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Old 11-01-2009, 11:21 PM   #10 (permalink)
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well you may not have enough miles to encounter a problem. I figure it takes on average 4-5 years for E10 to kill the fuel pump.

The miles I drive means I do that 4-5 years in 8 months to 14 months. (I drive 40,000 or more miles a year)

This is why I think so few people are connecting the dots with this E10 problem. IE they no longer have the car by the time the fuel pump pukes and the next owner just thinks its a used car so it happens.

The few of us who really crank up the miles AND keep our cars for hundreds of thousands of miles (for example I bought my cherokee with 92,000 miles on it in 1996 I now have 493,000 miles on that vehicle I put in another engine at 485,000 miles while the old engine still ran fine it leaked from everything and I got a nice enough deal on a rust bucket with a young engine (119,000 miles) that it was cheaper to swap engines than to rebuild.

In fact my Minivan and now my metro (not for long) are the only vehicles I have with under 200,000 miles on them.

I buy my gas all over the place from 19057 PA to 08215 NJ.

I have now decide to ONLY buy gas at Sunoco on Rt73 split and Wawa's since they overall have the lowest ethanol content at 6-8%

I have since stopped using the sunoco since they now have 10-11% ethanol wawa is still at 6-8% for now.

I figured this out when I started to get crappier mileage in my cherokee at Sunoco so I tested the gas again. 11% so I stopped buying their gas.

HOPEFULLY wawa will stick with what they have now since that jump from 6-8% to 10-11% is a 4mpg difference for me in my cherokee.
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