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I use the APR bar 1.0 chip which recommends 92 octane, but can only find 91. Issues with this?

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Old 09-21-2001, 06:58 AM
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Default I use the APR bar 1.0 chip which recommends 92 octane, but can only find 91. Issues with this?

BTW - I am in Newport Beach CA.
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I'm hearing some bad crap about this newfangled ****ty CA gas -- some people are having problems with chips and are seeing whether 100 octane resolves the issue (check engine lights).

The car recommends 91 at a minumum, obviously the chip recommends a bit better fuel.

Damn CA fuel changes :-(

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any gas additives that folks here use to increase octane? Do they really work?
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I'm pretty sure APR recommends a minimum of 91 octane, not 92. Did you call them and confirm?
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Default It will cause some problems..............

a friend of mine chipped his A4 with APR and also lives in CA. He said his car was idleing very rough and it just wasn't running the way it should have. He sent it back to APR and they reproggramed it(or something like that), and now it's running smooth.

Hope that helps.
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I have asked that same question several times and have never gotten a useful answer
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