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Old 06-09-2008, 07:46 PM
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lucas synthetic oil additive. I also just seafoamed the vac lines. Any ideas?
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Old 06-09-2008, 07:51 PM
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Default A6 3.0qs are gas hogs in the city....that's about it.
run 93 if you can.
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its not a quattro and i do run 93. I was getting 20-24 before. I dont know what happend.
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it's a 3.0 front track?....and to think you wanted to put an rs6 exhaust on that....8^)
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dammit dont judge me
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Why would you add the Lucas? Did I miss a TSB?
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where are u located is it hot? Mine went down 'cause it's got hot and AC is running
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Default are there any cases where MAF throws errors b/c the weather got too hot?
maybe my MAF has in fact gone bad, but it CEL has been coming in and out when summer came. OBDII reading shows that 'The ECM has detected a rich or lean air/fuel ration condition on engine bank one & two'.
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no just to see how much better it would run
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