Dear all

I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to buy 4 star leaded petrol anywhere in the Algarve. I have a Renault 4 which needs it and it appears that near where I live you are unable to get it any more.

At the moment, I put unleaded in it and the petrol garages add some special additive to it. I was also wondering if it is possible to buy this additive in the shops?

Any help greatly appreciated!

L x

Hi Lizzie,

Last I saw, the Galp in Lagoa still sells the additive for the unleaded fuel, but I doubt there are any petrol stations that still supply the Super leaded.

cheers for that. Do you mean you can buy it by the bottle as opposed to having it put in the car with the petrol...if you see what I mean!

The bbq chef at 3 Jotas has a red R4 perhaps you could ask him. Big bloke with a bushy moustache.

lizzie wrote:cheers for that. Do you mean you can buy it by the bottle as opposed to having it put in the car with the petrol...if you see what I mean!

I am actually not sure how the additive thingy works, but they had those red "additivo" bottles on the shelf which I guess you have to fill in and top off with petrol so they mix(?)

I thought to myself I wonder if an R4 will run OK on unleaded. So I spent half an hour or so looking up on the subject and found a lot of people who ran r4's just fine on unleaded. Some had retarded the ignition because it pinked a little and some put additive in on 'fast' trips.
So rather than just saying 'Run it on unleaded' because I wasn't sure, I asked if you were sure that you couldn't run it on unleaded.
Still got deleted.
Entirely up to you obviously what you delete. Perhaps you would like to answer everything yourself. It hardly encourages members to make an effort to give a straight answer to a question if it is just going to get deleted by someone who quite possibly knows less about the subject than the person who supplied the answer

Both Castrol and Redex still sell the Lead Replacement additive you need.

Sorry about that Lizzie, some people get a little edgy sometimes, especially when they get filed in the same drawer as the silly people.

Here is some Q&A on lead additives http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/fuels.shtml

or you could just visit http://www.renault4.co.uk/ for all your R4 needs

Thanks for all your help! I had no idea there was so much to know about such an unassuming little car!

I will attempt to find additive...

L

Just use sem chumbo 98, it has the same octane content as the old Super but no lead. B1D

It's not the octane that is important, the lead might be

Just want to say thanks for all the help - managed to get my bottle of 'additivo' this morning from the GALP in Lagoa...whoever said thee forums were a waste of time...!

Lx