TERRA CLEAN

[Mo13]

I vaguely remember this being done on a car on one of the wheeler dealers episodes, now they have China doing the advert!

http://www.terraclean.co.uk/index.html

It seems to bang on about MPG, Emissions and Performance. but in the real world is this any good for the E30?

[Brianmoooore]

You'll never go out of business selling snake oil to the gullible!

[bigwinn]

was an article in Total BMW mag a few months back

Really bigged it up, but was missing one vital thing- £price!

I wouldnt use it on an older car as I'm sure a decent service/maintenance schedule would be more effective, however after owning a BMW Mini Cooper S R55 with with the turbo engine, that needed decoking (!) after 30k miles, some modern engines may benefit.

[scjimbo]

My father in law is a massive fan of the show. (Christ knows why) Anyway if China says it he does it. He had this done to his 745.

It made a huge difference to the car. Its a pig to start, Runs like a crock of crap and smokes like a bitch.

Well worth the money

[bigwinn]

from memory the mag article was on an X5

[harry_p]

I've yet to see a convincing, properly independent test.

It all sounds rather snake oil to me.

If it was that wonderfull wouldn't manufacturers be licensing the setup and putting them in their dealerships?

modern fuels, managements and materials mean unless your car spends it's life sat at idle the engine is probably pretty clean inside anyway.

[pud1]

Have to agree with Brian. We all want to treat our pride and joys to the best we can afford, especially if it keeps it out of the local workshop but it doesnt need to go as far as the expensive voodoo potions. A regular oil/filter change regardless of annual mileage, decent quality parts, preventative maintenance rather than reactive and drive it with a little sympathy and a decent block will go round the clock twice without much more than a clutch.
I did all this to my cars - the most extravagant I was was with an xr3 where it had molyslip each oil change. That 1600 block went past 185 and never missed a beat. It never needed oil between meals and the water never dropped. Its demise was a shunt up the arse into a ditch by a dear young lady who thought it more important to wave at her freinds coming the other way than apply brake pressure.
Remember that Castrol advert, Liquid engineering. A lot of people dont realise how appropriate those two words were.
Its the most important part in your car.

I rest my case mer ludd..