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Just barreling along Needs to Get Out More!
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Graham, your MINI should be okay
I think from about '04 onwards modern fuel systems had to be ethanol resistant, and BMW are usually ahead of things on compliance
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The French originated the meter in the 1790s as one/ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole along a meridian through Paris. It is realistically represented by the distance between two marks on an iron bar kept in Paris. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures, created in 1875, upgraded the bar to one made of 90 percent platinum/10 percent iridium alloy.
In 1960 the meter was redefined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of orange-red light, in a vacuum, produced by burning the element krypton (Kr-86). More recently (1984), the Geneva Conference on Weights and Measures has defined the meter as the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 seconds with time measured by a cesium-133 atomic clock which emits pulses of radiation at very rapid, regular intervals.
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But what is a metre (meter) in Welsh?
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But what is a metre (meter) in Welsh? About 3 steps!
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Graham, your MINI should be okay
I think from about '04 onwards modern fuel systems had to be ethanol resistant, and BMW are usually ahead of things on compliance Cheers Jon. I think Adrian (AJSki2fly) had problems with an early MINI on ethanol, but I don't know how old the car was...
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Just barreling along Needs to Get Out More!
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Graham, your MINI should be okay
I think from about '04 onwards modern fuel systems had to be ethanol resistant, and BMW are usually ahead of things on compliance Cheers Jon. I think Adrian (AJSki2fly) had problems with an early MINI on ethanol, but I don't know how old the car was... My 52 year old proper Mini has had all flexis, gaskets, pump & lots of carb bits done 'just in case' and I also use a fuel additive but that's more to slow down valve seat damage as a lead replacement
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Ethanol in fuel has completely destroyed millions of dollars in boats. I hate it with a passion.
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