Valve cleaning cost?

Oldschoolmk7 said:

I just did about 18 miles straight @ 4800 rpms in 3rd. Put it in 4th and hammered it and surprise surprise a puff of black crap came bellowing out on uphill pull. Italian tune up at 17k now completed. . FYI, this probably works best for catless as I doubt I would want all that carbon buildup going into cats myself.

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AZ GTI said:

Damn idk if I have the heart to do that to my car the constant rpm that is.

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Oldschoolmk7 said:

Your just heating up the valves. This ea888 3 can handle that no problem. Lol. Car actually felt better after doing it.

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Tigsel said:

Try this before removing valve cover: https://www.amazon.com/CRC-05319-In...pID=41FNGhHonxL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

Did it on my Tiguan, worked great.

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PacDawg said:

I want to try this product. My car has 64k miles so its way overdue for valve cleaning but want to use this for the mean time.

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AZ GTI said:

Interesting, how many miles do you have on yours?

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Oldschoolmk7 said:

Just under 17000. But, do a lot of short trips. I’m sure a walnut blast is the best way to clean them. Doubt I will ever go to that extent though.

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PacDawg said:

Had carbon cleaning done over weekend. Was done as a side job from ex vw tech and now mercedes tech. Walnut blasting plus dsg serice cost me $400. 65k miles with no catch can or water meth. Car does seem to idle and drive a little smoother after service.

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Oldschoolmk7 said:

Yours honestly does not look that bad for 65k in the first pic. That was a good deal for dsg and valve cleaning.

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ErBall said:

EGR, slight overlap of intake and exhaust valves lead to this. Catch cans and the like do almost nothing for buildup. They'll keep your intercooler and charge pipes nice and clean though.

Hell I ran a healthy quantity of direct port methanol immediately after valve cleaning and still had decent buildup 20k miles later. I bought a harbor freight blaster, the 3d printed BMW n54 port adaptor, and did it myself. Spent maybe 90 bucks on tools and had sparkly clean valves afterwords.

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PacDawg said:

Probably 80% of the time.

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