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Originally Posted by HunterGreene
You may be right, or they didn't test the cars for more than 2-300 miles. Some people weren't getting the chirp until they got closer to 1000 miles.
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You realize the miles driven has more to do with fill ups cycling fuel through the pump than actual miles traveled right? Some appear on the first tank of different gas, some on the second, third, or twentieth.
It might have more to do with using a consistent blend than anything else for all we know, for instance the one time I tried Shell V-Power every third post talks about was my loudest tank, switched back to the cheapest station around (Arco) and it got quieter.
Anyway, they typically run cars in high heat actual scenarios to test for failures, that means at least 10,000 miles and on cars designed for reliability likely 100,000 miles (time permitting), I would bet another five bucks that there's a Toyobaru test mule in America right now with well over 60,000 miles on it.