Which fuel to be used in Skoda Fabia

I have decided upong a skoda fabia to buy but one thing keeps peeving me is that skoda fabia has asked to be filled with only unleaded/leaded petrol???

Is this true?

and if i were to pour normal petrol...what will happen?

Hi Aditi,

The performance of Petrol Fabia is optimised with high Octane fuel thile you can also use unleaded fuel.

Normal fuel is better avoided as per company's statement.

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but u havent answered what will happen if i were to use normal petrol?? what will happen....will the engine conk out?

I read somewhere in a thread wherein people who incidently used normal fuel were badly affected with the performance of the car. Ultimately they had to flush of the oil tank and then refill again.

A link of this thread is given here but it is a very long thread, though this topic was also discussed somewhere in between.

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/test-drives-initial-ownership-reports/36237-skoda-fabia-diesel-pics-pg-6-a.html

Can anyone explain the difference of unleaded and normal petrol? Today in all the petrol bunks we get only unleaded petrol.

There is no difference-all petrol sold in India is Unleaded, by law.

-the difference comes in the octane value(and additive) of the fuel-there are high octane fuel available as an alternative to ;normal' petrol.

and skoda needs which fuel? the high octane fuel?...and if i dont pour high octane petrol..what will happen to the engine? will it burn up? or explode?

Wow, Wow, Dont be in such a hurry to ask a question. Never will a engine explode. It does not contain exploding parts. At extreme situations it will stop to function.(Mechanical components dont explode). There is no problem with this high octane fuel. High Octane rating fuel is used only to avoid "Knocking" in a SI(Spark Ignition) engine. Racing cars use this fuel. You can go on using the Unleaded fuel available at all petrol bunks.

Dont get confused with leaded and high octane fuel. The are completely different.

Do a take a look at this discussion.

Leaded fuel has been discontinued from across the globe. And Aditi, itrs ok to use normal petrol in Fabia.

Cheers