BTW, I have done this with all my cars in the past including the above mentioned 92 Civic SI as well as my 2007 Civic SI and and old Z/28. This really isn’t anything new. With total respect to the sensitivity to the readers, we used to call it giving the car an “Italian tune up”.

The throttle linkage on an old Ford winch truck I was driving fell off went going up a hill. I found the problem after coast back down the hill. Finding nothing in the truck to fix it I notice the barb wire fence, the wire tails used to wrap around the wire where way longer than usual. I used the fence strechers in the tool box get get control, then I undone the wrap cut off the length of wire I needed, put the fence back to to right. I then wrapped the wire around the balls that the OEM linkage used. Hack worked because the linkage operated under tension. Decades later the fence is working as constructed

Fast forward 57,000 miles. Same problem persists and is reported to dealer via phone several times. The check engine light comes on. Dealer says the code means an #3 cylinder misfire. They say the fuel injectors are clogged and charge $1,300 to replace all four injectors. Honda of America throws in $1,000 of goodwill money because fuel injectors are not covered by the 60,000 mile powertrain warranty.

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“Making our customers comfortable is vastly more important than making sure we’re following additional government processes right now,” he said. Kia sent letters to dealers around Jan. 10 notifying them of the recall, he said.

Asked about Toyota’s China ambitions, a company spokesman said China was an important market and the automaker was looking at strengthening its base there so that it could propel the business forward.

the irony… It’s easy to say there’s plenty of ways to meet CAFE without spending a fortune but then reality comes in an slaps your stupid goals around to remind you what really rules

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My, how this issue has changed since our first(?) discussion back in 2012: what was once a measured discussion of the merits/pitfalls of de-carboning an engine is now a second nature, knee-jerk diagnosis (that’s likely accurate).

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