I have to admit: I know very little of GM engines, and they sell very few cars here. It’s becoming even less relevant as EV’s are just dominating completely, passing 97% here last month.
For me personally it’s the snow blower and motorcycles, but both of those are new enough to handle E10. I still give them 98 as they sometimes have to sit idle due to weather, and we have winter from October to April.
I’ve heard the same about petrol being stored, but I’ve never had issues either. At least a year seems to be more than OK, but that is always 98.
95 E10 might be worse as it absorbs water over time…
Hope your rototiller works fine next time you use it !
Hmm, round here GM (Opel and Saab) was very common in the 00s. Now Saab is long gone and Opel was sold to Stellantis.
It worked fine, used it today, just before the rain so now the ground is prepped for planting crops! Also got the tank nearly empty so I can fill it with fresh fuel in ~October when I need to use it again lol
Chainsaw is the other thing that doesn’t get used a lot, but that has a super slow leak so if you leave it with half a tank, it’ll be empty in a few months. Lawn mower I switched to battery powered and unfortunately I don’t have a snow blower, I have to push my own snow :(
Though I think Makita makes a snowblower attachment for their weedwhacker multitool thingies so I might get one of those if my weedwhacker can run it. One fifth the price of a proper Husqvarna one.
Yeah they recommended the same alkylate here.
I have to admit: I know very little of GM engines, and they sell very few cars here. It’s becoming even less relevant as EV’s are just dominating completely, passing 97% here last month.
For me personally it’s the snow blower and motorcycles, but both of those are new enough to handle E10. I still give them 98 as they sometimes have to sit idle due to weather, and we have winter from October to April.
I’ve heard the same about petrol being stored, but I’ve never had issues either. At least a year seems to be more than OK, but that is always 98.
95 E10 might be worse as it absorbs water over time…
Hope your rototiller works fine next time you use it !
Hmm, round here GM (Opel and Saab) was very common in the 00s. Now Saab is long gone and Opel was sold to Stellantis.
It worked fine, used it today, just before the rain so now the ground is prepped for planting crops! Also got the tank nearly empty so I can fill it with fresh fuel in ~October when I need to use it again lol
Chainsaw is the other thing that doesn’t get used a lot, but that has a super slow leak so if you leave it with half a tank, it’ll be empty in a few months. Lawn mower I switched to battery powered and unfortunately I don’t have a snow blower, I have to push my own snow :(
Though I think Makita makes a snowblower attachment for their weedwhacker multitool thingies so I might get one of those if my weedwhacker can run it. One fifth the price of a proper Husqvarna one.