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Your car is still running after turning off the ignition due to a phenomena called dieseling. The gasoline in the cylinders is igniting without a spark from the spark plugs. You are having carbon build up in the combustion chambers and it is raising your compression ratios. You need to go to a higher octane gasoline until the problem is fixed or fixes itself.

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