Is Bad Gas Wreaking Havoc on Fuel Systems?
Is Bad Gas Wreaking Havoc on Fuel Systems? Friday October 3, 2008 I’m generally one to scoff when I hear somebody referring to “bad gas.” Sure, if gas sits around and turns brassy or if your fuel tank gets contaminated with water, it’s bad. But the phrase is thrown around a lot when it comes to car problems. If somebody can’t figure out why a car or truck is running poorly, they can always resort to the “bad gas” theory. It’s usually just a way for a shop to get a customer to go away rather than wasting diagnostic hours (which are billed in real time) when their techs could be building up service hours (which are billed by how many hours the book says). But I digress. The point is that there is seldom such a thing as bad gas that has been freshly pumped from a gas station. I say seldom because a recent burst of complaints has me rethinking my earlier theories on bad gas. The media attention has focused on drivers in Corpus Christi, Texas who have seen premature failures of fuel system
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)I’m generally one to scoff when I hear somebody referring to “bad gas.” Sure, if gas sits around and turns brassy or if your fuel tank gets contaminated with water, it’s bad. But the phrase is thrown around a lot when it comes to car problems. If somebody can’t figure out why a car or truck is running poorly, they can always resort to the “bad gas” theory. It’s usually just a way for a shop to get a customer to go away rather than wasting diagnostic hours (which are billed in real time) when their techs could be building up service hours (which are billed by how many hours the book says). But I digress. The point is that there is seldom such a thing as bad gas that has been freshly pumped from a gas station. I say seldom because a recent burst of complaints has me rethinking my earlier theories on bad gas. The media attention has focused on drivers in Corpus Christi, Texas who have seen premature failures of fuel system componen
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}I’m generally one to scoff when I hear somebody referring to “bad gas.” Sure, if gas sits around and turns brassy or if your fuel tank gets contaminated with water, it’s bad. But the phrase is thrown around a lot when it comes to car problems. If somebody can’t figure out why a car or truck is running poorly, they can always resort to the “bad gas” theory. It’s usually just a way for a shop to get a customer to go away rather than wasting diagnostic hours (which are billed in real time) when their techs could be building up service hours (which are billed by how many hours the book says). But I digress. The point is that there is seldom such a thing as bad gas that has been freshly pumped from a gas station. I say seldom because a recent burst of complaints has me rethinking my earlier theories on bad gas. The media attention has focused on dri
