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Do premium fuels de-coke turbochargers as well as injection components?
This is a very important question as many vehicle owners suffer sticking vanes in turbochargers due to carbon build-up, which is very expensive to fix. Do any of the super fuels (V-Power, Ultimate or Excellium) clean turbochargers as well as injectors and inlet valves? It seems to me that any cleaning agent in the fuel may have its properties destroyed during combustion.
Asked on 9 September 2010 by Dr Rod
Answered by
Honest John
I don't know. I've heard of carbon build-up in the inlet manifolds of high performance direct injected Audi petrol engines. This seems to particularly plague the RS4, but an RS4 owner would have to be nuts to run his car on anything less than Shell V-Power.
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