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Old 03-07-2018, 12:44 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by roosterk0031 View Post
Wife filed the 2015 rogue with E85 (habit previous 2 car were FFV) I noticed it didn't start instantly as normal the next morning, later saw the CEL and figured out what she did. MPG dropped to 24ish, till I burned most of it up that day and kept topping off with regular.
Cold start effectively becomes a PITA without either an auxiliary gasoline tank for cold-starts which was still used in dedicated-ethanol cars and the first Brazilian flexfuels or the electrically-heated fuel rail featured in newer flexfuel cars. But hey, the flexfuel motorcycles can be even worse, since they not just lack space for an auxiliary gasoline tank or a bigger battery to power some sort of injection pre-heater and are still air-cooled...
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