I bought a get this..LoL... A CDN $20 Ford Cortina GT2000 and then drove it 124 miles a day back and forth to a drafting study @ a college for 10 months. It never broke down on me but it did get a brake job and a new muffler. I used a decarboning additive to clean out the cylinders and heads because it was on the shelf at the service station and I thought it to be cool. It was comprised of hundreds of round black balls about 1 cm in diameter and it was applied by running the engine, opening the throttle butterfly valve @ the venturi and dumping the balls into the engine. WOW and did it create huge clouds of dark grey smoke out the exhaust. It gave me a sense of doing something positive for my vehicle but I never knew if it did anything beneficial..LoL...Yes, that is the question. Injector cleaners, engine cleaners from STP and similar brands. Snake oil all of them?
Yes so I've read. There are different diesel and gasoline though, so one question is if they also differ in "cleaning performance" as well.Any fuel you can buy at the gas station carries additives already.
As with almost everything there is not just a yes or no answer, there exist quite many experiment and reports which show what they can do and what they cannot.Yes, that is the question. Injector cleaners, engine cleaners from STP and similar brands. Snake oil all of them?
Yes, it is one of the better ones, even Mercedes and other brands relabel it and use during inspections at problem cases, for example https://www.ebay.com/itm/325009387042In my searching in the past, Keropur from BASF has engine cleaning effect and there was some thread somewhere in the internet that this material is used Aral gasolin and diesel.
BMW has it as well.Yes, it is one of the better ones, even Mercedes and other brands relabel it and use during inspections at problem cases, for example https://www.ebay.com/itm/325009387042
I have a diesel car with a yellow alert on one of the injectors. Serviced by the book. Around 260,000 km now. Tech says no worry until red alert. I am thinking of switching to the diesel ”extra” fuel with more additives. But will it change anything?As with almost everything there is not just a yes or no answer, there exist quite many experiment and reports which show what they can do and what they cannot.
Would you like to use some for your engine(s)? If yes, please write some details about it like mileage, usage and what you would like to achieve.
You can try..I have a diesel car with a yellow alert on one of the injectors. Serviced by the book. Around 260,000 km now. Tech says no worry until red alert. I am thinking of switching to the diesel ”extra” fuel with more additives. But will it change anything?
It might but those additives might be not dosed highly enough as they are more for maintenance to rather keep them clean.I have a diesel car with a yellow alert on one of the injectors. Serviced by the book. Around 260,000 km now. Tech says no worry until red alert. I am thinking of switching to the diesel ”extra” fuel with more additives. But will it change anything?
Snake oil all of them?