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BetaTested was listening to Cher while typing:
Considering I cannot open my owners manual anymore I wouldn't know weather or not to use premium only. I bought the car used about a year ago. Then again it's an 1982 320i. An inline 4 that produced 101hp stock and displaced 1779cc or so and was suppost to average 25mpg in the city when mated to the 5-speed manual transmission. In the city I'll average about 20, and a good 25 with mixed city/freeway driving, and I got about 30mpg when I took a 100 mile freeway trip trying to keep up with the newer BMWs.
I probably "don't" have to use premium on it, but the sound that it makes when I run it on even 89 opposed to 91 makes me worry and shudder. [edit] Oh and the comp ratio stock is about 8.8:1 I know it's not that great, but still. [/edit]
I'm guessing you sold it... but (for anyone else) try running more than one tank of regular through it and that sound will go away.
You gotta give the computer time to adjust to lower octane.
8.8:1 is nothing. You could probably run 70 octane in it with no problems.
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Somthor had this to say about the Spice Girls:
oddly they were taken off the market becuse no one wnated to buy them
small dick factor 
I would have gladly taken it as my first car... and I would have... except in my sophomore year of high school it got totalled by someone with expired tags, no license, and no insurance... who ran a red light going about 45.
my dad was not injured... the other amazing thing.
He bought a 1999 Chevy Metro which so far has gotten 40mpg at best. But it's a little bigger, a lot heavier, and much better equipped.
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Callalron had this to say about Tron:
Well, let's do some math here. 3.54 liters (one U.S. gallon) times A$0.73 equals A$2.58 per gallon. Each A$ was worth US$0.72 at last market close. 2.58 times .72 equals US$1.86 when you round off.Shit, the best price I can get in town at Costco, where I have to be member is $2.04/gallon.
Trouble is, it hasn't been that cheap for a long while... Prices are currently hanging out at about A$0.95 to A$1.00 per litre though, which is quite a difference. On the bright side, at least we're not Europe.
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Pvednes had this to say about Punky Brewster:
Trouble is, it hasn't been that cheap for a long while...Prices are currently hanging out at about A$0.95 to A$1.00 per litre though, which is quite a difference. On the bright side, at least we're not Europe.
Yes, I remember European gas prices. 
When I was stationed in Germany we could buy coupons for our gas that we bought off-base. It wasn't cheap by any stretch of the imagination, but it sure beat paying full market price on the German economy. Driving back from Hahn AB to my base at Ramstein once, I needed gas and discovered that I was out of coupons. One second mortgage later, I had a full tank of gas and was back on my way.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Super Kagrama said:
oaenly the ROAED WARRIOER woeries abouet gasoelien pricescene!!11
Kagrama! Only you could make me not care about gas prices 
We're used to $0.60 - $0.75 ranges of prices
on the other hand from what i rember your public transportation system is soo good why do you even care?
