I usually buy from Amoco or CENEX. Since I am buying diesel it's a different ballgame but CENEX and Amoco premium diesels are some of the best.
Originally posted by gdub520:
i think pemex in meh-he-co is is pretty scary but i never minded putting it in the rental cars when down there
here in cali just about any independent station is a test of your cars fuel system
one station killed my fuel pump with the crud filled gas
There's 4 grades of Pemex fuel: Nova, Magna Sin, Premium and Diesel.
Nova used to be the leaded fuel. Pemex phased out leaded fuel along with everyone else, but kept the Nova name. Nova is the rotgut crap that Mexican gasoline is famous for. Low octane (as low as 80) and quite poor in quality. It's cheap and sells well to the poor and people with barely running cars.
Magna Sin is equivalent to regular unleaded in the US. It's usually pretty good stuff, I've fueled with it before.
Premium is just that, 93 octane premium. It's on a par with most "X" brand premium fuels in the US.
Pemex diesel, however, is far cleaner than the diesel sold in the US or Canada. Low sulfur and high cetane, it's actually superior to the premium diesel sold at most venders in the US, and at a lower cost than diesel in the US.
