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  • It’d still probably be fine! First thing to go wrong is it picking up water, but that separates out in the bottom of the container, just don’t pour it in your car. If it was even older (like 2-3 years unstabilized) it’d start to smell bad (like thinner) and change colour a little (kinda yellowy). If you put that in your car, it’d miss occasionally unless you mixed it with some fresher gas like a bunch of people itt have suggested. More fresh stuff the worse it is. It’d dirty up your fuel system a little quicker too, but not enough to cause an immediate problem. The horror stories about old gas “gumming up” cars are from carburetor days and fuel aging in place in an open system, volatile bits evaporating away and remnants varnishing tiny holes in jets and slides closed

    Please note that “gas” can be a lot of things worldwide that might act differently, this is a Best Coast take and still has to consider ethanol vs non. Ethanol fuel picks up water much quicker than non, I pretty much only use it in my car and only if I’m going to go through the tank relatively soon