newby - reliability

[Grizzly]

I guess everyone has diffrent opinions, My opinion (that of someone that was low on cash and had to use his fd as an Every day car for 6-8 months doing two trips a day under 6 miles each way) was the biggest thing i did wrong was not open it up every so often, i was more concerned with how much it was costing me to get to work (as it was costing me allot more than an a runabout) Simply FD\'s do not like long periods of low revs off Boost driving, they do loose performance and my MPG (because i was watching it closely) dropped, I also found it killed plugs like they where going out of Fashion.

I would suggest if you are going to do lots of short journeys buy a cheap runabout to go to work in.

[Grizzly]

I\'ve always thought as above that short journeys and starting and stopping are bad news for any engine.

In one. Now Imagen a car that runs REALLY!! rich to the degree you can actually flood the car if you don\'t turn it off correctly!! not with that sort of fuel about do you think there is not going to be things like Bore wash or carbon build up going on if its not properly cleared.