Yesterday we went to San Cristobal to the agro-veterinaria to buy some salves and food for the dogs. Mr. AE parked outside, in a lot attached to an Isla gas station, I stayed in the car.
As I sat there, my eyes were drawn to the pricing sign: sin plomo, 250+ and regular, 235+. With nothing else to think about, my brain kicked into gear, and I wanted to know why only one said 'sin plomo'. In the US, ALL the gas is 'sin plomo', and we've been putting 'regular' gas into our Venza the past month, as we did in NJ.
Mr. AE returns, and I ask him about it, and he assumes it's like the US. We're below a half a tank, so we decide to pull up to a pump, and Mr. AE asks the attendant which gas is unleaded. He tells us "premium". Mr. AE specifically asks about the regular, and is told it has lead. We filled the tank with premium.
A couple of questions to you knowledgable car guys out there in DR-land.
1. Is this true - does DR regular gas have lead in it?
2. If it does, could we have done damage to our car by using it?
3. We've probably gone through 3-4 full tanks of gas, at this point, should we put some sort of additive into the tank? Almost half the gas currently in the tank is presumably leaded.
4. Am I worrying about nothing?
He had noticed the car was running 'different'. We had an oil change a few days ago, with Mobil 1, and he noticed it ran better afterwards.
As I sat there, my eyes were drawn to the pricing sign: sin plomo, 250+ and regular, 235+. With nothing else to think about, my brain kicked into gear, and I wanted to know why only one said 'sin plomo'. In the US, ALL the gas is 'sin plomo', and we've been putting 'regular' gas into our Venza the past month, as we did in NJ.
Mr. AE returns, and I ask him about it, and he assumes it's like the US. We're below a half a tank, so we decide to pull up to a pump, and Mr. AE asks the attendant which gas is unleaded. He tells us "premium". Mr. AE specifically asks about the regular, and is told it has lead. We filled the tank with premium.
A couple of questions to you knowledgable car guys out there in DR-land.
1. Is this true - does DR regular gas have lead in it?
2. If it does, could we have done damage to our car by using it?
3. We've probably gone through 3-4 full tanks of gas, at this point, should we put some sort of additive into the tank? Almost half the gas currently in the tank is presumably leaded.
4. Am I worrying about nothing?
He had noticed the car was running 'different'. We had an oil change a few days ago, with Mobil 1, and he noticed it ran better afterwards.
