Like it says, I need Ethanol Free Fuel.

I purchased a $600 pressure washer from Home Depot and it says "Do Not Use Ethanol Fuel"!!! Well I did but I bought new fuel every time I used it (every other week) and ran it out of fuel each time it was filled up. Well 3 1/2 months later it stopped starting. I shipped it in for warranty and they said it was "Bad Gas".

After fighting with Home Depot for 2 months they gave me a new one. So now I want to find a source for Ethanol Free Fuel so they won't void my warranty. Home Depot sells a one gallon can of 4 stroke Ethanol Free Fuel for $19.98, and I refuse to pay that!

Help.......

Try a marina. They sometimes sell ethanol free fuel for boats.

go to

http://pure-gas.org

then select the state for all the listings.

I looked that up and there is nothing within 100+ miles.

I live on the water next to the marina but they don't have it.

Still looking.

Home Depot sell Pint Bottles of Non Ethanol! Expensive as hell to buy it that way though

Can't you get that at the airport? ( Like small local airports)

I think the 100 octane race gas in Sonol is Ethanol free. $10 per gallon though...

$10 a gallon is half the price of Home Depots $19.98 a gallon!!

Maybe I will try Byron Airport!! Good Idea!

I use products from Bell Performance in my 76 2.0, 88 300SEL and snowblower, with no problems. Not affiliated with them, just a customer.

Do not try the airport, 100 Low Lead will send you back to Home Depot in hopes of getting it fixed again under warranty. Your best bet is to ask your local lawn guys where they buy gas for their mowers and leaf blowers…

Or call Easy Fuel in San Jose and have them drop off a 55 gallon drum of the good stuff.

It would just be the fuel lines that would be the issue and there is only one of them.
Replace the fuel line with ethanol rated hose and get the fuel additive from any marine store. You would use a cap full per tank.

None of my power equipment has issues and we have only ethanol around here.

Ethanol eats rubber lines.
It creates more water in the tank.

A good fuel additive keeps the water issue from happening.

100 octane low lead. I've seen it as low as $4.50 gal and $8.00 gal depending on the airport. Palm Springs it was $8.01. Just one of the reasons I might sell the Bonanza next year.

ok, even more confused!

So in the Republic of California I can not buy gas for the pressure washer from a gas station. I now have to pay twice as much to purchase something the government demands we have in our gas, removed?? Why can't I purchase something that works with the gas that we sell? They are selling me a motor and double profiting off the $19.98/gal gas that is cheaper to make than the Ethanol stuff!

So, if I take the new unit and replace the fuel lines with ethanon rated lines and put an additive I should be fine?

What is the additive?

Every hose, diaphragm, every piece of synthetic rubber has to be ethanol rated.

According to the California Bureau of Auto Repair Contra Costa County is an enhanced smog area. If the local lawn guys can’t help you, you could have to go west to a non-smog enhanced county to buy non-ethanol gas for your pressure washer…

A $600 pressure is bad enough. The fact that it requires non ethanol fuel is ridiculous. Get the $200ish one from Costco that has the Honda engine.

I agree, why is that thing even being sold in California? It shouldn't be your responsibility to make it work, Home Depot should be selling products that can actually be used in the market where they're selling them. It would requre different rubber and plastics where there's contact with fuel, which would cost pennies, if anything.

If it's a standard single carb air cooled lawn mower engine the only rubber is the fuel line. I just replace those and use an additive.
My Honda powered Home Depot pressure washer is over ten years old and works fine.
We cannot buy any non ethanol fuel in Massachusetts.

I would bring the new one back for a full refund and shop around for one that is already built for ethanol.