Is running fuel with ethanol bad for your car?

It's not good for rubber components, dries them out quicker.

>>17272948
a few years ago on /b/ I say a picture of a dude sticking his dick in a chicken. now I regret not saving it.

It's ok you'll be fine
https://youtu.be/HuOs1yap8mU

>>17272948
Depends on the car. It can absolutely wreck older cars. My brother had to replace the carb in his built 70s camaro due to it, completely ate away and corroded the fuck out of it. It will also destroy carbs in outboard motors.

>>17272948
That is one sweet looking chicken.

>>17273088
Oh man. My friend's dad accidentally put ethanol fuel is his Porsche 930 turbo. He though he blew the motor, but once it got through the tank it was fine

>>17272948
Newer engines "should" be fine with ethanol since they "should" be designed to handle ethanol.
Older engines are not and wont like the stuff.

>>17273088
This.
It will also eat injector o-ring seals, fuel pumps, pressure regulators, etc etc etc.

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If it's as bad for the car as you guys make it sound, why is there E10 (max. 10% ethanol) in the EU? :(

not if you replace the fuel lines and fuel pump with ethanol-compatible versions

>>17274526

And how does it make difference ?

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No

>>17274969
>It will also eat injector o-ring seals
That would explain a few things. For months there's been a weird gas smell at my parents whenever I would visit, and then two weeks ago my dad went to drive to work in his jeep XJ and it barely ran, gas was pouring out of the engine bay.
Three injector seals and the fuel pressure regulator o-ring were so far gone it was spraying out like a garden hose with your finger over it.

>>17275137
There's 15% Ethanol in American fuel and E85, with 85% fuel is very common.

>>17275137
In the US we do it to subsidize corn farmers in pivotal electoral states. I don't know why the EU does it, because it's fucking moronic. The bullshit line from the industry is that it is better for the environment, but the environmental cost of growing corn and processing it screws that equation up. Plus it has less energy content, so it burns up faster. And then there's whatever the cost is of the premature wear that engines have from it.

>>17277233
>Plus it has less energy content, so it burns up faster
Do you realize we can't create oil?