Premium Fuel?

[Blueboost]

My coupe has 30K on it with no pings or issues running 87 octane the entire time. (My fiance's car up until now. SHE ran 87.)

From what i've come up with in search, people state high test only. VQ35DE is high compression, is it known to pull timing with 87 test?

I'm having a hard time deciding now. 93 octane would be more expensive but I would gain a few MPG, so it should be about the same cost wise.

Discuss?

I posted a thread asking how to search altima coupe forums only, so I tried.
Modified by Blueboost at 2:09 PM 12/8/2009

[mrodrig2]

Nothing to discuss. Repeat your search. This topic has been posted all over the coupe forums, the Altima forums and the other model forums.

The consensus is that you should use the recommended gas unless you have a specific need, i.e. an actual reason and appropriate tune, to use any other octane.

[dangeris]

I've always put 93 or higher in my car? really,..what are you saving? and extra $2.00 or $3.00 Are you serious?.. You spend that buying a cup of starbucks coffee! You buy a 3.5 for the performance and you cheat yourself of the performance by putting cheap gas in it to save $$!

That has to be the most absurd thing I've heard all day.

You you do the same if you had a 350Z or GTR?..I think not my friend

[Blueboost]

It was my fiances car up until now, shes in the '10 CX-7 now. I winced when she was putting 87 in that the other day, too. (its a 2.3 turbo 4)

I told her she should run high test. I assumed correct that it would just pull timing. An extra $3.50 to run 93 is not an issue to me, and I would wager i'd get more miles out of a tank of 93 than I would 87 anyway.

Forgive me, I just realized the err in my ways as far as searching. Keep in mind there are no less than 3 "search buttons" at the top of the page, most forums they are on the right. This one, its the BIG BLINKING RED ONE on the left. lol

[Desire1314]

This one, its the BIG BLINKING RED ONE on the left. lol

And now i just figured that out lol. I never payed attention to that one, always figured it was just another false advertising spam.

[Blueboost]

Thats exactly what I thought Des

[DAAN.]

You you do the same if you had a 350Z or GTR?..I think not my friend

It is arguable, but this is a comparison between sport cars and family cars ... the latter that suddenly lost a pair of doors, so Nissan can have an instant product to compete with Honda's coupe

[Desire1314]

This kinda brings me to an example that happened to one of my friends Honda Pilot. In the owners manual it recommended 89 or something. But she was always using 91. It eventually started having problems starting up and all. So she then started using 89 and everything was working fine.

[kuhan]

I'd go with what the manual is recommended, which is Premium (91+).

There is a reason for it.