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Old 07-17-2014, 03:51 PM   #27 (permalink)
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You admit you don't know, in which case there could be another reason (or reasons) why the problem occurred. It could have been bad gas - but bad gas is not specifically due to gas being three months old. In other words, it may have been bad for some other reason regardless of it being three months old.

As I said, I've had gas that is much older than that, and I still do, and it has never caused any problem. So you can't be certain that the conclusion you drew is the correct explanation.
I didn't know if it being winter blend gas made the difference. But being that the problem only happened after the gas had been in there for 3 months and not before it makes sense the issue was that it was old. In the long run it doesn't really matter to me as long as it doesn't happen again. I don't really care if the issue was old gas or a couple of fluke occurrences as long as it's fixed.
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