I used to work as an automotive design engineer (for Toyota & Hyundai-Kia). I worked side by side with engine engineers. These guys ate up engines doing testing and research like I eat up M&M's. I paid attention to their data and what they had to say (at least the Toyota guys, and just laughed and laughed and laughed at the Hyundai-Kia guys). I think that's "nuff said."
If I were planning to drive it for a while then dump it, I might not do anything to it. But I plan on keeping it for a while. It's a valuable tool. I like valuable tools. I'd like it to be making the maximum amount of compression possible when it reaches 100k miles.
On a side note, the car has 10k miles on it now. And I normally creepy crawl around trying to hit 45 mpg. But today, I got out of whack with where all I had to go and went to the wrong place first. Then I had to scurry back to the other place I had intended to go first in a hurry to get there on time. That little car zips along real nice, and the 3-Tapper sounds kind of cute doing it. 78 hp in this car gets the job done well. All I can say is, the engine seems to be good n healthy so far.
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View my fuel log 2020 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 42.4 mpg (US) ... 18.0 km/L ... 5.5 L/100 km ... 51.0 mpg (Imp)