Turbo piston carnage
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Nasty Wendy
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So what was the final damage talley and the cause?
Backndagame
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The dealer told me and if you look it up on there website. they say 87octane. Just had the plugs done.
Backndagame
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Not on my 2013. Just looked. I was shocked When they told me that. So I looked it up. Showed 87. I had a trail blazer ss that we always put premium in. I had a wrx premium only. I even asked the sales manager. Do you see allot of them for rough idle at stop without a/c on.
No complaints on the rough idle. Think there is a TSB on cold rough idle. Another note, all the ones I've seen are oil burners, no misfire codes, three to four quarts in a thousand miles. They also look like hyper pistons, real thin ring lands. Phil.
Premium fuel recommended and premium fuel required are vastly different. I'm amazed that someone would buy a car where premium fuel was recommended and use anything but. Some dick beater trying to save $300 a year when they are likely paying thousands in interest and losing value as depreciation faster than anything. Usually the timing is trimmed so far back the performance drops off noticeably on the premium recommended cars. The Pistons and rings of today don't tolerate much detonation. The 86-87 LC2 is premium recommended but will run on 87 octane stock. 13-14psi and probably at a constant 3-4 degrees of knock retard. People.....
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2013 on the fuel door.
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Nasty Wendy
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Housewives generally aren't pushing the limits of the car either though.
I can't remember the last time my wife bought gas? Haha..
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In the late 80's my wife took my 86 GN and put gas in it . I found out later while accelerating up an on-ramp to the expressway my car fell on its face & stumbled . It hit me right away ....... She put in regular gas not premium . I went straight to an auto parts store and bought octane booster , problem solved , and I told her PREMIUM ONLY !! A Scanmaster would have been helpful back then !!
Nasty Wendy
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The Ecoboost engines seem to handle 87 well. I use 87 in my Ecoboost F150 but only when I'm not going to be towing. I have towed unplanned with 87 and it did well but if I can I'll put 93 in for real truck work. I haven't taken it down the track yet but that won't happen on 87 either.
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The ecoboost you can run 87 on but I believe they say 91-93 for the best performance. Different than saying premium required.
Pdzz, are warranty claims being denied if they ran 87? They should be...
Nope. How can you prove it? Hopefully, the campaign will take care of it. Phil.
I run 87 in my ecoboost virtually all the time, it performs perfectly fine. Even run it at the track at the last TB dot com Nat's in Burlington. Ran unbelievably consistent 9.2's, and I was able to take out both ecoboost F150s that day. And my 5100# ecoboost Lincoln is no light weight.
87 is just fine in the twin turbo ecoboost motors. Higher octanes are neither required nor recommended, although they do say that better performance could be achieved with higher octanes.
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