Got the crickets. Any other 17 MT's?

[Varelco]

Originally Posted by Borchert97

Are we really still bitching about this? No offense, but surely you all have figured out after 6 years that it's the fuel injection system, right?

Hell yeah we are, it's still just annoying as it was 6 years ago.

Say NO to crickets!

[PetrolioBenzina]

Originally Posted by Borchert97

Are we really still bitching about this? No offense, but surely you all have figured out after 6 years that it's the fuel injection system, right? I laugh on Mustang forums because they complain about a "ticking" noise in 18+ MY's and I'm like "welcome to the direct injection club boys, now you know how us back at ft86 feel". But seriously, the crickets are here to stay, it's a byproduct of the direct fuel injection, not a whole lot you can do about it. My advice? Make your car's idle as deep and loud as possible. Drowns out the crickets when your exhaust is highly illegal

There's a difference between "bitching" about and "discussing" a known problem. Being a flat-bill with a loud-ass exhaust is not a real solution.

[DaBoBo21]

'17 BRZ with occasional crickets.. Nothing like my '16, though. I just ignore it.

[Face_Plant]

Originally Posted by JD001

What's a 'squeaking accessory belt' when it's at home?

I'm not sure what you're asking?

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by BierMeister

Mostly from costco.

Originally Posted by COLETRICKLE

Costco 93 Octane

Try changing brands. Certain brands are almost guaranteed to wake my crickets. For me, the gas at Sam's Club does it every time.

Additionally, you can't go by what brands other people on this board use unless they live in your area. Gas blends are different around the country, and seasonal blends get switched out at different times depending on your local climate. I have good luck with Shell where I am now, but someone halfway across the country may get crickets from it because it's not the same gas I'm buying.

Originally Posted by DarkPira7e

Running non-ethanol gas silences mine.

It didn't help mine. Three different stations. If anything, it made the crickets worse.

[Guest]

I get crickets from time to time. Only run E85 and always fill up at the same Shell station. I think perhaps around the time they switch the seasonal blend is when I get them (August-October)

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Face_Plant

I'm not sure what you're asking?

Oh well, no worries.. I failed!!

[Face_Plant]

Originally Posted by JD001

Oh well, no worries.. I failed!!

I understood "what's a squeaking accessory" belt, but you post me with the "at home" part.

By "squeaking accessory belt" I mean the serpentine belt (or accessory belt or whatever you want to call it) that spins the water pump, alternator, etc. Usually it'll squeak if oil gets on it, the bearings for the tensioner/idler puleys are going bad, etc.

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Face_Plant

I understood "what's a squeaking accessory" belt, but you post me with the "at home" part.

By "squeaking accessory belt" I mean the serpentine belt (or accessory belt or whatever you want to call it) that spins the water pump, alternator, etc. Usually it'll squeak if oil gets on it, the bearings for the tensioner/idler puleys are going bad, etc.

This phrase is an intensifier used to communicate the fact that one knows nothing about a particular person or subject, (Haemoglobin? What in blazes is that when it's at home?), effecting a self-conscious cutesy ignorance that sometimes also carries a humorous irony, depending on context.

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And thanks for clearing up the 'belt' descriptor.

[rkaywhodat]

17 automatic, in Canada use UltraMar 91 no ethanol almost exclusively. No crickets at 44,000 km

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[Borchert97]

Originally Posted by PetrolioBenzina

There's a difference between "bitching" about and "discussing" a known problem. Being a flat-bill with a loud-ass exhaust is not a real solution.

Yes, but you see, there's little use in discussing a problem we already know everything about.

We know it's the fuel injection system, and we know there's not a whole lot you can do to fix it, although new fuel pumps and higher quality fuel tend to mediate the problem, temporarily.

In the end, it's just a quirk of direct injection, there's nothing bad about it, it does no harm, end of discussion. It's just an inconvenient noise, as some people see exhaust noise.

[BierMeister]

Originally Posted by PetrolioBenzina

Mine come and go entirely at random.

Same here. They were gone the next day. They might have caused by the small amount of fuel that was in my tank while it sat for a few days. Once I went through it the noise went away.

[PetrolioBenzina]

Originally Posted by Borchert97

It's just an inconvenient noise, as some people see exhaust noise.

Crickets, as you say, and as we all know, are a known feature of the pump that nobody really cares about and bothers nobody else. Your proudly illegal exhuast, however...

[Borchert97]

Originally Posted by PetrolioBenzina

Crickets, as you say, and as we all know, are a known feature of the pump that nobody really cares about and bothers nobody else. Your proudly illegal exhuast, however...

Oh please it was a sarcastic suggestion, a solution if you will, for people who are dead set on drowning out the crickets one way or another.

My exhaust is 100% legal, even in California, all I have is the factory option TRD catback sooo yeah