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Old 05-26-2016, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by biker1 View Post
If there is pinging/knocking with regular gas there is something mechanically wrong with your golf cart. These are low compression engines and 87 octane is plenty of octane. I did try one tankful of ethanol free when we first got our cart and it made no noticeable difference. If you are noticing a difference with octane free gas you may want to consider having your cart checked out.
Thanks. Pinging was the wrong word to use as it conjures up cars which used to do that from time to time. The noise was hard to describe but after 18 months it's running like a champ and I've used Ethanol free ever since.