RobBentley
The Torque Meister
I think there must be some contamination in the fuel or a bad batch of fuel at my local shell as last week the RS6 started running like a bag of spanners. Ignition timing was all over the shop (I have a p3cars vent gauge so I can see live timing, boost, EGT's etc) and it'd miss so badly at 5000rpm+ it'd feel like somebody stamped on the brake pedal for 0.5/seconds every now and again.
I've always run the car on V-Power and thought something was failing on the car to be honest. Then a few days ago I got caught short nowhere near a Shell station and ended up filling it with 95 octane BP. The car then magically started working perfectly within a few miles and this is when I became suspicious. I decided to run the tank nearly dry on Thursday and went back to the same shell station and put in £20 as a test. Sure enough after a few miles, all the problems came back. I've since been back to the BP and tanked it again and all is good in the world once more.
God knows what's going on with the V-Power. I assume it's just this one station near me, I'm going to try the other Shell in town next week (I've got 70 litres of BP to get through now where I tanked it to dilute the crap fuel).
Anyone else ever had a similar experience? It's my first time getting fuel problems...
I've always run the car on V-Power and thought something was failing on the car to be honest. Then a few days ago I got caught short nowhere near a Shell station and ended up filling it with 95 octane BP. The car then magically started working perfectly within a few miles and this is when I became suspicious. I decided to run the tank nearly dry on Thursday and went back to the same shell station and put in £20 as a test. Sure enough after a few miles, all the problems came back. I've since been back to the BP and tanked it again and all is good in the world once more.
God knows what's going on with the V-Power. I assume it's just this one station near me, I'm going to try the other Shell in town next week (I've got 70 litres of BP to get through now where I tanked it to dilute the crap fuel).
Anyone else ever had a similar experience? It's my first time getting fuel problems...