Just recieved an interesting, if worrying e-mail from a friend. He was looking at getting a 1.6FSI, but found this out.
"You may already be aware of this but there is a plan to replace
standard unleaded fuel with E10 (same octane but contains 10%
bioethanol) and several modern engines are incompatible with this fuel
(including the 1.6FSI used in the A2). This is primarily due to the
corrosive effects it has on some metals and damaging effects on
certain polymers. Initially both fuels will be available but it is
likely that standard unleaded will be phased out within a year or two
meaning that you’d be forced to run the car on the more expensive
superunleaded assuming of course that they don’t start putting
bioethanol in that too. As this fuel will be unsuitable for the
majority of classic cars, I’m sure standard unleaded will be available
from somewhere but no doubt hard to find and expensive.
I did try contacting Audi UK but they were unable to specify which
components would need to be replaced in order to make the FSI engines
(it affects the early 2.0FSI too) leading me to think it would be
fairly major.
The following link lists the cars that are not compatible with E10:
http://www.acea.be/images/uploads/files/20101123_E10_compatibility.pdf"
Has anyone seen this yet? Is a little concerning.
"You may already be aware of this but there is a plan to replace
standard unleaded fuel with E10 (same octane but contains 10%
bioethanol) and several modern engines are incompatible with this fuel
(including the 1.6FSI used in the A2). This is primarily due to the
corrosive effects it has on some metals and damaging effects on
certain polymers. Initially both fuels will be available but it is
likely that standard unleaded will be phased out within a year or two
meaning that you’d be forced to run the car on the more expensive
superunleaded assuming of course that they don’t start putting
bioethanol in that too. As this fuel will be unsuitable for the
majority of classic cars, I’m sure standard unleaded will be available
from somewhere but no doubt hard to find and expensive.
I did try contacting Audi UK but they were unable to specify which
components would need to be replaced in order to make the FSI engines
(it affects the early 2.0FSI too) leading me to think it would be
fairly major.
The following link lists the cars that are not compatible with E10:
http://www.acea.be/images/uploads/files/20101123_E10_compatibility.pdf"
Has anyone seen this yet? Is a little concerning.