Been told by TerraClean on facebook...... Terraclean wrote: "Hi, exhaust gases travel through the turbo. TerraClean cleans in both liquid and gas form, hence it reaches so many places. Have a chat with your local operator."
be really interesting to get an honest
review from ibizacupra to see what he thinks when he gets his demo, if it were cheaper I'd have it done for the hell of it but at £110 where I live its a lot of money for people like myself who's on a limited budget
"Hi, exhaust gases travel through the turbo. TerraClean cleans in both liquid and gas form, hence it reaches so many places. Have a chat with your local operator."
the system demo'd was a fuel line/system cleaner not an intake cleaner...
there is in my mind a significant difference.
The demo I had went ok, one TFSi leon cupra and a TDi Arosa (both my cars)
TDi one, 110k miles on its little 1400TDi 3 cyl engine.
My cupra, 14k miles petrol FSi
The system connects to the fuel system under the engine bay "only".. so the cars respectively run on terraclean "fuel" not the cars fuel.
Direct injected engines dont spray fuel down the intakes to make this clear.. Be they TDi or TFSi. Claims for decarbonising the "intake" seem incredulous given none of the "cleaning fuel product" passes by the intake system at all. It does pass thru the rail and injectors, into the combustion chamber and exit out of the exhaust ports to turbo, downpipe etc... Its cleaning of these elements where coked and carboned up I can see as being possible. The cleaning claims of cleaning the intake system I do not.
There may well be other types of fuel system cleaner process than terraclean, but anything which is being added into the fuel only will be limited to the fuel system and combustion process. I do not see how it can clean an intake. From my obeservations of the TFSi leon which I did an inspection of afterwards, it looked the same coked condition.
I also did a dyno on the leon post treatment and although I saw a higher bhp figure, it was in the realms of measurement scatter and difference in temperatures the dyno's were done on. 345bhp-350bhp kind of comparison, but a 3-5bhp variance in runs depending how hot the motor was... so inconclusive.. No losses tho - lol
I think the terraclean has merit for fuel system decarbonising, but the additional claims of EGR cleaning, intake cleaning via this process I question... The fumes from byproduct of combustion being adequate to clean and strip carbon build up from the breather system alone??? Nah... I just dont see it or believe it.
As to whether you believe its for you or not or value etc..... The "payback" of having a clean on your motor is one of economy and smoothness.. Economy has a payback, smoothness is a nice to have. We are still running the cars around so economy I cant comment on as yet, but the claims are that improvements will be seen. I hope that to be true and look fwd to seeing these in due course.
