Which Octane to use - 2000 Camry LE - 30000 Miles on it.

I have a 2000 V4 CAMRY LE with 30000 miles on it and recently went for 30K
mile service. Guy at service station told me that you need to use regular
gas (87 Octane) in it & V4 Camry is designed for that. He said by putting
higher octane gas can confused the onboard computer or something.

I never put regular gas in it. I always used premium gas (93 Octane). Which
gas I should start putting in it regular or premium or mid grade?

Thanks for the advice!

"kokkie" <kokkie@kokkie.com> wrote in message
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> I have a 2000 V4 CAMRY LE with 30000 miles on it and recently went for 30K
> mile service. Guy at service station told me that you need to use regular
> gas (87 Octane) in it & V4 Camry is designed for that. He said by putting
> higher octane gas can confused the onboard computer or something.

V4 eh? Boy, Toyota's ambitious!

>
> I never put regular gas in it. I always used premium gas (93 Octane).
Which
> gas I should start putting in it regular or premium or mid grade?

I don't know, what's your MANUAL say? If it required premium grade gas, it
would clearly say so on the instrument cluster: "PREMIUM FUEL ONLY."

-Tim

>
> Thanks for the advice!
>
>

Thanks Bruce!

"Bruce L. Bergman" <blPYTHONbergman@earthlink.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 03:13:21 GMT, "kokkie" <kokkie@kokkie.com> wrote:
>
> >I have a 2000 V4 CAMRY LE with 30000 miles on it and recently went for
30K
> >mile service. Guy at service station told me that you need to use regular
> >gas (87 Octane) in it & V4 Camry is designed for that. He said by putting
> >higher octane gas can confused the onboard computer or something.
> >
> >I never put regular gas in it. I always used premium gas (93 Octane).
Which
> >gas I should start putting in it regular or premium or mid grade?
>
> Read your owners manual - all fuel-injection Toyotas have knock
> sensors and pretty smart EFI computers, and are designed to run just
> fine on regular grade gasoline. The manual says something to the
> effect of 'you /must/ use at least 87 pump octane regular, but you
> /can/ use mid-grade or premium "for increased performance".
>
> The computer can advance the timing to get a bit more power out of
> premium fuel, but the power bump you get (under 1 HP) is not enough to
> make up for the 20c to 30c a gallon price bump for premium. The oil
> companies are going to talk up the alleged benefits of running premium
> fuel, because they make more money selling it.
>
> Unless you're going out trailer towing, or on a long trip blasting
> up 8%+ highway grades with your foot mashed to the floor, save a lot
> of your money and just use regular around town.
>
> But to be sure that it's handling the switchover to regular okay,
> the next time you stress the engine climbing a hill roll down the
> window, turn down the radio, and listen for the /lack of/ knocking to
> make sure it has adjusted itself right. If it sounds like someone's
> rattling a tin can full of pebbles under the hood, it's knocking...
>
> >Thanks for the advice!
>
> No problem. Take the money you were wasting on premium fuel, and
> change to synthetic motor oil - that is something that is proven
> effective at getting you longer engine life.
>
> --<< Bruce >>--

You do that in Canada in winter and the car goes about 4 blocks before the
fuel line freezes and the car stalls
Happened at the PetroCan on Hw10 and Hwy 401 about 10 years ago. They dug
all the gas tanks out of the ground and replaced them to cure the water
leaks.

The customers were mad as hell, as initially they said "it wasn't us", but
when more customers turned up with frozen lines the game was up. The
Mississauga news put it on the fron page as I recall.

"Jennie" <anix@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> Use the cheapest gas u can find....some gas is not as good as
others...like
> they put water or something in it to make more gallons to sell....lol
>
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