A little TLC can go a long way to keeping your car running at its optimal performance. Think of how you feel after the Christmas holidays; you’ve been eating, drinking and exercising less. When you come back you feel sluggish, performing below your peak. You need a detox.
Cars are no different. Regular running of your vehicle results in heavy carbon deposits on several moving parts, causing your engine performance to strain. This leads to reduced fuel economy, reduced power and heavy smoke emissions from the exhaust. A carbon clean is the equivalent of a detox for your car. It eliminates carbon deposits from your engine, which hinder the engine’s performance and leads to significant engine problems.
A carbon clean helps eliminate carbon build up and restores performance. It also reduces squeaky noises and exhaust fumes, improves fuel consumption and engine life, and increases the overall wear and tear of your vehicle.
What’s Involved in a Carbon Clean
To perform the carbon clean, hydrogen gas is pumped into the air intake. The hydrogen gas has a high reactive and combustion rate. As the gas requires less energy to ignite and a wider flammability range, you are burning off the carbon deposits from your engine. This process of burning off carbon deposits is called pyrolysis.
How long this takes depends on the level of contamination. The duration can be controlled by the machine to tailor for each car.
How Often Do You Need a Carbon Clean
To ensure that fuel, maintenance, and expensive repair costs remain low, it’s recommended to give your car a carbon clean every 10,000 kilometres. Of course, this depends on how you regularly you drive your car and the environment. Consult with us at Carcare Joondalup to determine if it’s time for a carbon clean.
Is It Possible to DIY?
We wouldn’t recommend you do this at home. While there are many videos online suggesting this, they suggest using alternative, easy to use at home, products. This essentially cuts corners and could result in further damage to your vehicle if not done correctly.
How to Extend Your Engine Life
While we don’t recommend you do a carbon clean at home, you most certainly can take control of the health of your engine. This will give you extra kilometres between carbon cleans. Everything is interconnected. Make sure your air filter is regularly cleaned, and complete all scheduled services. Try to limit your exposure to heavy pollution or poor road conditions.
Carcare Joondalup provides the carbon clean service for petrol and diesel vehicles anywhere in Perth. Just call us on 08 6500 1708 or contact us online and ask about our carbon clean services. We’re happy to assist and provide all the friendly service your car needs.