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E85 gas in a nonE85 vehicle by mistake is it safe to operate vehicle?
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∙ 16y ago
Depending on what year the vehicle is, likely no problems at all. Most cars/trucks built from the early 80's up are compatible with fuels that contain ethanol.
Ethanol is NOT as corrosive or acidic as people will likely lead you to believe. Methanol is to certain materials, most of which very rarely show up in a fuel injection system.
But it does not mean the vehicle is designed to run on ethanol. But if a later model vehicle 50% E85 or even more % should not hurt things, but I would recommend getting more gas in the tank ASAP. Do NOT apply heavy throttle, as ethanol runs much leaner than gasoline and could potentially cause damage at those conditions. But for a modern computer controlled fuel injected vehicle, running a fair % of E85 will cause no problems other than some drivability issues as the PCM learns the leaner mixture and compensates for it. But at heavy throttle, the PCM often is running on fixed data tables and the leaner mixtures if lean enough, could damage a valve or piston.
Flex Fuel vehicles have sensors to determine the % of Ethanol in the mix, (either virtual sensors or actual physical sensors) and the compensation or learning is seamless.
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