[Built4thrashing]

Wev'e had the New Grand Vitara now for a while and ive noticed that under heavy acceleration it pings.

Has anyone else experianced this in their New GV.

Ours is a 2.4ltr manual.

Cheers B4T

[felix]

What fuel are you using?

[joeblow]

ahhh.there is your problem..........MANUAL.

[Built4thrashing]

we are using the recomended ron 91 fuel. just standard unleadded.
i know being a manual it can ping if loaded up low in the rev range but the pinging is happening at about 3000rpm when accelerating hard.

Will wait till we put a tank of better fuel in it.And if it still happends then i'll make it suzuki's problem.


B4T

[felix]

We get alot of problems at work which we believe is associated to fuel quality. Pinging, engine warnings, sludging, power loss, hesitation etc etc. But we can't tell a customer to use premium because apparently our vehicles can use ethanol (SATAN) and 91RON. Premium fuel will 95% of the time fix the problem.

But, if it still does it with premium you may have another problem..

[JrZook]

Built4thrashing wrote:

we are using the recomended ron 91 fuel. just standard unleadded.
i know being a manual it can ping if loaded up low in the rev range but the pinging is happening at about 3000rpm when accelerating hard.

Will wait till we put a tank of better fuel in it.And if it still happends then i'll make it suzuki's problem.


B4T

Does it keep constantly pinging and a real short period @3k? I could understand a few slight 'pings' here and there but in this day and age continual pinging should be a thing of the past. Everything new out there should have a knock sensor which will retard the timing a fraction through the ecu when pinging is sensed.

Dan