E10 for 240s?
 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51731757

I believe this should be ok for 240s? Think this was discussed a few years ago.

I've tried E10 in all of my Hondas. Irrespective of any longevity or materials degradation issues, they don't like it.

I'm going to avoid it in the 240 for as long as I can.

E10 should be fine in a 240. However, the E10 at my nearest petrol station doesn't have high enough octane for my 1992 with LH2.4 injection. It tends to ping its way up hills with the air con on if I use anything less than 95 octane, even though technically 91 should be fine.

Time for a LPG revival?

Hi All,

When I took 'Greta' to Sweden a while back E10 was pretty much all I could find from about the Dutch border northwards.

About 10 days and 1600 miles, it didn't seem to make much of a difference but that was a K-Jet.

Scott

I don't think E10 will make any difference to the Royal Barge's B21A engine - that is a fortunate accident: it is young enough to run on bleifrei but old enough not to have any sensors and computes that might get confused by a slight change of fuel.

More ethanol in the gas is sort of an inevitability, and generally a good thing if our human race is going to live on a bit longer, but it may mean that a generation of cars become difficult to drive and maintain without significant modification.

Alan

PS. By chance I saw this in the Telegraph this morn:

https://classics.honestjohn.co.uk/ne...-classic-cars/

Not something I am worried about with running our cars mainly on LPG.

Carb and Kjet cars will adapt with little issues at all. LH2.4 is a bit less so and changing the ECU chips for ones geared towards E10 would be a good idea

It looks like all will be well:

https://classics.honestjohn.co.uk/ne...lassic-owners/

In the same way that they said leaded 4* would continue to be available for classic owners? Yes, there were (still are?) about 4 petrol stations in the country selling it. :)

According to this list there are 36 garages selling leaded 4 star petrol in the UK:

http://www.silverforce.co.uk/TB-UK/list.htm

... but I take your point though, 36 among 60 million people is still not many. I don't think this is much to do with the government (which is, I suppose whom you meant by 'they'), I think it is just down to there being almost no demand.

I suppose most people with a motor that needs 4 star leaded petrol have either modified it with hardened valve seats, or they have found an additive to compensate.

:-)

Alan