Terracleaning your car
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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?
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?
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
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
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