Has anyone used Redex recently? Any good??

Has anyone used Redex recently? Any good??

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B'stard Child

28,320 posts

245 months

Sunday 8th February 2015
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colski777 said:
Hi i am new here, and i used redex a few years back because the car i had failed on emissions, i gave it a good run after pouring in the redex,took the car back and it passed so yeah i would say it does what it is suppose to. Hope this helps.
Did you try a good run without adding redex first because chances are it would have had the same result - its called an italian tune up......

Mopar440

410 posts

111 months

Sunday 8th February 2015
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B'stard Child said:
Did you try a good run without adding redex first because chances are it would have had the same result - its called an italian tune up......
Ha ha! Taking the car for a good run, is not an Italian tune up.

B'stard Child

28,320 posts

245 months

Sunday 8th February 2015
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Mopar440 said:
Ha ha! Taking the car for a good run, is not an Italian tune up.
Depends on how it's driven - poster didn't say

colski777

13 posts

109 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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Hehe i know what your saying, just put half a bottle in a full tank on my ford fiesta 1.2 vtec 1998, and i took it for a good run today and noticed on the way back the needle on the temp gauge was not going up half as much as it use to normally it would go between the N and the O on the normal word. but it hardly budged. Why is this i wonder ?.

Defcon5

6,159 posts

190 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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colski777 said:
Hehe i know what your saying, just put half a bottle in a full tank on my ford fiesta 1.2 vtec 1998, and i took it for a good run today and noticed on the way back the needle on the temp gauge was not going up half as much as it use to normally it would go between the N and the O on the normal word. but it hardly budged. Why is this i wonder ?.
Tell me more about this 1998 1.2 Fiesta VTEC

Tunku

7,703 posts

227 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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What's with all the thread archaeology at the moment? It's like the resurrection in here.

vikingaero

10,256 posts

168 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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Read this thread on Sunday morning and later on when cleaning the Clubman on Sunday I spied a half used bottle of Redex in the garage bought years ago. The Clubman has a propensity to coke up its head so I figured chucking the recommended 1/4 of a bottle into the fuel tank might do something or nothing.

First impressions on driving it on Monday morning was that the engine seemed smoother and revved more cleanly. Now Tuesday evening I can't really tell any difference. biggrin

colski777

13 posts

109 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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Defcon5 said:
Tell me more about this 1998 1.2 Fiesta VTEC
I can tell your intrigued Defcon so here goes. It is due a m o t in april, it has only 63k on clock shabby body and a right big dint in the boot door, but the engine is good so i knew it was worth parting with 500 quid for it. Runs well starts up everytime, and i have just had the front brakes done and both cv boots done too. I have just fitted a new filter to it for 3 quid, and after the m o t i am doing a oil and filter change, going to fit a bosch filter 5 quid and buying 5ltr fully synthetic oil 5w 30 for 20 quid eurocarparts is the cheapest i have come across. I have had it nearly a year as i bought it with nearly full mot and tax runs out end of this month so a few quid to spend but worth it, going to give it another year of running then maybe save some money up and buy a toyota or golf, as i get bored easy, just a cheap run about, i have had my fair share of fast cars and pimped a citreon vts up and the mosfet amp i fitted in it along with a kenwood single cd changer and 6 by nine sony speakers, it sounded mint but that was a long time ago when lou bega was singing a little bit of mary all night long lol.

colski777

13 posts

109 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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B'stard Child said:
Did you try a good run without adding redex first because chances are it would have had the same result - its called an italian tune up......
Didn't know much about cars then bud but it did the trick, so was happy but yeah probably a good run would of cleared it.

Jazoli

9,086 posts

249 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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colski777 said:
I can tell your intrigued Defcon so here goes. It is due a m o t in april, it has only 63k on clock shabby body and a right big dint in the boot door, but the engine is good so i knew it was worth parting with 500 quid for it. Runs well starts up everytime, and i have just had the front brakes done and both cv boots done too. I have just fitted a new filter to it for 3 quid, and after the m o t i am doing a oil and filter change, going to fit a bosch filter 5 quid and buying 5ltr fully synthetic oil 5w 30 for 20 quid eurocarparts is the cheapest i have come across. I have had it nearly a year as i bought it with nearly full mot and tax runs out end of this month so a few quid to spend but worth it, going to give it another year of running then maybe save some money up and buy a toyota or golf, as i get bored easy, just a cheap run about, i have had my fair share of fast cars and pimped a citreon vts up and the mosfet amp i fitted in it along with a kenwood single cd changer and 6 by nine sony speakers, it sounded mint but that was a long time ago when lou bega was singing a little bit of mary all night long lol.
Ahem there is no such thing as a Fiesta VTEC, its a 1.25 Zetec engine, designed by Yamaha and Mazda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Zetec_engine

The Turbonator

2,792 posts

150 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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colski777 said:
Defcon5 said:
Tell me more about this 1998 1.2 Fiesta VTEC
I can tell your intrigued Defcon so here goes. It is due a m o t in april, it has only 63k on clock shabby body and a right big dint in the boot door, but the engine is good so i knew it was worth parting with 500 quid for it. Runs well starts up everytime, and i have just had the front brakes done and both cv boots done too. I have just fitted a new filter to it for 3 quid, and after the m o t i am doing a oil and filter change, going to fit a bosch filter 5 quid and buying 5ltr fully synthetic oil 5w 30 for 20 quid eurocarparts is the cheapest i have come across. I have had it nearly a year as i bought it with nearly full mot and tax runs out end of this month so a few quid to spend but worth it, going to give it another year of running then maybe save some money up and buy a toyota or golf, as i get bored easy, just a cheap run about, i have had my fair share of fast cars and pimped a citreon vts up and the mosfet amp i fitted in it along with a kenwood single cd changer and 6 by nine sony speakers, it sounded mint but that was a long time ago when lou bega was singing a little bit of mary all night long lol.

Who me ?

7,455 posts

211 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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IF stuff like REDEX etc are so good, WHY then do VAG specifically add a line in both Petrol/Diesel fuel sections of a handbook "DO NOT USE FUEL ADDITIVES OR IN CASE OF DIESEL VEHICLES, FLOW IMPROVER". This is in the PETROL/DIESEL units used in Polo/Fabia /Seat models.
Going back to the last two Vauxhalls I owned,one was a MK2 1600 ,with a carb, the other a later mark of J prefix, both running on 95 fuel with the ign switch set to 95. The 1600 would have benefited from some sort of in use engine cleaner, as when I had head off ,the valves were coked up, whilst when I had the head off the 2.0L injection model, the pistons and valves were clean at well over 120k miles. Interestingly enough, I gave a mate a hand to change head gasket on an SRI MK2 and that was cleaner than clean.

Leptons

5,113 posts

175 months

Tuesday 10th February 2015
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colski777 said:
I can tell your intrigued Defcon so here goes. It is due a m o t in april, it has only 63k on clock shabby body and a right big dint in the boot door, but the engine is good so i knew it was worth parting with 500 quid for it. Runs well starts up everytime, and i have just had the front brakes done and both cv boots done too. I have just fitted a new filter to it for 3 quid, and after the m o t i am doing a oil and filter change, going to fit a bosch filter 5 quid and buying 5ltr fully synthetic oil 5w 30 for 20 quid eurocarparts is the cheapest i have come across. I have had it nearly a year as i bought it with nearly full mot and tax runs out end of this month so a few quid to spend but worth it, going to give it another year of running then maybe save some money up and buy a toyota or golf, as i get bored easy, just a cheap run about, i have had my fair share of fast cars and pimped a citreon vts up and the mosfet amp i fitted in it along with a kenwood single cd changer and 6 by nine sony speakers, it sounded mint but that was a long time ago when lou bega was singing a little bit of mary all night long lol.
You'll do well here. Welcome!

M6L11

1,222 posts

125 months

Wednesday 11th February 2015
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rofl

S0 What

3,358 posts

171 months

Wednesday 11th February 2015
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colski777 said:
I can tell your intrigued Defcon so here goes. It is due a m o t in april, it has only 63k on clock shabby body and a right big dint in the boot door, but the engine is good so i knew it was worth parting with 500 quid for it. Runs well starts up everytime, and i have just had the front brakes done and both cv boots done too. I have just fitted a new filter to it for 3 quid, and after the m o t i am doing a oil and filter change, going to fit a bosch filter 5 quid and buying 5ltr fully synthetic oil 5w 30 for 20 quid eurocarparts is the cheapest i have come across. I have had it nearly a year as i bought it with nearly full mot and tax runs out end of this month so a few quid to spend but worth it, going to give it another year of running then maybe save some money up and buy a toyota or golf, as i get bored easy, just a cheap run about, i have had my fair share of fast cars and pimped a citreon vts up and the mosfet amp i fitted in it along with a kenwood single cd changer and 6 by nine sony speakers, it sounded mint but that was a long time ago when lou bega was singing a little bit of mary all night long lol.
Hooray a new cockwomble to post BS for us, is it half term already ?

Edited by S0 What on Wednesday 11th February 11:45

colski777

13 posts

109 months

Wednesday 11th February 2015
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S0 What said:
Hooray a new cockwomble to post BS for us, is it half term already ?

Edited by S0 What on Wednesday 11th February 11:45
I am glad i am not at the age where laughing too much makes you piss your pants. Cockwomble i love it, that is my new saying now cheers Icon.

colski777

13 posts

109 months

Wednesday 11th February 2015
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Jazoli said:
Ahem there is no such thing as a Fiesta VTEC, its a 1.25 Zetec engine, designed by Yamaha and Mazda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Zetec_engine
That's what i meant Jazoli cheers for the correction.

colski777

13 posts

109 months

Wednesday 11th February 2015
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Leptons said:
You'll do well here. Welcome!
Cheers mate up for a good laugh on here, i am now a cockwomble lol.

slipstream 1985

12,123 posts

178 months

Wednesday 11th February 2015
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ferrariF50lover

1,834 posts

225 months

Wednesday 11th February 2015
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This thread is now all sorts of amazing.