E10 petrol

I have some older Micras , pre 2000 with the Nissin engine management as opposed to the later Bosch ... from what I gather pre 2000 Micra's are not officily recommended to use E10 .... I seem to get the idea that E10 has been used down under for a while and has anyone any issues with earlier Micra's using this fuel ?? .. my main concern would be corrosion of parts exposed to Ethanol ..

thanks for any input :-)

I used e10 for about 4weeks go shitty mileage, I always used 91 or 95 plus car ran like a bucket of shit

ethanol fuels are never as simple as put in & run, you need a decent tune & bigger injectors as the car will run like shit. also as RTK mentioned e10 gets bad fuel efficiency 15% more usage than standard pump fuel and no real gains. if your going to run an ethanol based fuel might as well run e85 if going through all the effort, will get the same usage of fuel but with a 20-25% increase in power with tune & injectors.

corrosion is inevitable using ethanol but upgrading all your fuel lines to suit will make the last longer.

at mate of mine has been running e85 in his familia gets about 350k's to a tank and upgraded all his lines to braided

Yeah I trialled e10 in my '95 K11

Dodgey fuel economy, car didn't seem to drive as well.


I run 95octane in mine and get great economy (better than on 98)

I always run 98+ octane, occasionally with a mothball added to the tank to increase the octane rating. I get better economy and torque... cruise uphill in 5th where I usually have to drop to 4th with one mothball.

we have (E5) 5% in all uk petrol anyway (apparently 10% in some supermarket fuel)
and with 33% less energy in ethanol, its not gonna give any power gains

thats what I wondered Frank , if we are already using 5% mix , why does a 10% mix suddenly cause problems with fuel lines , tanks , pumps etc due to corrosion , performance aside the cars are just pottering around to the shops and work as opposed to doing any gutter scaping around country corners ( not that I did much ;-) ) , one car did 1500 miles last year so its not a big mover !!!

the E10 is supposed to be more stable than E5 eh mike, but i think if you go from E0 to E10 you will feel a noticeable difference (like the AU trial, and the german public,s rejection of it)
it would have to be a lot cheaper for me to want to use it personally