Bio-Ethanol fuel in Cee'd 1.4 petrol

[irish_cerato]

An Irish fuel company, Maxol, is now selling their unleaded fuel with 5% bio-ethanol in it.

I have emailed the Kia salesman that sold me my Cee'd to enquire can I run my car on it and if it voids any warranty, but am curious to see fellow owners feedback on this?

[ahlinj]

In Sweden we have had 5% E85 (ethanol) mixed in for several years. You cannot buy petrol without this here.

[irish_cerato]

Originally Posted by ahlinj

In Sweden we have had at least 5% (maybe 10% I cannot remember) E85 (ethanol) mixed in for several years. You cannot buy petrol without this here.

So do you know anyone running a petrol Cee'd on it?

[ahlinj]

The KIA dealers are selling them as crazy so there is no problem. Since the taxation on E85, petrol and diesel are vary a lot, there have been many discussions about mixing more E85 in the petrol, manually to reduce the cost. I know a lot of people that run's their petrol cars with additional 25-30% E85 in the summer. In the winter this is a bad idea since you will have trouble starting the car when it's below freezing. So the bottom line, in Sweden we have now choice than to buy the 5% E85 mixed petrol and if a car couldn't run on it it would not be sell able here. 5% E85 is nothing to worry about, it's when you mix in more that 20-30% you have to make sure that all components in the car really can handle the E85, gaskets and other rubber parts may not handle the ethanol so well.