What is that photo of? Very nice

Ah, that’s it then, detonation due to lower octane, that’d be bad. That makes sense. Thank you.

I’m just confused as to how diesel contamination within the fuel can cause blow by to increase? Wouldn’t it just clog up the injectors a bit? How does it ruin an engine? I call shenanigans.

It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it.

Oh, and I thought you were going to go with the of you don’t do your job, we will motivate you with a stick, until we tire of it and replace you with another beat down drone of a worker... but I like the way you took the explaination a bit better.

I ran into a great dealership experience where the internet sales guy totally understood this exact issue. He gave me a good price over email, and that was the price. Simple as that. I arranged for a test drive and stopped out after work. Chatted with the salesman, took the car for a drive and thanked them for…

My ‘12 S4 was perfect for 85k miles, I sold it off at that point, but it was trouble free for that time. Not too bad really. That was truely a great sports car. Had to go bigger though. Got a bit tight for my sons in the back seat.

With it being composite and non rusting, probably no real need to line it.

Yeah, no warranty. How do you think I could afford such a beast ;)? I had to get in there to replace two shitty little o rings anyway, so I planned to do the decarboning as well. It helps, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I have only put 8000 miles on it since I got it, and I didn’t know how it was…

So much win with that one. Well Played.

Yeah, I wasn’t too surprised by the condition, but at 45k I was getting the misfire codes and I ran a course of treatment through the intake to clean it up a bit, and that took care of the misfires. It was also stumbling at lower rpms and just not running smooth in general, which I think shows in the conditions of…

Well. I have an older port injected V8 that gets 13-15 mpg and produces 250hp, and I have a newer tech DI v10 that gets nearer 17-19 mpg, but also produces 450hp, and I realize the tech is vastly different, but the differences in power and efficiency are good examples of how well the tech works

That makes more sense.

If I could’ve had mine done for $250, that’s a no brainer. All I’ve seen for quotes were nearer $1000. So I figured I’d give it a shot

Definitely. I allocated time and money to decarbon mine at 55k. And the V-10 is an extreme example of this service, as it takes a lot to get to the valves, and then you have 10 sets to service. But walnuts make short work of it once you get there.

I believe they do that for JD power or one of those. Hence why they switched to lifetime transmission fluids, or moved the intervals to outside of the 100k mark, because evidently that’s the cutoff for tracking those costs.

You’re cute. 100k miles for cleaning... ask an Audi guy what the interval for cleaning is, try less than 50k miles.

Some guy grabbed a barrel, seems easy enough for someone on the reporters crew to be able to do. They took the time to setup and get video, seems like they could’ve maybe at least made some effort, instead of sitting back and just filming. I mean, how many cars do you need for the friggin story? At least they…

Well at least the other guy grabbed a damn barrel. That seemed to be a decent solution that any able bodied person could have done after seeing a bunch of folks blow out tires. What a bunch of d-bags.

Maybe a flare then? No need to imperil the news van, but be a decent person and drop a damn flare in front of the crater.