Carbon cleaning
- Thread starter MiTz
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I'd think that the only engine cleaning method you want to get done is blasting the inlet port area with crushed walnut shells - is that what your friend had done to his diesel?
No he hasn't had it done yet, has it booked for end of March. This is the company
http://www.enginecarbonclean.com/
That's who I used and the guy that did mine was brilliant.
There are different `carbon cleaners` on the market. Some use cheap kit, some use nasty chemicals, some do not. You need to pick a good one.
You also get a diagnostic of your car, fault code read outs etc. Very thorough and professional.
I was very pleased and the clean did make the car more responsive and a bit smoother (95,000 miles).
Nice one, sounds good. I'll report back when I've had it done, will see if there's any improvement at all.
Cheers
My car is a 15 plate Leon 1.4 TSI with 70k. My mates is a 15 plate Hyundai i30 1.6 diesel with 90k
Mine's not running badly, but just has a few off days here and there. My mates is driving like crap though, even after a main dealer service, so possibly a blocked dpf or something.
Ok cool. No idea whether it makes a bigger/better difference with petrol or diesel. Generally, if you're under say 50k, you won't notice much difference. When the car has more miles on it you tend to notice more of a benefit.
They are good at checking everything else, so if he has an issue, hopefully they'll pick up on it.
Let us know how you get on.
I spoke to a garage that can do that and they say they aren't as keen on it these days. They said that the blasting damages the surface of the parts and you get much quicker build up afterwards. They said the best way is to take everything apart and clean the bits by hand.
Yeh £99 per car and I believe they offer a discount for multiple cars in the same booking.
I think this process will be one of the safest for the components. Well I'm gonna try it anyway, hopefully i get positive results.
Ohhh God. So they DO mean that you have to disassemble a whole intake, head and valves to do a proper job, don't they? I don't think micro walnuts will damage heat-treated surfaces. Prefer to go with the blasting...
Regards
I don't know, I didn't ask. My car's on 40K just now so I don't think I'm needing to do it. I can give you the phone number of the company any you can ask them if you like? They're up here in Scotland but their opinion might be helpful?
Or better yet, not feed crankcase crap into the intake at all. I remember when cars started doing that, about 93 maybe? Caused issues back then too. I reckon you could bodge together a pipe to dump the gas outside in a way that wouldn't be spotted my an MOT tester. I think you'd still get carbon on the valves but nowhere near as much as you do with crap being fed into the intake.
Using an oil catch can will be effective, but you will have to empty the reservoir every 1500-2000 km. And get rid of the residu.
Also, if you find that very little is being collected in the catch tank - then is it really doing its job well enough to stop the build up of nasty stuff behind the inlet valve heads?
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