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What does an engine re-tune consist of?
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| What does an engine re-tune consist of? You read the title... Help me out here. My next service is 4000kms away and I wanna ask them to do a bunch of stuff plus an engine tune-up. What would that consist of?
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On the older non injected car with points a tune up would mean a check of the engine timing and adjust if necessary, fuel mixture from the carb and again just a general check. Can't really think of anything else they could manuall change as that's the ECU's job to keep everything in check. 
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| Are you asking for an engine tune-up, or are they offering one? AFAIK, on newer cars there's very little you can tune up as it's all controlled by the ECU. Only thing I can think of is resetting the throttle bodies, but hey, I'm no mechanic!  They might also run some Redex or similar through the tank to clean out the engine..... Chris
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 * Doing this will seriously damage your engine.
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