Petrol for 1.5lt Mk1

[blackgti1.8]

Yes, welcome
If it's a '80s model, it would be one of the few around - they stopped bringing them in sometime that year. The only MkI after that were Cabriolets or private imports...

(Careful with the Commodore cracks there Loon )

[gldgti]

smithy010, you got it easy.... my girlfrind and i live together on $219 a week..... before rent

(and yes, im job hunting like i need money for an operation.... lucky i've got my health!)


welcome BJ75! nice to have some new enthusiastic golf owners!

[Volksee77]

Hey there black gti, mate im a mechanic and have had well to say the least hundreds of dealings with broken mk1 golfs and the biggest fuel related drama's ive experienced is valves receeding into heads. Personally i use 98 octane in my mk1 but i also have installed an upper cylinder lubricant injector to prevent the valves receeding. If you don't want to fit the kit just add about 1ml per litre of upper clinder lubricant to your fuel tank and this will prevent any drama's, as for "regular" unleaded you wouldn't drink your own urine would you, so don't make your car drink it either

[smithy010]

I have an apology to make to all of you people who take notice of the information on this forum (all of you, hopefully)

I went home last week (a 600km run one way).. Well, i decided to take the loon's advice and put premium in the golf. I'm happy to say that i was blown away at how much better it was. I used 95 octane fuel, and the results were that it was around 15-20% more efficient, it ran cooler, and seemed to be on song all the time. No noticeable power gains, but you take whatever you can get outta the old 1.6 stocker..

I'm a definite premium convert, and my earlier comment was unwarranted, simply because i had never tried premium in my car!

In future, i'll be using premium, as well as the fuel treatment stuff (thanks volksee77 for the advice).

So there you go.

[brackie]

Sometimes a little extra goes a long way. I had a Range Rover Vogue 5 speed in another life. Beautiful to drive on high octane but a dog on standard unleaded.