RE: Pinging after being sharked

[Daniel Chenault <DanielC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

~$1.40 in Dallas, TX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Myron [mailto:dmyron@domain.elided]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 4:36 PM
> To: 'Tim Stiles'; Dave Myron
> Cc: BMW Digest (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Pinging after being sharked
> 
> 
> I know how you feel about paying for gas. Here in Seattle the price of
> premium is about the same (a few cents less actually). 
> 
> Hey Digesters, just for fun: What price do you pay for 
> premium gas in your
> area?
> 
> Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Stiles [mailto:tstiles@domain.elided]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 2:23 PM
> To: Dave Myron
> Cc: BMW Digest (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Pinging after being sharked
> 
> 
> 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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