On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:21:23 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote

Can you explain though why there is a different smell to the exhaust on
Ethanol powered cars. Its like its sweet and almost sugary on the tip
of ones tongue, or is this just me and my peculiar sense organs!

Probably. We have always had E10 here and I have used it to see if its
better value and havent found that it is.

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On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:32:54 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Been quite a few scare stories in the press about how E10 petrol -
coming here later this year - will damage many older cars. Much of it
the usual press ********, after all E5 has been around for quite some
time, and is known to attack older 'rubber' flexible fuel pipes.
Which don't last forever anyway. Much of it generalization, but one
specific was mentioned.
It attacks the solder used on carburetter floats (those made of
brass).
Any comments?

I used an ethanol added (~10%) petrol in the fifties, sixties and
seventies in my Triumph T100 motorbike and in my Ford RS1600 car. It
was called Cleverland Discol and proved to be an excellent fuel with a
perceived extra zip.



Of course most petrol had lead in it up to the nineties.