I could do with some advice on this, and I apologise if it has been sorted long before I got here.

I just took delivery of a Roomster 1.6 petrol and, according to the bits and pieces I got with the car, it requires 98 RON premium fuel. OK, that's a pain in the backside but, since the car delivers way better mileage than my previous model, I figured I was ahead of the curve.

Now, I have noticed some news items on various car-related websites from around April 2009, in which some cars of VAG brands, including Skoda, had their previously 98 RON fuel requirements down-specced, to 95 RON. They appear to indicate that this was less to do with some engineering breakthrough so much as the good lads at VAG being a bit over-enthusiastic with the RONs in the first instance.

This may or many not include the Roomy. But naturally, I am not keen to run it on the automotive equivalent of recycled vegetable oil, if it actually does need The Good Stuff. I am a tightwad, but not an idiot, I just do not believe in over-donating to those poor struggling oil cartels.

BTW, my car has a VIN plate indicating that it was built together by those caring Czech Republicans in Nov, 2007.

Advice welcome.

Branners

I could do with some advice on this, and I apologise if it has been sorted long before I got here.

I just took delivery of a Roomster 1.6 petrol and, according to the bits and pieces I got with the car, it requires 98 RON premium fuel.

Branners

Hi Branners,

I got the same deal as you and now with 3,000k on my auto Roomster it's returning 7.7 l/100 klms which is exactly what the book says I should expect.

All on 95 RON fuel which is what is required according to p230 in the manual and the inside of the filler flap. No mention of 98.

Cheers,

Max.

I though 98 was "super unleaded" and only for high performance cars... surely the ordinary cars such as the 1.2/1.4 and 1.6 should run on oridinary unleaded (95)?

If that 1.6 is the FSI one that they were putting in Octavias, then it does apparently need 98 RON. This is largely why the engine has now been ditched in favour of the 1.2 TSI.

My 1.6, first registered in March 2009, says it should have 95 which is Premium Unleaded here, Super Unleaded is 98.

Thanks lads, I have filled it up with 95 RON and it is humming in fluent Czech!