The Cricket

[VuDism]

Got my fuel pump replaced at the dealer last week... 500 miles later crickets are back

[mike the snake]

Many people have reported that a tiny amount of 2 stroke oil helps get rid of the crickets.

Do a search here, there's a couple threads about this.

[madboom]

I had the pump replaced under warranty at my 15k service, and the chirps went away, but they returned after about 2000 miles. I'll have to learn to live with it or get a louder exhaust .

Originally Posted by JonAvalon

They will come back...........eventually.

Mine was replaced two months ago and after 2500 miles it returned, went away and then came back completely. Dealer said the same thing about it being different but thanks to the cricket thread i knew they would come back. It was nice while it lasted :P

[JonAvalon]

Originally Posted by madboom

I had the pump replaced under warranty at my 15k service, and the chirps went away, but they returned after about 2000 miles. I'll have to learn to live with it or get a louder exhaust .

Or get a supercharger and pretend it's related to it

[TB9]

Originally Posted by GotBRZ1691

I have a 2014 BRZ limited that I have owned for less than a month(1.7k miles) and It has crickets.

Sounds like a terrible disease or a STD... but for your car

I call it "The Cherpes". At what point should I harass my dealer for a new pump?

[VuDism]

Originally Posted by TB9

I call it "The Cherpes". At what point should I harass my dealer for a new pump?

It's not gonna fix anything. . my crickets came back writing 1000 miles of replacing

[GotBRZ1691]

Originally Posted by TB9

I call it "The Cherpes". At what point should I harass my dealer for a new pump?

Well Mine has actually stopped now, which is weird. I am not doing anything different, just have put another 6k miles on the car is all.

Has anyone else noticed that their crickets went away after driving the car for longer?

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by GotBRZ1691

Well Mine has actually stopped now, which is weird. I am not doing anything different, just have put another 6k miles on the car is all.

Has anyone else noticed that their crickets went away after driving the car for longer?

The gas blend being dispensed by the gas station you use has probably changed. Once summer is over and they change their blend again, they'll probably come back.

[Malt]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

The gas blend being dispensed by the gas station you use has probably changed. Once summer is over and they change their blend again, they'll probably come back.

I thought it was pretty much proven that ethanol has absolutely nothing to do with the crickets. Given the fact that people have no crickets running E85 and some still have them running pure gas pretty much confirms the fact that its something else other than gas formulation.

[GotBRZ1691]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

The gas blend being dispensed by the gas station you use has probably changed. Once summer is over and they change their blend again, they'll probably come back.

I live in california though, the weather does not change much between summer and winter, and I bought my car in May, give or take a month.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Malt

I thought it was pretty much proven that ethanol has absolutely nothing to do with the crickets.

It's not the ethanol that's causing the problem. There are other things in your fuel besides gasoline and ethanol. For example, during winter months in cooler locations, most blends include butane, which is a cheap filler that still keeps the octane rating up. They can't put butane in the gas in the summer, though, because it evaporates out in warmer temps.

They also put additives in the gas that are alleged to clean and protect your engine and fuel system. I'm convinced it's those additives that are contributing to the chirping problem. More than likely most of the E85 gas doesn't have those chemicals, which is why some people see their crickets disappear when they go over to E85.

Likewise, E0 is not top tier gas in the US, because to qualify as top tier gas it must have ethanol. So when you get ethanol-free gas, you're getting lower tier gas that also may not have all those fancy additives alleged to protect your engine. Without those additives, many people lose the crickets and think the lack of ethanol did it.

It would be great if we could isolate exactly what is being put into the gas that's causing the chirp, then find a way to counteract it. But there are about 2 dozen basic gas blends in use in the United States, not including all the variations in concentrations introduced at different refineries and different distribution centers around the country. The supply chain adjusts to demand and individual refinery output, so that a single station can't guarantee that the gas you buy this week is the same formulation as what you bought there last week. Whenever I see someone post that his crickets went away, I have to suspect that something changed in his regular station's supply chain to remove whatever was making the crickets happy.

[ChasingHP]

I had the crickets last September when purchased. At around 2,000 miles, I did a few mods with a CAI, headers, cat back and ECU-Tek/tune. Haven't heard a cricket since. Runs like a swiss watch with satisfying power.