Chris`I

Where abouts are you based Luke? Try to get out to some rural areas like Scotland or Wales and you'll soon see what the car is all about. Around town it isnt much fun as you get up to speed before you have any real excitement (due to the very linear torque/power) but out on open roads its a hoot

She should keep it a bit longer and get it to 1,000,000km

Dan has done his work, everyone now remembers not to mix tyres, he doesnt need to comment any more

yeah... keeping it under 4k ... LOADS of fun.... Plus... Seen the freakin' weather at mine this morning?!?!! Leave it running non-stop for the next few days, that'll thaw it out I can have plenty of fun in the Zed under 4kRPM too, you dont have to drive it like you stole it to have fun in it

Just go for a few big drives, you could hae emptied it by now

The report on the BBC said they have no idea who did it or would want to do it. It was just a report on what happened and called for witnesses if anyone knows anything. Obviously we know they have their hunch but not enough to do anything about it.

They were on the BBC this morning, I saw it reported on South Today. Hope they have some luck with catching them, but also hope they are ready for some backlash from the twerps that did it for being "dobbed in".

Tried Google? I think we are all in agreement that you should just leave the 95RON as it is and just take it easy until the tank is gone if you want to be 100% sure of doing no damage. Chances are you wont do any anyway, but that risk is up to you.

I know you know the cars and this site well, but do you actually understand where and why the damage occurs? Any damage caused will be through predetonation, and will be be to pistons/big end shells generally and if that happened every time you filled up with 95RON and went over 5K then you wouldnt see the bottom of the first tank, you probably wouldnt get 5 miles down the road. The bottom line of it is that det is more likely to occur when using 95RON as the car is mapped to use a higher octane, notice "more likely" rather than "WILL". Id agree that you are foolish not to put Super in as thats whats recommended, but telling people that engine damage will definitely occur isnt correct. Ask Mark from Abbey. OK so it wont happen every time, but given the fact that people cant comprehend that even putting some 95RON in is a very bad idea, I dont think they are going to sit around and read when and where it might or might not happen. Its easier just to get people to use Super as the manual dictates and not run over ~4.5kRPM when using 95RON when you cant get Super. At the end of the day its up to the owner to do what they want, but people coming on saying "hey run 95RON its fine, nothing will happen to your car" is far worse than telling people it will damage their car when infact it might not happen very often. It obviously happens enough if cars are now starting to die from it Also when you say predetonation - are you talking about detonation (ie knock) or pre-ignition? Two very seperate things.