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Old 06-24-2019, 02:15 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by extrashaky View Post
So you guys who run E85, if you're on a trip and can't find it, or you show up at your favorite station and they're out of it, or you're just on the wrong end of town where they don't have it when you need to fuel up and have to use E10 instead, do you reflash your car back to E10 right there in the gas station?
I just fuel up with 93 and go when I don't have the option for ethanol. My flex fuel tune adapts on the fly so no reflash required.

EDIT: when I used to have my OFT, the process was put fuel in car, drive car down road, wait for fuel trims to drastically change, THEN reflash.
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