MoT Failure - HC Emissions

[blitzracing]

BrightYellowTVR said:

Not sure if you are all sorted now, but for reference try and have the engine terra cleaned, just had my Galaxy done and has made a difference to economy and performance.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wiViPKIoG68

Hmm- I wonder how much they paid him? Such a large drop in HC would tend to mean it had cleaned the catalyst element more than hard carbon inside the combustion chamber

Try a bottle of Redex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03nL8Z0dRkI

[BrightYellowTVR]

blitzracing said:

BrightYellowTVR said:

Not sure if you are all sorted now, but for reference try and have the engine terra cleaned, just had my Galaxy done and has made a difference to economy and performance.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wiViPKIoG68

Hmm- I wonder how much they paid him? Such a large drop in HC would tend to mean it had cleaned the catalyst element more than hard carbon inside the combustion chamber

Try a bottle of Redex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03nL8Z0dRkI

Well I had it done along with a few others and we have all noticed improvements, so it definatley does somethin. The next car I do, I will get them to give me the emissions test data before and afterwards.

[TWB86]

BrightYellowTVR said:

Not sure if you are all sorted now, but for reference try and have the engine terra cleaned, just had my Galaxy done and has made a difference to economy and performance.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wiViPKIoG68

Yes I am sorted now thanks, but thanks for the recommendation.

And thanks to the person pointing out the water corrosion, I guess that makes sense!

Cheers

Tom

[Sardonicus]

blitzracing said:

Hmm- I wonder how much they paid him? Such a large drop in HC would tend to mean it had cleaned the catalyst element more than hard carbon inside the combustion chamber

Try a bottle of Redex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03nL8Z0dRkI

That vid is a crock of st, the engine was not at running temp and probably an accumulation of lots of stop starting during the workshop also, that programme is such a joke.

[PRTVR]

blitzracing said:

BrightYellowTVR said:

Not sure if you are all sorted now, but for reference try and have the engine terra cleaned, just had my Galaxy done and has made a difference to economy and performance.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wiViPKIoG68

Hmm- I wonder how much they paid him? Such a large drop in HC would tend to mean it had cleaned the catalyst element more than hard carbon inside the combustion chamber

Try a bottle of Redex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03nL8Z0dRkI

Never had a lot of luck with redex , remember my son coming home with his first car, a Peugeot d Turbo, the only thing I knew about diesels was to avoid them if they were Smokey on start up, so this information was passed on to him, so what did he come home with ? Yep on start up the whole car disappeared in its own smoke, we tried redex and all it did was make the smoke worse, next we tried a bottle of something I had. Bought off a selling channel, it was called something like Asta 2000, what difference it made, there was no smoke at all, none, it was amazing.

Anyway a friend brought round a mini with the engine warning light on, a check of the fault codes revealed a list as long as your arm, a search on the internet showed people having problems with coke build up, I thought it was worth a try with a fuel system cleaner, so a can of DEA was put in the tank, the codes reset, along with instructions to the driver to do some longer journeys ( the car was running OK).
Two days latter the car came back with fault codes, but they were down to two, reset the codes again and this time they stayed out,
I found it amazing that something put in your fuel tank could make so much difference, I do wonder what would have been the outcome if the car had been taken to a main dealers.

[BrightYellowTVR]

Sardonicus said:

blitzracing said:

Hmm- I wonder how much they paid him? Such a large drop in HC would tend to mean it had cleaned the catalyst element more than hard carbon inside the combustion chamber

Try a bottle of Redex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03nL8Z0dRkI

That vid is a crock of st, the engine was not at running temp and probably an accumulation of lots of stop starting during the workshop also, that programme is such a joke.

No probs thats your opinion, fully entittled to it.

However I can report that the next tank of fuel has gone nearly 100 miles extra so far, so it has had a positive effect on my car, at £100 for the Terraclean, it won't take long to pay for itself on the fuel I have saved.

Cheers,

[BlackpoolRock]

BrightYellowTVR said:

blitzracing said:

BrightYellowTVR said:

Not sure if you are all sorted now, but for reference try and have the engine terra cleaned, just had my Galaxy done and has made a difference to economy and performance.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wiViPKIoG68

Hmm- I wonder how much they paid him? Such a large drop in HC would tend to mean it had cleaned the catalyst element more than hard carbon inside the combustion chamber

Try a bottle of Redex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03nL8Z0dRkI

Well I had it done along with a few others and we have all noticed improvements, so it definatley does somethin. The next car I do, I will get them to give me the emissions test data before and afterwards.

I'd agree with Jon, I had my Defender done and it made a noticeable difference to throttle response mid range. Far more than the fuel cleaners in the bottles. It seems to burn cleaner from the exhaust too.

[blitzracing]

Im happy to beleve that if it cleans the catalysts grid out of contaminates it will both make the exhaust gas cleaner and reduce exhaust back pressure that saps power, but it would be more interesting to run the same test on a car without catalysts and see the exhasut improvements.

[BlackpoolRock]

blitzracing said:

Im happy to beleve that if it cleans the catalysts grid out of contaminates it will both make the exhaust gas cleaner and reduce exhaust back pressure that saps power, but it would be more interesting to run the same test on a car without catalysts and see the exhasut improvements.

My Defender is an 86 model so doesn't have a cat. There was a chap who had a de-catted Marcos that failed it's emissions test then passed after having terra clean done. I'll see if I can dig out the emmissions print out for you, he posted them on a facebook group recently.