[stuart bowes]

stale fuel is mentioned from time to time over on the mini forum but bear in mind of course some of those are 30-40-50-60 year old cars

and they do say, the old ones with simple breathers to the atmosphere (old carb models) suffer more than the 'sealed' mpi / spi models of more recent times

I guess it's about whether air and therefore moisture has got in, and then they go on about modern fuels being worse for moisture and so on

I'm sure if you turn up with VIDA under one arm and a fully charged battery you can't go too far wrong