I took my S5 for a carbon clean at the Essex based franchise for Engine Carbon Clean - Home a few months ago.
I wasn't expecting much, but was very impressed with the results, so much so that I have bought the franchise for my area.
Kept it a little under the radar as far as the forum is concerned as wanted to build up the knowledge, get a real good insight into it and get a good few under my belt before I introduced it on here.
So far I personally have done 90 vehicles, the other franchisees have done many many more between us all.
The process is fairly straight forward and you can read up about it on the website above.
My own Facebook page is at
https://www.facebook.com/F5ECC
Please visit it - you can check out the reviews and take a look through the posts to see the kind of cars I've been doing. Please feel free to like the page so you can keep up to date with the cars I am encountering.
Basically with this process we generate Hydrogen and Oxygen gas from water, feed this into the air intake after the MAF sensor and run the car for 30 minutes (with some revving every 10 minutes).
It sounded way too simple, but feeling the results on the drive home convinced me on mine, and feeling and seeing the results after performing it on other cars for the last 3 months has also convinced me.
It's a bit of a weird thing for some to get their head around. Quite often I get questions like "so how much more MPG will I get", or "what improvements/extra will I get".
Those are exactly the wrong questions. You don't get extra or added anything. You only recover what you have lost. Just how much you have lost depends on many things, your car may already be pretty clean or it may be pretty dirty, depending upon make/model/age/mileage/driving habits/fuel used, etc.
You have to think of it like a car wash (in more ways than one).
- you take a dirty car to a car wash and bring it out and the difference is massive.
- you take a clean car into a car wash and bring it out and the difference is negligible or none at all.
- how often should you get a carbon clean done is like asking how often to wash the car - depends how it is driven - go by feel - there is no magic answer.
Carbon build-up in my limited experience doing this now for 3 months, is worse on vehicles which are:
1) diesel worse than petrol for build-up
2) lots of short, stop-start journeys
3) drivers who only potter around at low revs
4) vehicles left idling for long times
Taxi cabs and buses are the worst.
In terms of the symptoms of the carbon build-up, typically the noise from the engine contains all the usual tick over noises and fans/pulleys, but is very 'bass-heavy' with a lot of low level rumble, shaking, etc. With the process I'm using this typically disappears within the first 10 minutes and the car idles better. The revs then climb quicker and any flat spots (if carbon related) are eliminated.
The rumble is down to the engine struggling, with added friction, reduced 'breathing'. Remove the carbon and the bass notes disappear, the engine works better and as a result you can recover MPG (notice I didn't say gain).
I was sceptical and there are a few cars I have done where the results were minimal, but these tended to be ones where they were driven very hard from new, the make/model is not susceptible to carbon build-up, good quality fuel is used - i.e. were pretty clean already (again think car wash).
The worst ones are cabs/buses or drivers with short commutes, or older cars with high mileage.
The S5 V8 and RS4 V8 have really good results with our process and I have some recent examples on my Facebook page, including a forum member with an S5 V8 I chatted to about this at AITP - I pointed him towards his local agent as he was out of my area.
So, wasn't intending to post this for another month or two, but given the thread about carbon cleaning bringing this up though perhaps I should. So on a personal note for me this is a new venture and one into the car world which all of you guys have encouraged me into over the recent years - one I'm enjoying immensely and hope to for years to come.
I wasn't expecting much, but was very impressed with the results, so much so that I have bought the franchise for my area.
Kept it a little under the radar as far as the forum is concerned as wanted to build up the knowledge, get a real good insight into it and get a good few under my belt before I introduced it on here.
So far I personally have done 90 vehicles, the other franchisees have done many many more between us all.
The process is fairly straight forward and you can read up about it on the website above.
My own Facebook page is at
https://www.facebook.com/F5ECC
Please visit it - you can check out the reviews and take a look through the posts to see the kind of cars I've been doing. Please feel free to like the page so you can keep up to date with the cars I am encountering.
Basically with this process we generate Hydrogen and Oxygen gas from water, feed this into the air intake after the MAF sensor and run the car for 30 minutes (with some revving every 10 minutes).
It sounded way too simple, but feeling the results on the drive home convinced me on mine, and feeling and seeing the results after performing it on other cars for the last 3 months has also convinced me.
It's a bit of a weird thing for some to get their head around. Quite often I get questions like "so how much more MPG will I get", or "what improvements/extra will I get".
Those are exactly the wrong questions. You don't get extra or added anything. You only recover what you have lost. Just how much you have lost depends on many things, your car may already be pretty clean or it may be pretty dirty, depending upon make/model/age/mileage/driving habits/fuel used, etc.
You have to think of it like a car wash (in more ways than one).
- you take a dirty car to a car wash and bring it out and the difference is massive.
- you take a clean car into a car wash and bring it out and the difference is negligible or none at all.
- how often should you get a carbon clean done is like asking how often to wash the car - depends how it is driven - go by feel - there is no magic answer.
Carbon build-up in my limited experience doing this now for 3 months, is worse on vehicles which are:
1) diesel worse than petrol for build-up
2) lots of short, stop-start journeys
3) drivers who only potter around at low revs
4) vehicles left idling for long times
Taxi cabs and buses are the worst.
In terms of the symptoms of the carbon build-up, typically the noise from the engine contains all the usual tick over noises and fans/pulleys, but is very 'bass-heavy' with a lot of low level rumble, shaking, etc. With the process I'm using this typically disappears within the first 10 minutes and the car idles better. The revs then climb quicker and any flat spots (if carbon related) are eliminated.
The rumble is down to the engine struggling, with added friction, reduced 'breathing'. Remove the carbon and the bass notes disappear, the engine works better and as a result you can recover MPG (notice I didn't say gain).
I was sceptical and there are a few cars I have done where the results were minimal, but these tended to be ones where they were driven very hard from new, the make/model is not susceptible to carbon build-up, good quality fuel is used - i.e. were pretty clean already (again think car wash).
The worst ones are cabs/buses or drivers with short commutes, or older cars with high mileage.
The S5 V8 and RS4 V8 have really good results with our process and I have some recent examples on my Facebook page, including a forum member with an S5 V8 I chatted to about this at AITP - I pointed him towards his local agent as he was out of my area.
So, wasn't intending to post this for another month or two, but given the thread about carbon cleaning bringing this up though perhaps I should. So on a personal note for me this is a new venture and one into the car world which all of you guys have encouraged me into over the recent years - one I'm enjoying immensely and hope to for years to come.
