Re: Contaminated fuel and O2/lambda sensors

Certainly an option depending on what the contaminant is. Mind you people
are claiming the contamination is causing their car to "stall and misfire".
Now ive run a few cars with the 02 sensor pulled and they didnt drive
brilliantly but they still worked well enough for "normal" drivers and
passengers to not notice it.

Some people are claiming its ethanol - if it was ethanol it wouldnt damage
an 02 sensor so id suspect its nothing to do with that.

J
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In article <1172793854snz@deltrak.demon.co.uk>
[email]ames@deltrak.demon.co.uk[/email] "Andrew Stephenson" writes:
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> FYI: an update on the Mystery of the Car-Choking Fuel...[/color]

Again FYI: another update: at the depot, from which the el cheapo
outlets draw their petrol supplies, four tanks have been found to
contain unusually high levels of what the media are still calling
"silicon" (though it seems as if that should be "silicone", which
eventually burns to form silicon dioxide, SiO2, a major component
of most sands, as well as common glass). Now filling stations up
and down the land are having to empty their petrol storage tanks,
clean them well -- and decide what to do about a collossal volume
of tainted fuel. Then there are those hundreds of cars with duff
engines. Interesting times. (Can we UKians interest anyone in a
job lot of el cheapo petrol? You can call it "gas" if you like.)

BTW for the tech-heads amongst us: it appears "silicone" is added
to diesel, but not petrol. Evidently diesel engines can take it,
even need it at times. Does diesel tend to foam? That's the job
the additive is said to do.
--
Andrew Stephenson