BlueByYouGT
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That’s incorrect and stop making up nonsense to try to justify why you aren’t following manufacturers recommendations.
As the current manual says anything less than premium fuel “could cause a loss of engine power and increased fuel consumption”. That means on premium it will perform as intended, but on 87/89 your causing the engine to protect itself from knock/detonation and it must pull timing to compensate. That in turn makes it less efficient so it loses power and fuel economy. That’s definitely under performing which is not how Kia built and intended the engine to run.
This has been stated and explained dozens of times in different threads.
Gas. 87, 91, 93 Octane?
That one example explains that when AAA thoroughly tested a wide variety of vehicles on required vs recommended fuels it found similar high performance engines gained 8-15% better fuel economy(2-4mpg) and about 10whp more just by using premium. Other car magazines have done similar testing and found some engines gained about 20whp/20wtq on 93.
You and the few people not using the recommended premium fuel crack me up. You chose to spend $5k-10k or $100/m more for the high performance 3.3TT but then use bottom of the barrel gas just to try to save a few bucks.If you were concerned over .30-.50/g difference in fuel prices you should have gotten the less performance oriented 2.0l instead.
Jeez dude, every thread I click on I see you arguing with a different person. You really love arguing with everyone.
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