JoeT4R
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JoeT4R’s 2001 SR5 Build Thread
In the 9.5 years that I’ve owned my rig, I’ve had the opportunity to fill up with non ethanol a hand full of times. Whether it was 87, 89 or anything above. Regardless of it being a higher octane, I still yield better MPG’s due to the lack of ethanol content.
To further explain, I can only get about 220 miles max out of a tank using regular 87 octane with ethanol. I was able to drive more than 296 miles today and still have a bit more than a quarter of a tank left. So hopefully that will give you enough confidence to try it whenever the opportunity presents itself, whichever octane may be available.
I will say, it was expensive. Very expensive. However if I’m yielding better mileage and it’s “better” for my engine, then I’m willing to dish out the extra coin for it. Where I live there aren’t any non ethanol stations so I only have the opportunity to fill up with it once a year when we go out of town.
If they had 87 octane non ethanol, I definitely would have chosen that instead. But given that they only had the mid grade non ethanol offering, I opted for that instead of the 87 with ethanol. The first time I tried it (last year) I was uncertain and nervous about running a higher octane in fear that I may cause damage or some sort of weird effect on my truck. None of that proved to be true, so my worries were set aside rather quickly.
EDIT: 256 miles with a quarter tank left.
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In the 9.5 years that I’ve owned my rig, I’ve had the opportunity to fill up with non ethanol a hand full of times. Whether it was 87, 89 or anything above. Regardless of it being a higher octane, I still yield better MPG’s due to the lack of ethanol content.
To further explain, I can only get about 220 miles max out of a tank using regular 87 octane with ethanol. I was able to drive more than 296 miles today and still have a bit more than a quarter of a tank left. So hopefully that will give you enough confidence to try it whenever the opportunity presents itself, whichever octane may be available.
I will say, it was expensive. Very expensive. However if I’m yielding better mileage and it’s “better” for my engine, then I’m willing to dish out the extra coin for it. Where I live there aren’t any non ethanol stations so I only have the opportunity to fill up with it once a year when we go out of town.
If they had 87 octane non ethanol, I definitely would have chosen that instead. But given that they only had the mid grade non ethanol offering, I opted for that instead of the 87 with ethanol. The first time I tried it (last year) I was uncertain and nervous about running a higher octane in fear that I may cause damage or some sort of weird effect on my truck. None of that proved to be true, so my worries were set aside rather quickly.
EDIT: 256 miles with a quarter tank left.
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