premium gas. But for many people 
that run it they are really just wasting their money.  There probably are 
BMW's that operate fine on regular 87 octane unleaded.   Here in San Jose, 
CA 87 Octane averages around $1.50 a gallon and 92 (the highest we can get) 
runs close to $1.80 a gallon.  If the car will support it I'd rather run 
the 87 and spend the extra $$ on track time.  The M3 will never taste 
anything less than 92 from now on.

Tim

At 02:13 PM 1/11/00 -0800, Dave Myron wrote:
>Why in the world would you ever ever ever ever ever ever run less than
>premium in an M3 (or any BMW at all), "sharked" or not?!?!
>
>To the best of my knowledge, Jim C remaps the chip so that it is expecting
>premium fuel... so the pinging with low octane fuel is understandable and
>expected.
>
>Put up the extra 10 cents a gallon for the premium stuff... and never run
>anything less in any car ever again.......
>
>D A V E   M Y R O N
>'87 325e running premium unleaded since the first day I had it

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