Advance Auto Parts? They told me a similar story, but it was gas
mileage and emissions that would suffer, not the pistons and cat.
The computer will figure it out. With the number of people running a
180T on the list here, any serious problems would have been discovered
by now.
Looper wrote:
>
> I saw this statement about using the 180T.
> Does this sound correct?
>
> "Do you know that messing with the thermostat
> increases the amount of fuel delivered to the
> cylinders, which doesn't completely burn. In turn,
> the O2 sensor tells the computer to lean out the
> mixture, and then before you know it you've lean
> burned a hole in a piston, not to mention burning out
> the catalytic converter"
>
> I my be wrong on this but:
> If the mixture is normal/correct and you change to a
> 180T then its runs rich which causes the computer to
> lean it back out aren't you back too the
> normal/correct
> mixture.
>
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