[Jake Raby]

Looks like we have a few more vendor haters in the forum.. Thats fine by me, I've learned how to use those stabs as positive energy for my program.

Anyway, this "promoter" says that nothing has been posted to date that proves this issue is anything more than a failed AOS. I believe the shop doing this work may not have the direct experience with enough of these cars not to go straight to the AOS as the culprit and then go from there.

At the tail end of last year we saved an engine for a person who posted on the forum with the exact same symptoms, he thought the engine was gone and he was ready to buy my reconstructed solution, but we saved his engine and he didn't have to..

Get several other opinions on this before you do ANYTHING other than change the AOS.

That said, no one has called me with these symptoms in several weeks, so I do not believe this person has reached out to us as of yet..