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Originally Posted by daveosborne
I've had no pings at 4800 miles, always using 87 octane.
My last little Corolla, and my wife's, needed premium or the engines would sound like a metal box full of loose nuts and bolts. We learned to avoid that quick!
Seems I heard of other earlier Toyota models acting the same way no matter what the mechanics tried. Sure is nice to have a big honking TCH running on regular! My wife's '06 Corolla likes regular gas just fine, too.
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Yes, our '93 Toyota pickup will ping like mad in the summer on anything less than premium. We, the dealer, and a top-rated independent Toyota shop tried everything in the world, but it just likes the expensive stuff.
It's still running great at 140,000 miles (we don't drive it much anymore), though, so whatever's "off" about it isn't fatal.