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Old 05-10-2015, 04:12 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by DarkSunrise View Post
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.
That's exactly what I'm beginning to think...

Anecdotally, it seems like just about every blown motor I see is from a 2013...

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