There is a cool line in the first Matrix movie when Neo is fighting Morpheus and Lawrence Fishburn asks Neo "Do you think that's air you're breathing??"
The same can be said for the octane at the pump "Do you think that's 87/89/91 octane you are getting??"
My 2000 honda accord started pinging this year, first time ever, and the Bandit started to ping more heavily, so I found our state's weights and measures site and checked the fuel octane testing they do. http://www.azdwm.gov/
This is the inspection results page http://azdwm.gov/dwm/pv/Inspection_Search.asp have to type in a search do a city = MESA and inspection type = Fuel Quality
Click on a blue link from say APR and you will see that the RM2 for 87 tested at 89.7 a bit high
Then click one from say AUG or SEPT and you will see that 87 tested at 85.2 or less! Well that explains the pinging.
The octane level is all over the place, the best I could find searching the site is that the minimum standard is 82 octane, for all 3 grades. In Phoenix all our fuel comes in 2 pipelines from Texas and California, so it's the suppliers changing the octane and making more money at our expense. It must be cheaper to make 87 than 91 otherwise there wouldn't be a 25 cent per gallon discrepancy between the 2??? Right???
So selling 91 octane that is really 88.7 is what? fraud? Apparently not
Check your local area weights and measures and feel free to complain. I think in Texas it's done by the dept of agriculture but their site was down when I tried this morning.
Rich
The same can be said for the octane at the pump "Do you think that's 87/89/91 octane you are getting??"
My 2000 honda accord started pinging this year, first time ever, and the Bandit started to ping more heavily, so I found our state's weights and measures site and checked the fuel octane testing they do. http://www.azdwm.gov/
This is the inspection results page http://azdwm.gov/dwm/pv/Inspection_Search.asp have to type in a search do a city = MESA and inspection type = Fuel Quality
Click on a blue link from say APR and you will see that the RM2 for 87 tested at 89.7 a bit high
Then click one from say AUG or SEPT and you will see that 87 tested at 85.2 or less! Well that explains the pinging.
The octane level is all over the place, the best I could find searching the site is that the minimum standard is 82 octane, for all 3 grades. In Phoenix all our fuel comes in 2 pipelines from Texas and California, so it's the suppliers changing the octane and making more money at our expense. It must be cheaper to make 87 than 91 otherwise there wouldn't be a 25 cent per gallon discrepancy between the 2??? Right???
So selling 91 octane that is really 88.7 is what? fraud? Apparently not
Check your local area weights and measures and feel free to complain. I think in Texas it's done by the dept of agriculture but their site was down when I tried this morning.
Rich