Hamstor

I got pulled over in a RBT station the other week, and was asked why my fog lamps were on. I answered I left them on as I thought it added saftey (making me and the road more visible). The copper said it was illegal to drive with fog lamps on unless there was fog...

Country run: Did a near pure country run yesterday(200km, most at 80 or 110), filled up before and after on E10. Got 8.6l/100km I also took my Navman to test the speedo accuracy. It scales a bit, starting at about 1.5km/h slow at 60, getting up to 3km/h slow at 110. Basically, at 80 & 100km/h, to actually do that speed, the left edge of the needle needs to be on the number. To do 110, their needs to be about 2 mm gap between the needle and the indicator line.

I'll have to take my Navman GPS with me on the trip as well just to see what speed it says I am doing. My old Eunos was about 3-5km/h faster on the dash than the GPS and those speed check radar things on some highways.

having filled up on Wed (now Fri morning) and only done a few very short trips (<10km) I am on about 17l/100km... It started at 99.9l/100km when I moved a few metres from the bowser and idled for a while :-) Going on a country drive tomorrow, will fill up again before I go and see how the economy goes, it should show me what a pure country drive economy is around. The previous Camry stated 9.9l combined cycle (new one is 8.9 now I think), with about 7.9 country and 13.9 city on the sticker, but my sticker only quoted the combined.

I think the lower economy is a 'may' not a 'will'. It would be nice to hear from Toyota the pros & cons of using E10 so us owners can make an informated desicion. So far I havn't seen any noticable change in economy. My second tank (my first on E10, the first tank was standard ULP) was much much more stop start cycle than the more highway cycle of the first tank but I still only used an extra 1 l/100km extra. I did notice on the bowser at Shell last night it said that E10 economy 'may' be lower. On Shell's web site, their FQ on E10 has a question "Will I get the same fuel efficiency from an ethanol blended fuel compared to regular unleaded?", unfortunately Shell do not actually answer their own question in the FAQ but rather dance around the edges like a bunch of politicians... Makes you think the real answer is yes in many cases. Having said that, E10 is about 4c/l cheaper than ULP, which is about 4-6c/l cheaper than ULP95 which is about 4-5c/l cheaper than 98's like Vortex.

Back about 5-8 years ago I had a 93 Camry 2.2l, I tried a few tanks of the then named Optimax (now V Power). It made no difference. No noticable power difference and no economy change. Then I moved to a Eunos 800M, Supercharged 2.4 (miller cycle) which required at least 'premium'. The was little economy difference, but there was definetly a power diff between ULP, Premium ULP and Optimax/VPower. I now have the Aurion, and plan to use Shell E10, its cheaper and offers more performance the standard ULP. Shell state on their web site their E10 has a minimum RON of 94. A drop from 98, but who is going to notice the difference between 94 and 95?

You know this is exactly what it says in the manual, but lets face it who wants to fill up on anything but your cheapest fuel day if you can...

bugger, but thanks for the info Strange how my BluAnt could get the phonebook from my iPhone though

Hi again, I have no problem pairing my iPhone to the factory BlueTooth unit in my 08 Presara, but it doesn't seem to transfer things like the phonebook (just sits there saying to get the phone to send it, how do you do that?). Are there any tricks/tips to get these two gadgets working fully together? Cheers Guy

How do the rest of you find the accuracy of the fuel consumption reading? I just got my Aurion, on its first tank, fill to fill the dash reported reported 10.0, however I pushed in 56.51 litres and the trip metre read 523km. Thats an actual economy of 10.8, nearly a full litre per 100km more than the dash reported.