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Old 05-09-2015, 12:32 PM   #56
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf View Post
Why do 99% of these catastrophic engine failures come from 2013 twins? Is it because there are more higher mileage specimens or is it something else?
I wonder if it's related to the AVCS issues these cars had early on. The re-flash made the ECU less prone to throwing a code due to cam timing issues, but that's really just masking an underlying hardware issue. If you notice, there were some tuners who reported losing control over cam timing/AVCS intermittently on some cars.

Perhaps there was a quality control issue that got fixed on the assembly line (or on the supply-side) after 2013.
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