If you owned a car that required premium, but you put in regular grade fuel. How badly would you mess up the engine?
2006-11-20 15:46:19 · 7 answers · asked by Martin k 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
The car is a 06 Nissan Quest SE. It says that it requires premium fuel, and I will put premium fuel in. But if I can put regular in when gas gets up to $1+ a liter, and get similar efficiancy and performance without damaging the car, maybe its worth it.
2006-11-20 15:58:14 · update #1
Depends on a lot of things like the specific car, temperature, load, altitude, the gasoline used, etc.
The general rule is that you listen for pinging and knocking. A little ping in a few circumstances (going up a steep hill in hot weather) is usually considered harmless. A continuous knock will break the engine so that it needs total replacement (maybe by blowing holes in the pistons). If you don't know exactly how to evaluate pinging and knocking sounds, this is a very risky thing to do.
2006-11-20 17:40:16 · answer #1 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how many times you did it? It would help to know what kind of car it is. Very few cars actually REQUIRE 98 Octane. If you put in regular once or twice, you're probably okay but frequesntly using the wrong grade can cause engine knock which eventually will require you to get new engine parts. You really should use the grade your car requires. If you happen to go to a gas station that doesn't have premium, put in regular and add octane booster. We had to do that when we had a classic mustang. It worked fine on regular as long as we added octance booster.
2006-11-20 15:50:02 · answer #2 · answered by mustangsally76 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Over time it may cause damage to the engine. But using Regular every once in a while won't hurt it.
2006-11-20 16:27:02 · answer #3 · answered by Doug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it probably wouldnt run well, and start breaking down. If you could afford to buy a car that requires premium, dont worry about the extra couple cents and use it.
2006-11-20 15:49:13 · answer #4 · answered by rand a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
top rate gas won't harm your engine. possibly your laptop if your vendors handbook demands a decrease grade gas. in case you have a extreme overall performance engine than that's stated which you employ a greater octane, yet different clever it relatively is not needed. stable success and desire this facilitates.
2016-10-22 11:20:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To my knowledge nothing bad will happen, but performance and efficiency will suffer.
2006-11-20 15:48:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as far as i know it shouldnt hurt it..it might make a little pinging noise but it wont damage it
2006-11-20 15:48:47 · answer #7 · answered by red77chevy350 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋