Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Yes, more crud builds up that driving hard/long (more heat) clears out. So both good long highway drives and some hard acceleration both help with various things (crud buildup on valves, fuel accumulation in oil - this dilution happens particularly on cars used only for short trips - etc).
Direct injection adds a unique problem in that intake valves build up carbon since there is no fuel to clean it off - a car that is driven hard more often will have less of an issue though eventually the valves will still need cleaned, while such a car that is babied will have buildup at much lower miles.
Edit: And yeah I looked the "ride" up - that's why I said it doesn't sound enjoyable, not just from context of your quip, which was pretty funny even just with the context. It sounds not just horribly boring, but actually irritating in its fake woke hippie messaging.