What does the car do when it detonates / pings? How does it react?
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What does the car do when it detonates / pings? How does it react?
When those two things occur what does the car do? Does it make a loud noise? Does it miss? Does white smoke come out of the exhaust? Can you detonate once / ping once and not mess up your engine? Thanks.. I 
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Re: What does the car do when it detonates / pings? How does it react? (ill logic)
i believe you will hear some punching sound......like something is popping inside the fuel tank. like a push of some sort. correct me if i am wrong.
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Re: What does the car do when it detonates / pings? How does it react? (ill logic)
Its a light knocking noise on heavy load acceleration that gets louder the heavier the load. Technically, it is not a miss since the cylinder fired. White smoke is coolant burning or water vapor and does not tie itself to ping unless you blew the headgasket. You can detonate a little bit and the engine will survive, its the incessant knocking that will do damage. I would recommend NEVER allowing detonation if you can avoid it.
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