Why You Should Use Top Tier Gasoline

[The_Blur]

Some car guys swear by everything on their car, down to the gas that fuels it. Sometimes, the name brand isn't the most important thing; however, we need products we can trust when it comes to the lifeblood that fuels our cars.

Additives are regularly included in a variety of oil products for various reasons. You might add a viscosity additive to change the resistance to flow of an oil, or you might add a detergent to clean up deposits.

There is a lot of chemistry that goes into how much is the right amount for gas. With the wrong balance, you could be producing excessive byproducts that turn your oil to useless sludge. That's why we use certain brands of oils over others, but oil isn't the only thing going through your engine.

Gas burns to produce the desirable results we get when we push the gas pedal, and that chemical reaction produces byproducts. These byproducts end up sticking to parts of the engine closest to the combustion, like valves and pistons. In order to clean them up, we use name brand oils, but we also should use Top Tier gasoline to ensure that these deposits don't make it to the next oil change.

Over the years, many gas stations have been reducing the detergents added to their gas.

Here's a site with an updated list of gas stations offering the best gasoline.

[shank0668]

Originally Posted by The_Blur

Some car guys swear by everything on their car, down to the gas that fuels it. Sometimes, the name brand isn't the most important thing; however, we need products we can trust when it comes to the lifeblood that fuels our cars.

Additives are regularly included in a variety of oil products for various reasons. You might add a viscosity additive to change the resistance to flow of an oil, or you might add a detergent to clean up deposits.

There is a lot of chemistry that goes into how much is the right amount for gas. With the wrong balance, you could be producing excessive byproducts that turn your oil to useless sludge. That's why we use certain brands of oils over others, but oil isn't the only thing going through your engine.

Gas burns to produce the desirable results we get when we push the gas pedal, and that chemical reaction produces byproducts. These byproducts end up sticking to parts of the engine closest to the combustion, like valves and pistons. In order to clean them up, we use name brand oils, but we also should use Top Tier gasoline to ensure that these deposits don't make it to the next oil change.

Over the years, many gas stations have been reducing the detergents added to their gas.

Here's a site with an updated list of gas stations offering the best gasoline.

Funny thing is that they list shell and the few times we have tried it they V8's wouldn't run worth a crap.

[TheReaper]

I buy from the Big Boys.
Shell
Chevron
Exxon
BP

[Camaro_Corvette]

Interesting, I'm going to have to look for that.

[swizlstik]

I was filling up at Murphy's for about a month and noticed my car being a bit sluggish. I let it get to almost empty and filled up with Sunoco and the difference was almost night and day. True believer in top tier gas!!

[csjcsj]

Who supplies Kroger with their gas? I know they are in with the shell stations, so I was thinking shell!

[The_Blur]

Originally Posted by shank0668

Funny thing is that they list shell and the few times we have tried it they V8's wouldn't run worth a crap.

This just lists the minimum requirements. Some companies on this list are superior in content.

[JJ#48Racing]

Originally Posted by swizlstik

I was filling up at Murphy's for about a month and noticed my car being a bit sluggish. I let it get to almost empty and filled up with Sunoco and the difference was almost night and day. True believer in top tier gas!!

Sunoco isn't on the TopTier list.

[Supermaro585HP]

Sunoco is not on the list but my tuner told me it is all he puts in his cars. I was using BP because they were on the list but now they are not. When I switched to Sunoco I did notice a little difference.

[Kyle2k]

Lol- only one of those stations are up here! - Holiday

[pump905]

who does costco get there gas from???

[Brutal SS]

I buy 93 octane from Exxon exclusively, but would be willing to change if I knew of anything better.

[malave7567]

ConocoPhillips gets my business down here... usually gas up at Phillips66. So much better than the Alon crap that's all over the place here. Even on my brother's 2006 Civic SI, it would run like crap on lower quality gas, and run great on a full tank of ConocoPhillips gas.

[swizlstik]

Originally Posted by JJ#48Racing

Sunoco isn't on the TopTier list.

I have been running Shell and Sunoco only since not using Murphy's anymore and I can't tell any difference in the two.