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I've filled my car up 3 times since the fix, 2 at Shell and 1 at Chevron. Crickets seem to be staying away. Prior to the fix I filled up only at Shell. Guess i'll knock on wood and hope the issue doesn't return.
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Wrote that wrong... After the initial fill with Shell the crickets dissapeared a day or two after the chevron burned off.. After three fills, its still quiet... I'm thinking the different formulas out there trigger different properties in the pump which either cricket or dont.
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So I dropped my car off at 9am this morning with an appointment... they wont be done until noon tomorrow apparently. Now I can't complain about the service they have given me, the service people have been extremely friendly and helpful but I can't help wondering why the hell this TSB which is supposed to be taking 2.5 hours is now taking 8+ hours. Granted they are doing the GPS fix at the same time but this seems ridiculous. They offered me a free rental, but I have a pickup truck that I will drive instead so I declined. They drove me home and are going to pick me up tomorrow, they have been great about it but I'm kinda annoyed it's taking so long. I just hope it's taking a while because they are doing it right...not because they are wasting time.
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It takes a while, but they will return.
Been there... So a Subaru engineer came around today. I didn't get to talk to him. Apparently he took lots of videos, checked some numbers on the pump, took a fuel sample. They also okay'd another replacement pump for me (I suppose they want to examine the pump I have). No word about a super-secret revised fuel-pump. |
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Brought my car into the dealer for this TSB. Took 2 days to complete both the GPS TSB and the Fuel Pump TSB but the chirp is completely gone, hopefully it stays that way!
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I noticed the chirp after filling up with some cheap 93 octane. I filled up with Shell V-Power at half full and then ran two more tanks of Shell through and still had the chirps. I switched to Sunoco 93 octane at half full and have ran through another full tank of Sunoco and still had chirps.
I am now on to Valero 93 octane and filled up with about 1/4 of a tank of Sunoco left. I went out for a spirited drive last night and the crickets are still present. I'll try one or two more tanks of Valero again. If that doesn't resolve it then I'd have to say that the myth is busted. Not unless it has anything to do with octane rating, which would be a huge stretch. Does it look like there is a pattern with people from California reporting that changing brands resolves the issue? Maybe I could give another round stations a shot but this time with 91 octane. The Valero by me has TurboBlue on tap It is not of the unleaded kind though. |
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That the fuel pump will stop chirping when a specific refiner's fuel is used......
Are you glossing over a few posts here in this thread maybe? |
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Please also note that weather is colder now than when the crickets came out.. Changing gas formula plus colder weather may shut them up longer than hotter weather with 91 and ethanol..
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Temp has not played a role for me since the temp has been fairly consistent since my car first started to chirp. I have just over 1200 miles. Yes, formulas may have changed but ambient air temp does not seem to be a factor.
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Nope. 'Specific refiner' was never a viable theory, I don't know where you picked it up. In some states certain brands could be ethanol-free, but that does not guarantee that the same brand will be w/o ethanol even in neighboring states. In general even changing to fuel with ethanol won't produce the chirp right away (it takes a few tanks), so the fact that the chirp came up right after a tank of brand X - is a mere coincidence.
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Same here, colder weather doth not stop the chirp
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