Costco has a disproportionate amount of affluent customers, so even the premium will sell quickly.
Costco sold me bad gas
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There aren't any!
Well here's the thing, sometimes I'll only top off like 3 gallons or so, and bikes, unlike cars, aren't required by law to handle all flavors of gas (no VVT). I put midgrade in once, and immediately got knocking.So you walk the pumps and look at the total in dollars and gallons to determine who pumped premium? That's dedication!
It wouldn't surprise me at all if they screwed up their calculation, because of exactly what mr. slack said:
That's not the case over here.
That's so strange. I wonder how that happened?
What's your chemical theory on how it went bad due to the ethanol?
If there's a Costco, there are a significant number of affluent shoppers around.
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I thought the gas went bad?
BMW K1200S, AKA the best motorcycle ever
Yep. They move so much gas it would have been reported immediately.
What did you do with the bad gas. If it was water it should separate out of solution when it sits for a while?
My dad got a tank of water from a very busy station decades ago. His was regular not premium. We didn’t believe it could happen either till the tank was drained.
No corporation would admit to it even if they knew - especially not a Fortune 500. The publicity would kill then.
My dad got a tank of water from a very busy station decades ago. His was regular not premium. We didn’t believe it could happen either till the tank was drained.
No corporation would admit to it even if they knew - especially not a Fortune 500. The publicity would kill then.
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Gas stations hate to admit problems with their fuel but it does happen. A few years back I stopped and filled up at a local station and was lucky to get home my truck was running so bad. Cracked open the fuel rail and it was obviously a water problem, you could hardly smell any gas. A few minutes later the lady next door came over and asked if I could look at her car. Sure enough she stopped at the same gas station on the way home. A few bottles of water remover and a few bottles of rubbing alchohol took care of the problem.
That was my thought. We had a 2010 Jeep Wrangler that ran poorly on the first couple of tanks from Costco. After that it smoothed out.
Too much crummy Speedway gas before the Costco fan boy gas that I now use
That sounds like an excellent idea! <<<Now THAT'S sarcasm.
If it’s the same area the Costco gas comes from the same terminal down the same pipe. Only possible difference is the add pack.That was my thought. We had a 2010 Jeep Wrangler that ran poorly on the first couple of tanks from Costco. After that it smoothed out.
Too much crummy Speedway gas before the Costco fan boy gas that I now use
Op - did you save the 'bad' gas ?
Maybe get a Gasoline Ethanol Testing Kit.
This will show you how much ethanol (and water) is in the gas.
https://www.amazon.com/REV-X-Super-...hy=104984&hvtargid=pla-4584207577604364&psc=1
And a Gasoline Mr. Filter.
This will filter out any water. I have one and they do work.
(to test, you pour water into filter, and nothing comes out).
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mr.+funnel+fuel+filter&adgrpid=1346902525250927&hvadid=84181633323031&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=104984&hvnetw=o
Save your receipts.
If you have 'bad' gasoline, test it at home and see if water is present.
Filter the water out into a glass jar and go back to Costco.
Maybe get a Gasoline Ethanol Testing Kit.
This will show you how much ethanol (and water) is in the gas.
https://www.amazon.com/REV-X-Super-...hy=104984&hvtargid=pla-4584207577604364&psc=1
And a Gasoline Mr. Filter.
This will filter out any water. I have one and they do work.
(to test, you pour water into filter, and nothing comes out).
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mr.+funnel+fuel+filter&adgrpid=1346902525250927&hvadid=84181633323031&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=104984&hvnetw=o
Save your receipts.
If you have 'bad' gasoline, test it at home and see if water is present.
Filter the water out into a glass jar and go back to Costco.
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If this is true I've been using bad gas for years and just about everything station in the Midwest must have bad gas.
Not saying you don't have or didn't get bad gas, but I wouldn't blame the ethanol.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience, and not saying that you didn't get bad gas, as that is certainly possible. However, there is no way to know for sure, and it's not in any way a knock against Costco if you did, given the rarity of such a thing vs. the millions of satisfied customers who never, ever get bad gas there.
Probably vapor lock. You mentioned it was hot as blazes. Costco moves WAY too much fuel to have enough time (especially when it’s hot) for enough water to absorb into the ethanol.
If anything, a little water in the fuel cools combustion and will “steam clean” some of the carbon deposits in the chamber and on the piston top.
Glad it was resolved.
If anything, a little water in the fuel cools combustion and will “steam clean” some of the carbon deposits in the chamber and on the piston top.
Glad it was resolved.
Costco won’t even build a store where there’s less than like 250k people within like a 5-10 mile radius.
