By sg on Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - 08:12 am: Edit

For Disco II owners - what grade of gas is everyone using? They say it will run on anything but performance suffers. Will it negatively affect the vehicle over the long term?

By Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) on Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - 08:27 am: Edit

Amoco mid-grade (silver)

By Dan on Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - 10:12 am: Edit

Well, my Disco II has been to the service 3 times in the last three weeks. Twice for the “Service Engine Soon”, and once for a ticking sound. So the last time I asked the service rep, in a nice way, WTF. He said that the main reason they get LRs in with the light on is people using low-grade gas. Use nothing but premium was his suggestion.

BTW
I had been using premium, the reasons my light came on was valves the first time, oxygen sensor the second.

By Andrew Vick (Afv) on Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - 04:49 pm: Edit

I think premium is BS, until you run into "ping". I've got a '95 Disco at high altitude, and an '00 Saab Aero, and neither needs high octane. You can always argue that the performance over cost is an issue, but I seem to get the same mileage, same performance, and the octane doesn't seem to matter, IMHO.