Comments on: RON

By: Piggles

Piggles — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:24:51 +0000

My Mini (also being of German stock) seems completely agnostic to RONs. It is much more sensitive to the particular petrol rather than the octane - seems to like Esso, not so keen on BP and Shell is right out.

By: Richy

Richy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:14:11 +0000

Yeah, I’ve not dared remap my car yet even though it’s out of warranty. Fault code reading is useful though if your engine light comes on. You can see what’s wrong before the garage tell you it’s a million quid. I think VAG (volkswagen/audi) cars can set the service light on for various stupid things e.g. you start the engine with the fuel cap off, in which case you obviously don’t want to pay to have it reset…

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:32:46 +0000

@Richy - sounds interesting on the ECU remapping, but I think I’ll keep my warrantee intact for the time being.

But you’re right, geekery would def make me want to play at some point

@Dom - thanks - I now have a dodgy tune in my head

By: Dom

Dom — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:52:17 +0000

You do RON RON RON, you do RON RON.

By: Richy

Richy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:42:31 +0000

I mean OBD.

By: Richy

Richy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:42:06 +0000

I should. I used to run my race car on shell optimax with a millers competition additive that made it about 100 ron, made a noticable difference. Of course, I didn’t have much choice as it was old and set up specially for that fuel.

Your fancy modern car can adjust up and down by detecting detonation in the cylinders or some such trickery.

You could also consider having the ECU remapped Being a geek you can doubtless do this yourself, have a google around for ODBII protocols and such I’ve a prototype OS X fault code reader that uses ODB, but I got bored of developing once it solved my immediate problem, as you do…