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Originally Posted by beepbeep View Post
I heard that as well. This one comes with indication that those have been worked on at the dealer so they are hopefully new. Oil intervals are rather horrible, something like 2000 miles with "top up" in-between. I am planning to change every 7000 miles.

I heard that sticky cam phasing actuators can be "shocked" loose by applying 12V to them briefly...
They can be, a drill battery works pretty well, a small 9v doesn't usually have quite the amperage. You can feel them moving and it's very obvious when they get unstuck. It just gets old doing it a couple times a week to keep it idling properly, that's why not letting it get to that point is important.
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