Iys probably as safe as the ACES product!!Honestly dont want to start a debate on this but truely nothing is 100 percent proven safe in the long run,not even gasoline,if your experiencing a rough idle along with poor mpg with a noticeable loss of power and your dealer is offering to perform an induction cleaning for free under warranty,my response would be why not,if it does rectify my symptoms,personaly my rough idle started around 5k which sounds to me its related to the carbon just starting(forming). BTW wish we all focused more on a catch can being our first mod over a tune respectivly and avoiding this (clutter)of buildup overtime. ZFoMoCoSHO said:
Intake valve cleaning
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The only time a meth kit or catch can will be effective against carbon buildup is on the early stages of owning your vehicle,predominantly when your vehicle is roughly new,believe the same goes for the chemical intake cleaners,personaly dont think any of the mentioned products,mods will help in the later stages ,especially with excessive mileage,jusy my 2 cent. Z
Yeah, the longer you wait, the more hardcore you'll have to get to fix the problem. Same as anything else. Our bodies learn to adapt to the environment we expose them to, and with so much computer power behind them, so do our vehicles. Vehicles nowadays are treated as "throwaways" and not "collectibles", so the owner has to take that extra care right from the start.
vernonator
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ShoBoat said:
How is this different than the 3M kit or using seafoam in the intake?
I would run from that dealer. Doing "warranty work" based upon what the customer says without verifying the concern violates Ford policy. I assure you the techs have boroscopes and this service procedure doesn't exist in the manual. If they have such little regard for their commitments to Ford, I seriously doubt they'd hesitate to screw you over.ZSHO said:
Most likely they are throwing you a bone and internalling it through the dealer. I would also question why they are offering to do this when the only info available from Ford is against this.All recommended maintenance can be found in your owners manual, period. if i were you, I'd bring up these concerns with chemicals overheating turbos and chunks of debris taking out components. Then I would ask them to call the Ford hotline and discuss it with them before having this done.
nickstewartroc
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Is the friendly dealer perhaps a BG service dealer as well? I know they will do an induction cleaning
I think there are directions on how the procedure exactly is performed,usually inserting the straw inside the TB with the vehicle running,actually as mentioned a while back quite a few members had great results using a similiar product with roughly about 20k on the OD,now if your going to wait until you have excessive mileage of course caution should be advised with possibly chunks of debris damaging your turbos and all . ZJDW1 said:
A rundown of intake valve cleaning options:
http://www.aa1car.com/library/intake_valve_deposits_gdi_engines.htm
http://www.aa1car.com/library/intake_valve_deposits_gdi_engines.htm
I just wanted to update everyone as promised earlier on any updates or findings based on the topic,today visited my dear friendly dealer and had a induction cleaning which consists of a two part fuel kit,first they cleaned the throttle body and wiped it downed gently,then they used the product with pics below and truely amazed at the increased in performance,after that had an oil changr done and quite honestly impressed,the best part it was free actually it cost me a round of cold ones.lol .Z
glock-coma
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So did they actually send it through the intake? Or just cleaned around the throttle body and added it to the fuel?
Sorry for the late reply,they recommed it every 30k which doesnt sound to shabby at a regular price of 99.95 i believe. ZSHOdded said:Need a little SOMETHING to get that stubborn gunk off of those fuel injector pintlesGlad to hear it made a difference, Z. Did they say when the next service should be? Esp the FI cleaner?