redranger04g

While I respect someone's right to do what they want with their own vehicle, being how much these things costs, this is not welcomed advice on this site. We've seen the other side of this, where a good guy (or gal) buys a used or certified pre-owned truck and has countless problems with it, where there was obvious abuse by the previous owner.

RangoWA

Yep. Screwing people is some rather **** poor advice. Sorry to see it here.

Stone629

Shop called and said it's covered. All they did was change the plugs and blamed it on 93 octane, which makes zero sense and is why I hate messing with dealerships. So I brought up the oil inside the intercooler and he said to give him 20-30 minutes to check into it...

They called back and said some oil was normal the way the PCV and all is plumbed, long as its not a quart of oil or anything crazy. So there you have it.

redranger04g

Well glad it wasn't anything bigger. Are you going to run it without the tune for a while to see if all the symptoms are gone?

Stone629

Yea going to run the stock tuning daily. Only time I'll ever use the hotter tunes will be for a pass here and there. I may have got a hold of some bad gas, which is always a risk when running aftermarket tuning. That's just a guess. On the other hand It could've been nothing more than the tune itself. If it does it again on the stock tuning I'll report it back to y'all.

MNSportsman

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Were you running the 87 performance tune when his happened? Did you talk to Livernois about what happened? How did the dealer arrive at 93 octane being the issue, did you tell them you were running higher octane gas? None of this is really making sense to me.
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digitaltrucker

Me beginning to think something hotter than premium got ran in this truck, is this possible? You sure sound disappointed, while most would be relieved??? Just asking.

Stone629

No I'm very relieved! It just doesn't make sense for them to tell me to run 87 and not 93 considering 87 burns hotter. It's also strange that the pcm didn't catch it.

Stone629

Yes, I was running the 87 tune towing a 1500lb boat plus gear when it started pinging running uphill. Got back home, was completely out of gas, filled back up with 93 (supposed to be 93) loaded the 93 tune, then made a 0-100mph pull. When it hit 100mph it gave several way louder pings and briefly went into limp mode. Did fine after that and driving to work all week until this past Saturday when it started bucking. Pulled a plug..you know the rest.

NO idea where the dealer is getting this 93 octane theory. Makes zero sense....unless that was code for don't run a tune on this thing anymore lol

RLXXI

Figured they would take care of it, I swear all the doom and gloom people just wanting to create drama because they don't have enough of it in their lives OMG he's tuned, the sky is falling the earth will rotate backwards and the dealer will void your warranty blah blah blah.

Glad it went well, seems there might be something to the catch can thing a lot of people talk about in the forum, I'd look into it seeing how your truck might benefit from it, it collects excess pcv gasses.
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