Engen Fuel Quality?

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JOEY_8

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Hi all

I've been chatting to some friends the other day and they were adamant that they can't use Engen petrol (forfeiting the ebucks benefit) since the VW dealership they deal with says Engen petrol damages the spark plugs.

This comes as a surprise as I've never heard this before and also have been using Engen petrol in my cars.

Any truth to these statements?
 
Neuk_ said:
The base petrol is the same as any other brand so it could only be the Engen specific additives. Even then, I have never heard of such issues with Engen fuel...
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That's what I think too but I'm also not too clued up with cars.

It seems to be a common thing being mentioned in Durban dealerships
 
It probably has more to do with a specific filling station local to the area than the brand themselves. Lots of places have dodgy tanks or dilute the fuel with low grade fillers to make bigger profits.
 
I use predominantly Engen, so does my SO. Both Hyundai, her 1.4 NA and my mine 2.0 Direct Injection.
Never had a day's issue. And sparkies is suppose to be replaced every service at 15000. only way VW can moan is if they do not replace sparkies so often.
 
JOEY_8 said:
Hi all

I've been chatting to some friends the other day and they were adamant that they can't use Engen petrol (forfeiting the ebucks benefit) since the VW dealership they deal with says Engen petrol damages the spark plugs.

This comes as a surprise as I've never heard this before and also have been using Engen petrol in my cars.

Any truth to these statements?
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do a test. buy spark plugs. every 1000km take a photo of them. buy another set do the same and only drive on engen fuel.

Yes there is a huge difference on fuel additives. Caltex always had the best additives. kept engine cleaner. But changing to engen after a a couple of tanks of Caltex you see the better fuel consumption. So I ran 1 tank Engen every month.

I still changed plugs every 10 000 km. I hate regapping as you can crack it and send a little piece of metal down the cylinder.
 
Never heard of it and I owned a VW that only ran on Engen for 200,000km without issue.

Modern iridium spark plugs aren’t exactly fragile things.
 
Quicks said:
Spark plugs last much longer now.
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Yeah, but if they find fault with a sparkplug after 15000km then that speaks more of issue with engine than fuel. Timing, heat range, richness, Amps through sparkplug, gap, quite a list of things
Why only them, on 1 kind of fuel, which a lot of people use with no hassles?
 
Site owner here, wont mention brand just cos.

We've had numerous issues like this. Latest is a long time customer, Mercedes states that the GLA200 was damaged due to contaminated fuel, However the customers other vehicles, including a GLE43 have no issues. Its not the first Merc that has supposedly had this issue at our site and others, even other fuel brands. Generally, its a C200, guess the GLA uses the same engine. No other cars have ever had an issue like this at our site.

Damage includes injectors etc. We take all precautions when receiving fuel, only buying from our OILCO, doing water tests twice a day as well as before and after deliveries.
 
Long time ago when we still had our own refineries engen and sasol fuel used to give me poor performance and low mileage, from that alone I stopped using it and havnt looked back.
Shell mostly then bp, caltex.

Recently caught alot of garages with incorrectly calibrated pumps wondering why I'm getting different km out of the same amounts
 
Curt889 said:
Long time ago when we still had our own refineries engen and sasol fuel used to give me poor performance and low mileage, from that alone I stopped using it and havnt looked back.
Shell mostly then bp, caltex.

Recently caught alot of garages with incorrectly calibrated pumps wondering why I'm getting different km out of the same amounts
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I remember this from the racing scene about 10-15 years ago where guys would also experience minor loss in power when using engen and sasol .
 
Curt889 said:
Long time ago when we still had our own refineries engen and sasol fuel used to give me poor performance and low mileage, from that alone I stopped using it and havnt looked back.
Shell mostly then bp, caltex.

Recently caught alot of garages with incorrectly calibrated pumps wondering why I'm getting different km out of the same amounts
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We still have our own refineries, two using crude oil and one using coal, all making base fuel to the same specification. That same specification is also used when importing fully refined base fuel as well, so differences between brands are largely limited to additives.
 
CUZ_458 said:
I remember this from the racing scene about 10-15 years ago where guys would also experience minor loss in power when using engen and sasol .
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That's about the same time 2008 2010 when I experienced it, everyone I spoke to thought I was making things up
 
Big Rat said:
I use predominantly Engen, so does my SO. Both Hyundai, her 1.4 NA and my mine 2.0 Direct Injection.
Never had a day's issue. And sparkies is suppose to be replaced every service at 15000. only way VW can moan is if they do not replace sparkies so often.
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Every 15k km seems very excessive...... Heck Iridiums go up to 100k miles which is like 170k km
 
bennyblanco said:
Every 15k km seems very excessive...... Heck Iridiums go up to 100k miles which is like 170k km
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Back in the days of leaded petrol. when we went to unleaded I know the timeframe got longer.
which makes VW clam even worse.
 
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