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It was about eventually burning the valves/valve seats due to the lack of lead in the fuel.
Yes I knew that was the case but it does not seem to have happened as yet, which made me wonder if the E10 warnings might be less dramatic than has been suggested.
Why does E5 not do the same damage but just take twice as long?
That's a good question! In my case, of course, it DID do the same damage, and I don't know how long it took to do so. I suspect that in terms of water absorption, it probably IS doing the same damage to classic cars and always has done. In terms of fuel line and rubber seal damage, either E5 has always been doing the damage and the lower concentration just means it takes longer to become apparent, or maybe there's a threshold level below which the rubber can tolerate it? Doesn't seem very likely, but I can't think of anything else.
Just buy some of those magic pellets that Spitfires used in WW2
I'm a subscriber to Classic Car Weekly & for a great many moons now there has been a full page advert for these devices every week, so presumably someone must be buying them, if only to pay for the adverts.
I've considered going for it, but have a natural aversion to any form of 'snake' product.
And you would be absolutely right to do so! The pellets are indeed, pure snake oil. In my last job, in fact, I worked at a university where one of the lecturers had been approached by Trading Standards and asked to investigate. They were, indeed, absolute snake oil (as are those magnets that people used to sell you to clip round your fuel line). Quite how people are still flogging them is beyond me!
If people will buy them, people will oblige by continuing to sell them.
