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Old 05-25-2004, 10:00 AM
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Are there any reports on flooding a renesis (238) with 95 or 98 (roz) unleaded octane fuel?
I was just wandering if maybe the low octane value of 91 in the US is helping these easy-flooding problems.

Maybe someone from Germany or Italy with 95 unleaded (don't think you have 98 unleaded) has flooded it with no apparent reason? I mean, excluding cold start-then-stop.

Or i'm being paranoid waiting for my 8 to be delivered.

BTW- here in my city they sold like 50 rx-8 in past 10 months and there haven't been reports of flooding. At least what dealers (4 of them) and few owners told me.

They only said that some flooding occured while taking the brand new cars of the trucks (here all Mazda's come from Austria Central).
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Re: octane values 91-95-98 and flooding?

Originally posted by osmica
Are there any reports on flooding a renesis (238) with 95 or 98 (roz) unleaded octane fuel?
I was just wandering if maybe the low octane value of 91 in the US is helping these easy-flooding problems.

Maybe someone from Germany or Italy with 95 unleaded (don't think you have 98 unleaded) has flooded it with no apparent reason? I mean, excluding cold start-then-stop.

Or i'm being paranoid waiting for my 8 to be delivered.

BTW- here in my city they sold like 50 rx-8 in past 10 months and there haven't been reports of flooding. At least what dealers (4 of them) and few owners told me.

They only said that some flooding occured while taking the brand new cars of the trucks (here all Mazda's come from Austria Central).
The octane value quoted for cars in the states is measured differently from the way it is measured in Europe. Europe uses RON and US uses the average of RON and PON. Basically US 91 octane is similar to European 95 RON so it should not make much difference. I don't think flooding is affected by fuel octane anyway.

Cars made after some date in March (13th?) should not flood easily as they have new ECU code which is supposed to fix this problem. All older cars will be reprogrammed with this new code at their first service or next time they need work doing on them.
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