Terracleaning your car

Terracleaning your car

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anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Saturday 14th March 2015
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I've found out a garage near me offers this service.

It's a 13 year old car, 110K miles, V8 and I run it on V-Power all the time. The previous owner had it 12 years and looked after it well although I've no idea what petrol he used.

My thinking was it might be worth doing to shift all the years worth of crud in the injectors etc. Not that the car runs badly but a spring clean might do some good.

Before I take the plunge, does anybody have any thoughts about it? Is it snake oil or does it help things run smoothly?

one eyed mick

1,189 posts

160 months

Sunday 15th March 2015
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hss hss hss hss hss ?

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Sunday 15th March 2015
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I am inclined to think the same.

fatjon

2,144 posts

212 months

Thursday 19th March 2015
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Ask them what solvent it is that dissolves carbon. The answer will be amusing at least.

steveo3002

10,493 posts

173 months

Thursday 19th March 2015
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spend the ££ on petrol or a good service

DVandrews

1,315 posts

282 months

Thursday 19th March 2015
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Steam is pretty effective at removing carbon deposits..

Dave

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Thursday 19th March 2015
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There's actually nothing wrong with the car and after reading these replies and the general doubts elsewhere, I'm going to leave well alone.

rev-erend

21,404 posts

283 months

Thursday 26th March 2015
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Is it a direct injection engine.

BigBen

11,610 posts

229 months

Wednesday 1st April 2015
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The first Atom I had was fitted with a K-series and a custom ECU. It was conservatively mapped so ran very very rich. Eventually it became reluctant to start when cold.

At a rolling road day the garage suggested some engine treatment which I guess was a Terraclean predecessor, it involved pumping some stuff that was surely illegal under the Geneva convention through the engine. It worked, the cold start problem was cured and the engine ran a lot better.

This was a specific situation and I doubt there is any merit in carrying out the process on a normally mapped production car

Ben

Heaveho

5,279 posts

173 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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I've seen some minor benefits, it's more effective on a direct injection engine.

Heaveho

5,279 posts

173 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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I've seen some minor benefits, it's more effective on a direct injection engine.