{"id":505181,"date":"2026-06-18T00:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505181\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:40:35","slug":"ethanol-swap-was-great-for-me-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505181\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethanol swap was great for me in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letters<\/p>\n

Reader is ‘chuffed to bits with the conversion’<\/p>\n

\n Switching to ethanol ‘saves me a great deal of money driving a 5.3-litre V8 vehicle’
\n olrat\/Shutterstock\n <\/p>\n

To the Editor,<\/p>\n

Regarding your\u00a0article on ethanol conversion in the May issue of <\/a>The Connexion<\/a>, I got a kit fitted to my car last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is a GMC Yukon from 2000, so it was right at the limit for possible conversion.<\/p>\n

I had some issues with cold-starting in mid-winter (but I live in the Alps). It took two or three key turns, whereas it would start first time with petrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I also had some issues with the contr\u00f4le technique<\/a> as their machines did not register the change in fuel. I was advised to run the car on E98 once in a while, which I have done.<\/p>\n

I did not use an official fitter as the person in Grenoble was very rude and wanted to charge me twice as much as other quotes I had received.<\/p>\n

On the whole, I am chuffed to bits with the conversion. As you can imagine, it saves me a great deal of money driving a 5.3-litre V8 vehicle!<\/p>\n

C.S., by email<\/p>\n

Have you used an ethanol conversion kit in France? Share your experience at letters@connexionfrance.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Letters Reader is ‘chuffed to bits with the conversion’ Switching to ethanol ‘saves me a great deal of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-505181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}