MotoVac Carbon Cleaning

[alf]

Anybody did this before? www.motorvac.com

My tech recommends doing this once a year, it costs $80. Pretty much runs a bunch of detergent through the fuel system to get rid of soft carbon deposits, varnish and gum.

thanks
alf

[Hetmann]

I had this done to my truck by a local service center. This place is always finding things to fix for me. I've never gotten out of there with them doing just what I asked for. They did it without asking me first and gave me some line about how it would give me a lot more power, yada, yada, yada. Anyway truck runs the same way it ever did.

I think they just need to pay the damn thing off. I'm never going there again.

[john70t]

A bottle of Techron will do the same thing-and is safe for fuel lines(read:fire). If you always use a quality gas you should have no problems with sediment, and anything that will disintegrate solid particles is pretty scary anyways. If they are not completely broken up, they clog up injectors etc.. downstream as well.

Jerry, if the service they did is not on the original contract that you signed, that's fraud and you don't have to pay for it. Thats on their tab.
Also it's tampering. You didn't want them changing something around without permission ("Hey mister, your rims look a lot better to me now that I've gone and painted them purple. Oh yeah, that will be $50")
Always ask for your old parts back(your right by law-call a cop if they won't), and if in doubt get second opinions.
Some of the mom-and-pops that use quality parts, explain the process to the customer, and only recommend necessitys get customers back year after year and are usually booked weeks/months in advance.