Author Topic: Do engine cleaners actually work??  (Read 3291 times)

Hatchet Harry

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Re: Do engine cleaners actually work??
« Reply #10 on: 18 July 2005, 00:28 »
deffo... i agree...

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Re: Do engine cleaners actually work??
« Reply #11 on: 18 July 2005, 11:41 »
I stopped using optimax but 91 ron made the car even slower and moody and dropped me to 29 mpg instead of 41 with the optimax on a good run as for engine cleaners i stick a bottle of slick 50 in the car before the mot as it kills the emmissions for the test but its worth running a bottle through every 3000 miles or so.. :smiley:

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Re: Do engine cleaners actually work??
« Reply #12 on: 18 July 2005, 11:47 »

mine did until i fixed all the vacuum leaks it had...  5 in total.. took about 8 months to find all of them!


it would be wheezy in hot weather.. best in the cold.. etc etc.. 

now its the same no matter what

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Re: Do engine cleaners actually work??
« Reply #13 on: 18 July 2005, 11:50 »
my car is very moody atm.... lookin like a sack of cack too... :undecided: soon she'll be sorted!

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Re: Do engine cleaners actually work??
« Reply #14 on: 18 July 2005, 13:12 »
Mine had "off days" wen she was idlin too high...half expected her to be abit of a tw@t after being off the rd so long...but shes :cool:
def check for wot 'seer said and a gud service shud put it rite,did mine :smiley:

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Re: Do engine cleaners actually work??
« Reply #15 on: 18 July 2005, 14:10 »
yer mine was also idling v. high n even caused it to fail MOT emissions.

glad tis all sorted now was puttin me off the car for a while like  :cry:
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