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What brand and octane do you use in your new tahoe?

   
Old October 3rd, 2006, 9:22 PM
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87/BP-American
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87... Unless you've done some mods anything more is a waste of money. I try to stick with the BP also.

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I cant find 87...its either 86 88 or 90 here...

I put in 88
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Where are you located that you can only get 86, 88, 90?
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I would like to run E85, but good luck finding it in California
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I know of 2 in Austin with 5 more being built. There is also one in san antonio.
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e85 cuts your mileage by about 20%
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Try some E85 for yourself and you'll see that in the 07 Tahoe it does not reduce the mileage that much. 0-2 mpg less is it.
But the engine runs noticeably snappier on the ethanol.
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