Running on one rotor?
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Running on one rotor?
My 8 was in storage while I was deployed, come back, and it is WAY down on power and not running like normal, it's making some kind of sputtering/chugging noise at idle and spitting white smoke like it's been seafoam'd. So I sucked in some actual seafoam then changed the plugs and there's no effect. It's throwing constant P0300 and P0301 codes (random misfire and front rotor misfire) with occasional P0113 and P0171 codes. When I drove it around the block 6th gear could even hold it at speed. After the drive it would start again... it sounded like one rotor was firing and running then the other would drag it to a stop... Then this acrid white smoke started wafting from under the hood! I'm a little freaked out and at a loss for what to do. Please help!
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I seafoam'd it because I thought carbon buildup might be a culprit... I had a similar power loss symptom before (minus smoke) and the dealer told me it was "partial flooding," which I'm not sure is a real thing, but I thought seafoam might help with. It didn't.
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It probably has old gas, but do you really think that could have such a dramatic effect? Nothing was in the intake tract, I had to pull the air box as part of setting up seafoam.
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Nah, if it was only 6 months and you had stabil in it then that is probably not it. If you changed the plugs then my only other advice would be too clean the MAF. I don't see coils going bad just sitting but how many miles were on them when you parked it?
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