Hi, I'm not sure whether has this topic been posted here before. I have been hearing stories about how bad RON 95 is. People been telling me that this petrol will easily caused car catch fire. This is why now days we have been seeing and hearing allot of car caught fire. I realized that allot of car caught fire victims ever since RON95 been introduced.

I even hear stories like our Ron 95 is not a real 95. It was from the ron92 that added addictive to produce like Ron 95 which can harm the car engines and parts.

I was using RON95 for my Honda city for about 6 months and my car slowly develops problems. Problems like throttle body and throttle sensor making my car chocking. Car behaving weird and when sent to HONDA, the machenIC told me not to use ron95 as it will wear out car parts and damage easily. I experienced difficulties of gear shift. Feels like it dO not want to shift to the next gear, lagging or something. The engine raw. It's louder than before and felt lack of power. So when mechanic advice to use rOn97. Everything works find now. Gear shifting is smooth and no more weird behavior like car chockIng engine dying. Engine is quieter like before.

I would like to hear what are your opinions

what do u use for your car? petronas?shell?bhp?esso?caltex?

shell and caltex

any Proton/Perodua owners experiencing such problems?

or does it only happens to Jap/Korean/Conti cars?

Maybe ur honda city is MEANT for RON 97???

is the said ron95 apply for all pertronas, shell, mobil ect?

honda city type R k20?

My 19 year old Wira is tuned to run on 95
I tried all sorts of 95, my car till now no problems like how you experienced

for me i use either bhp or caltex, n yup i think 95 that sold in our country are not really "95" maybe it just 92 added with special addictive and then declared as "95"

How did u tuned the car?

i stopped using Shell95 cos my car underpowered like shit... some more engine roars so loud like it wants to die

Petronas 95 better, i will pump RON97, almost every 10 RON95 fuel ups

RON 81, RON 85, RON 90, RON 95, RON98, RON 101, any petrol no matter what octane number/rating will also easily catch fire one lah

Try take a ceramic cup and pour some petrol in it. Light up a match stick and just carefully wave the match stick across the surface. It will ignite even the matchstick didn't comes into contact to to the petrol surface. It was due to petrol vapor and petrol can easily vaporize the moment it come into contact with air, especially hot weather.

My neighbour's using a Honda City too, and he has been pumping RON95, and his car has no problem at all. Seldom heard him complaining about his car and certainly never heard him telling me those problems you are facing back then when you are still using RON95.

BTW, Honda mechanic are full of shits. They can cook up a lot of stories so that they can deny customer's warranty claim. I have a friend who drove a Honda Civic. He experience jerking and sometimes cant accelerate smoothly. The mechanic at a few Honda SC keep on reset his ECU for 8 times. They keep on insist that the gearbox has no problem, saying that "1 year old gearbox from Honda wont have problem one" and therefore it doesn't need checking. I go over and F them and when they decide to run a diagnostic check on the gearbox, they found out something in there is wonky. Wont have problem my foot.

so local > jap ?

It is not good for car. Foreman tells me since Ron95 introduced, more cars go for overhaul.

Stories designed for folk out there that will believe everything people tell them. I'm using RON-95 and my car doesn't give any problems. Have poured from different retailers also no issues. For more modern cars with ECU, the engine management system will detect your fuel and adjust the engine characteristics accordingly. Of course RON 97 will give more power and smoothness, that is already proven / given with the available research out there.

It happens to my kelisa as well before I Sold it. Symptoms like engine raw and lack of power. Gear box reluctant to shift gear( auto). Engine vibrate violently. After switching back to 97. Everything ok.

This mechanic probably have not studied science before? RON 95 vs 97 is just a difference in octane level and modern cars have knocking sensors that will automatically switch maps according to RON levels. However I do agree than RON 97 will make the car feels better in terms of performance but it is not true that RON 95 will kill your engine because if it does, 90% of the cars in Malaysia will be damaged by now

my ol' iswara aeroback been using ron95 since begining got no major issue other than power stereng cap kaput few month ago.

Honda is not suitable for Ron95. Period

ECU management