We have a serious problem with penguins falling into our fuel tanks here and contaminating things - the better filling stations have those sticky penguin strips to keep them out of the fuel... sorry about the troubles you were having. :-) I used to live in Nova Scotia and there are some stations that I would stay away from for that reason. I had a similar experience going to Washington so I don't think it is a Canada only thing. As always, I go to filling stations that are busy and that are brand name. I mainly stick to Petro Canada or Chevron. I've never had a bad experience like that in BC or AB, both of my two current gasoline powered VWs have never skipped a beat and unfortunately they drink their fair share of fuel. David Marshall Fast Forward Automotive Inc. 4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road Quesnel BC Canada V2J 6Z3 http://www.fastforward.ca mailto:sales@fastforward.ca Phone: (250) 992 7775 FAX: (250) 992 1160 - Vanagon Accessories and Engine Conversions - Vanagon, Transporter and Iltis Sales and Importation - European Lighting for most Volkswagen models
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-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf Of ROBERT DONALDS Sent: November 5, 2003 4:32 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Canadian gas vs lower 48 states gas
Fellow listees I want to hear from anybody who travels back and forth from the states to Canada or vise versa about there experience with the two fuels. This past summer I traveled to Amherst Nova Scotia and I made it on one tank of Texaco gas I filled up just before I crossed over the border. I filled the tank in Amherst NS with Erving gas as I recall and had to add 10 dollars Canadian to make it back to the same Texaco station. The power was down and the now famous Ken Lewis O2 monitor had to be pinned to keep the vanagon moving at the pace I am acustomed to (75 to 80 MPH). Also this past week I had a customer with a classic 71 bus call me from Canada and tell me the van was skipping at highway speeds after about the first 1/2 hour of driving he admitted to going faster than I recommended but this skipping as not happening in the states the engine had a few thousand miles on it any thoughts going faster miles an hours I remain Bob Donalds Boston Engine Exchange http://www.bostonengine.com |
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