so today my father took my car to his job because i needed his jeep to dj a gig.. he filled my tank u with sunoco 89... i always use bp 93.. what do i do? should i buy somethign to clean out the gas tank? should i just wait to my car gets on e to refill it??

 

it's only a one time thing. no worries. Do nothing. I'd at half a tank put in 93

To balance the octane.... use high grade fuel from Shell or Amocco. You'll be ok.

 

you wont run into ANY problems at all dont loose any sleep

 

Can he just add a bottle of octane booster to the tank?

 

you guys are killing me....nothing is going to happen...i used to run 89 every other tank or soo trying to be cheap and save a buck, but then i figured out it was costing me more to use the 89 as i was getting worse gas miliage....

 

Read the manual. It says you must use 91 or above for best performance but if you have no choice then 87 or 89 is alternative until you can find 91 . So you're ok. NO harm just loose performance.

 

rule of thumb never let anyone drive your car when you know you need gas.

You'll be fine 104 octane booster should be fine in that tank.

 

+1

 

Waste of money. ^^



Just run the tank down some and refill with 91 or 93 (which ever you have locally). Not a big deal.

 

-_-

 

nothings going to happen but if ur check engine light comes on just put in some gas treatment & fill it up with whatever u normally use & itll go off after a while... but dont lose any sleep over it. it was a simple mistake thats all.... next time just let him know if he has to put gas it has to be premium or put gas b4 u give it to him....

 

Wow people actually put octane booster in their cars? Talk about a gimmick and huge waste of money. I wouldnt put any of that crap in my tank.

 

octane boost is a big no no!!!

 

its funnyt u say lose sleep cause i was just sleeping and woke up thinking about it and i said let me sign on real fast lol

 

i told him last time he used my car if hes going to put gas use 93 bp and he did. whe he told me he put 89 i almost killed my self lol but he said he puts 89 in his acura mdx all the time but all well lol.. he said next time he knows

 

ty.

 

i was not planning to use that anyway but just to know for the future< why doint u use it?

 

ty everyone els

 

reading this thread again made me remember years ago my boys EX accidentally put diesel in my boys civic. Needless to say that is one reason why they are not together.

 

wow...

Yeah octane booster might burn your 02 sensors out also, do you notice your car knocking at all? I haven't run anything but premium on my TL, but i do remember my G-Pa's Lincoln LS, it would knock with 89.

 

correction it was his jetta, but it was still not cool.

 

Look on the positive side, you got a tank of gas free!
There was probably some 93 remaining in the tank when it was filled, and as many have said before, just do a fillup when the gas supply dwindles down.

 

wtf.. yeah.. friends don't let their retarded girlfriends fill their tank.

 

Awww man...

You're gonna need a new motor now

 

lol