Does gasoline lose octane over time? (Tune related)
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Only God knows what customers actually do to their vehicles.
One day, I stopped in the office of a Subaru Service Manager. He had a new glass table with a STi engine for its base.
a young kid had his car towed in and made a warranty claim. He was just driving along at the speed limit and his engine seized up on the San Diego Freeway. He claimed it had hydro-locked during a light rain shower.
After Subaru of America tested the fuel, the owner admitted to pouring a QUART of nitromethane into a half tank of gasoline.
The Service Manager didn't say if the fuel was stale, fresh or Sta-bil'ed.
Years ago, either Cadillac or Lincoln experienced a wave of warranty claims for fried, worn out brakes. After examining countless rotors, pads and calipers, engineers could not replicate the problem. Finally, in desperation, factory engineers actually rode along with owners who had made the claims.
It turned out that all of then were over 70 years old and had a habit of left foot braking "because it was safer and quicker to use your left foot instead of moving the right foot over to the brake pedal."
All of them were resting their feet on the brake pedal.
The engineering solution was to decrease the size of the brake pedal and put more resistance/slack into it so using it as a foot rest didn't drag the brakes.
My point is you can't fix stupid. I
Consider yourself lucky they don't make diesel powered sleds. (Don't tell me there are such things!)
One day, I stopped in the office of a Subaru Service Manager. He had a new glass table with a STi engine for its base.
a young kid had his car towed in and made a warranty claim. He was just driving along at the speed limit and his engine seized up on the San Diego Freeway. He claimed it had hydro-locked during a light rain shower.
After Subaru of America tested the fuel, the owner admitted to pouring a QUART of nitromethane into a half tank of gasoline.
The Service Manager didn't say if the fuel was stale, fresh or Sta-bil'ed.
Years ago, either Cadillac or Lincoln experienced a wave of warranty claims for fried, worn out brakes. After examining countless rotors, pads and calipers, engineers could not replicate the problem. Finally, in desperation, factory engineers actually rode along with owners who had made the claims.
It turned out that all of then were over 70 years old and had a habit of left foot braking "because it was safer and quicker to use your left foot instead of moving the right foot over to the brake pedal."
All of them were resting their feet on the brake pedal.
The engineering solution was to decrease the size of the brake pedal and put more resistance/slack into it so using it as a foot rest didn't drag the brakes.
My point is you can't fix stupid. I
Consider yourself lucky they don't make diesel powered sleds. (Don't tell me there are such things!)
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 117
From: MN
Only God knows what customers actually do to their vehicles.
Their kids roll the watercraft right side up the wrong way. The resulting hydrolock carnage is impressive! The kids only tell dad that it just stopped running.
Consider yourself lucky they don't make diesel powered sleds. (Don't tell me there are such things!)
Their kids roll the watercraft right side up the wrong way. The resulting hydrolock carnage is impressive! The kids only tell dad that it just stopped running.
Consider yourself lucky they don't make diesel powered sleds. (Don't tell me there are such things!)
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