Without specifically quoting anyone’s responses:
* I agree - so far the mileage I’ve gotten in my first tank of gas has been far better than I hoped... 404 miles and fill up was 9.4xx gallons
* I’ve been driving almost exclusively in Econ mode and trying to avoid engaging turbo
* as for maintenance, I’ll simply say that I care about cars and enjoying making them run as well as possible. In 3 years I can either buy or give back the car. If I keep it, I’d like to ensure a long life. If I give it back, I’d like the next owner to get as much life out of it as possible. I’m under no obligation to do any more than what the mm indicates but knowing this car could have “faults”, I can use the knowledge from BITOG and the other forums to make the best decision in caring for the car
* an earlier posting indicated this car has 10.3:1 compression. I don’t have a clue if that’s high compression or not and, per my signature, you can see I’m not buying high end cars and have absolutely no idea about turbos, compression, digital tuning.... or whatever it’s called. Not my thing. That said, I’m not discounting the need for this car to make use of a higher octane fuel and it’s not necessarily a question of money... more a question of Why...? Can anyone tell me why a higher octane fuel would help with fuel dilution?
* with regard to the turbo, I understand that a heftier oil should be used. Combined with fuel dilution, all the more so. Is using my jug of 0W-40 a bad thing? Again, I can easily run out and grab a jug of 5W-30 but I’m just wondering if the 0W-40 is tooooo thick? And what about the moly? Several threads indicated extra moly should be run for thousands of miles during “break in”.
Any thoughts?
Thank you
* I agree - so far the mileage I’ve gotten in my first tank of gas has been far better than I hoped... 404 miles and fill up was 9.4xx gallons
* I’ve been driving almost exclusively in Econ mode and trying to avoid engaging turbo
* as for maintenance, I’ll simply say that I care about cars and enjoying making them run as well as possible. In 3 years I can either buy or give back the car. If I keep it, I’d like to ensure a long life. If I give it back, I’d like the next owner to get as much life out of it as possible. I’m under no obligation to do any more than what the mm indicates but knowing this car could have “faults”, I can use the knowledge from BITOG and the other forums to make the best decision in caring for the car
* an earlier posting indicated this car has 10.3:1 compression. I don’t have a clue if that’s high compression or not and, per my signature, you can see I’m not buying high end cars and have absolutely no idea about turbos, compression, digital tuning.... or whatever it’s called. Not my thing. That said, I’m not discounting the need for this car to make use of a higher octane fuel and it’s not necessarily a question of money... more a question of Why...? Can anyone tell me why a higher octane fuel would help with fuel dilution?
* with regard to the turbo, I understand that a heftier oil should be used. Combined with fuel dilution, all the more so. Is using my jug of 0W-40 a bad thing? Again, I can easily run out and grab a jug of 5W-30 but I’m just wondering if the 0W-40 is tooooo thick? And what about the moly? Several threads indicated extra moly should be run for thousands of miles during “break in”.
Any thoughts?
Thank you
