[Sach_61]

Excuse my ignorance, I am just wondering I have a captur 2016, I have been using 95 or 98 since buying the car, with petrol prices going up so much, would it be okay to fill up with e10?

 

[dick riculous]

The continent uses E10, it should be ok , the downside is it could contain more water, it's more hydroscopic than E5. It's not good to store it or keep it in the tank for over 4 months , years of usage could crode the fuel pipes due to it's hydroscopic properties.

 

[IvorETower]

E10 has been used on mainland Europe for a few years and the UK took a while to phase it out. I can't believe that any car company would have developed engines in differnt specs for EU and UK, so I reckon it should be fine. As far as it "going off" after a while......... on 3 Feb my younger daughter's car was involved in an accident that took it off the road. I collected it from our chosen bodyshop at the end of last month after repairs (4 months almost to the day) and found it was about 3/4 full (with E10); it had got through a minor front-end rebuild, a service and MoT with no issues and it started and ran absolutely fine for me; I did filll it up with E5 super unleaded and I've subsequently done about 250 miles in it, and it's running as if it were new. This has given me a degree of confidence that E10 isn't as bad as many are making it out to be.

 

[twodogs]

E10 or 95 should be fine. You don't need 98. Hygroscopic can be good if the system is not overloaded with water. If you are concerned, try half a tank to start with. As @IvorETower says, E10 has been around for a while (although we are still on E5 in my corner of Portugal).