Just a quick update.

The car had 133365 miles when I completed the deletes. Saturday I changed the oil at 134922. I have had exactly ZERO issues with the deletes and with DUDMD's tune. I did make another adjustment to the position of the exhaust pipe, as it seems to migrate closer to the transmissions mount due to vibration.

After putting almost 10k miles on it in the first month and a half that we owned it, I asked my wife to try driving less. I guess she listened. This thing is accumulating a lot fewer miles than before.

We will be driving it out to Charleston, SC this coming weekend. I expect that trip to put somewhere around 700 miles on the car. It will be the longest trip we've taken since the deletes, so I will monitor the fuel economy on that trip.


As I've told others, the only thing I'm not really blown away with the deletes is that I haven't seen any increase in fuel economy. When the CEL came on for the DPF ash load (pre-deletes obviously) the economy dipped down from about 26mpg with mixed driving to 25mpg with mixed driving. Since the deletes, we've done an average of 25.5mpg with mixed driving.

I'm curious to see what it does on a longer trip. The last short trip my wife went on she got about 27mpg.

I took it on a short trip right after doing the deletes, and due to hot-rodding and going 90+ most of the way, it returned about 25mpg.


I was hoping that 29-30 would be more readily achieved since we were getting up to 28.6 on highway previous to deletes. But I also haven't gotten the chance to duplicate that exact trip and actually compare apples to apples.

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