Water in my fule

<jack.judy.mor RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I was notified today the Costco had water in their premium gas in a
> specific gas station from 7/3 to 7/7, they send me an overnight letter
> with this information and promise to cover all expenses plus send me
> additional compensations.
>
> I purchase the fuel on 7/6 and been drive for the last two days
> without any problems.
>
> What should I do, just drive and look for hesitation symptoms, add
> additive to the gas tank or take it to the dealer for preventive
> maintenance.



Water sinks to the bottom of the tank, and gets sucked up first. If you were
going to have problems, you'd be having them by now.
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:30:58 -0700 (PDT), jack.judy.mor.RemoveThis@gmail.com
wrote:

>I was notified today the Costco had water in their premium gas in a
>specific gas station from 7/3 to 7/7, they send me an overnight letter
>with this information and promise to cover all expenses plus send me
>additional compensations.
>
>I purchase the fuel on 7/6 and been drive for the last two days
>without any problems.
>
>What should I do, just drive and look for hesitation symptoms, add
>additive to the gas tank or take it to the dealer for preventive
>maintenance.

It looks like you dodged a bullet on this one. You bought the gas on
the 6th and posted this on the 10th. You wouldn't be asking what to
do if you had been having a problem with your car, you'd already be
doing it.

Gas is less dense than water, meaning it floats. So any water in the
tank will sink to the bottom in just a few minutes after fuel is
added. The fuel pickup in the storage tank at the gas station will be
a few inches above the bottom of the tank for this reason. The tank
would have to have 50 to 100 gallons of water in it before the pickup
would draw any water unless they were filling the storage tank while
you were pumping gas into your car. A very good reason why you should
never buy gas if you see the tanker truck at the station.

Your car's gas pickup in your tank is an inch or so above the bottom
of the tank, again to avoid picking up water. You may have a pint or
so of water in your tank but it won't hurt anything.

Almost all gas sold today contains ethanol alcohol which will bind
with water and help to eliminate it from your fuel system. You can
purchase something like Dry-Gas and add it to your tank to help the
process but it really isn't necessary.

I'm surprised that Costco would notify you that they might have sold
gas that had water in it. Haven't they ever heard of lawyers and law
suits?

Jack
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On Jul 10, 12:30 pm, jack.judy.....TakeThisOut@gmail.com wrote:
> I was notified today the Costco had water in their premium gas in a
> specific gas station from 7/3 to 7/7, they send me an overnight letter
> with this information and promise to cover all expenses plus send me
> additional compensations.
>
> I purchase the fuel on 7/6 and been drive for the last two days
> without any problems.
>
> What should I do, just drive and look for hesitation symptoms, add
> additive to the gas tank or take it to the dealer for preventive
> maintenance.

Alcohol absorbes water,Heat in the yellow or red bottle is best. There
is some water in all gas using a few bottles of Heat is a good idea.
In Europe years ago we had to regularly put in 2 Litres of pure
alcohol just to kepp a 390 ford Tbird running, once the gas was so bad
it took 3 litres. Gas now is 10% alcohol and that alcohol has already
absorbed water. if you notice anything even getting a gallon of
denatured alcohol from the hardware store wont hurt anything, one or
two bottles of heat wont absorbe alot. Alcohol can absorbe about 10%
water by volume and let it burn. As your tank empties the air inside
can also condense out water from the air. If you had bad gas, you
would probably already see it running bad.
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I think it's ok if your car is not having any problems but if the car is acting weird, better take it to the mechanic and let them drain the fuel just to be safe
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