Anyone had problems with E10 Gas??

[Cocobum]

A month back my gas station started to carry the gas that had up to 10% ethanol in the gas and right after I filled up for the first time with the new E10 gas my gas gauge has stopped working (it was on 1/4 then just dropped to empty). I've had to deal with this already in my boat (E10 gas ate through the fiberglass gas tank I had) and had to replace all of my fuel lines, filters, seals... ect.

Has anyone else had to replace the fuel system parts or will I be ok?

 

[BB33's]

I've heard of this happening to other peoples trucks so I don't put it in mine. 76 and a few others do it, I use Chevron.

 

[shift1313]

i have heard of issues with O2 sensors but never what you speak of. Ive been running that in all my vehicles(3 different cars and 3 different motorcycles) with no ill effects yet. what station are you buying from?

 

[Cocobum]

A hess station, the other vehicles that I drive haven't been affected by it either. Unfourtunatly the county has just passed a law saying all gas stations have to pump this E10 gas so there is no way to avoid it. Guess I'll just replace it the part and hope for the best.

Thanks.

 

[RBuffordTJ]

A month back my gas station started to carry the gas that had up to 10% ethanol in the gas and right after I filled up for the first time with the new E10 gas my gas gauge has stopped working (it was on 1/4 then just dropped to empty). I've had to deal with this already in my boat (E10 gas ate through the fiberglass gas tank I had) and had to replace all of my fuel lines, filters, seals... ect.
Has anyone else had to replace the fuel system parts or will I be ok?

Down here in the "Sunshine State" (aka ****'s waiting room) a law was passed last year requiring all gas sold in Florida must contain %10 of that crap. It is killing boats like you mentioned and if you leave it sitting in your tank, say on a weekend rig, it will seperate and ***** up stuff when you restart it. There are a lot of people fighting with it here, and our heat doesn't help any on a sitting vehicle.

Rick in Orlando

 

[BroncoJoe19]

Cocobum

For the last five years or so I have been buying gas at two different stations, they have a continual price war going on. One uses E10, the other not. So it ends up that half of the gas I buy is E10, and I have not had a gas related issue with my bronco, or any of the other 4 vehicles. As a side note: the E10 place closed up almost a year ago and now the other started using E10, I buy 90% of my fuel there.

I suspect that your fuel guage is a coincidence.

I doubted that E10 could affect fiberglass, so I googled it, and to my surprise I found a government site that says that with older fiberglass boat tanks that it COULD!!!

http://hawaii.gov/dlnr/dbor/e10gas.htm

 

[RBuffordTJ]

CocobumFor the last five years or so I have been buying gas at two different stations, they have a continual price war going on. One uses E10, the other not. So it ends up that half of the gas I buy is E10, and I have not had a gas related issue with my bronco, or any of the other 4 vehicles. As a side note: the E10 place closed up almost a year ago and now the other started using E10, I buy 90% of my fuel there.

I suspect that your fuel guage is a coincidence.

I doubted that E10 could affect fiberglass, so I googled it, and to my surprise I found a government site that says that with older fiberglass boat tanks that it COULD!!!

http://hawaii.gov/dlnr/dbor/e10gas.htm

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There is a class action suit aginst the government right now from a boat owner's group here in FL trying to get them to have an exemption for boat owners so their gas can be free of the E10. Alas...the power of fear....man made global warming fear.

Rick in Orlando