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Old 06-24-2013, 08:42 AM   #8
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The best thing you can do is to make a point of planning one long trip in the car each month. And when you take it out for short trips after about 10 mins of driving shift only above 3k rpm and try to keep it above that mark when driving.
Being a Porsche newbie, and I've seen people writing about shifting past 3k rpm (or drive it like you stole it)... so what's the real reason behind this? to burn off carbon deposite?
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