Which is better for cleaning engine carbon deposit, additives or bottles?

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the new issue of Morning Tea Q&A. Recently, a cyclist left a message in our cyclist group, asking, "Which is better, cleaning engine carbon deposits, additives or bottles?" This problem is quite common in our daily car use. Today, let's analyze it and see which cleaning method is more recommended!

In fact, whether using additives or hanging bottles, these two methods have a certain cleaning effect on carbon deposits, but in the specific use process, the applicable conditions of the two cleaning methods are not the same, so when cleaning engine carbon deposits, we should not confuse the two methods, but "suit the remedy to the case"!

In this case, we must know how the carbon deposit is formed and where it is mainly distributed in the engine. In fact, carbon deposits mainly come from hydrocarbons, paraffin wax and colloid that can't be completely burned in gasoline. Carbon deposits will stick to valves, cylinders, spark plugs, combustion chambers and intake pipes, causing difficulties in starting vehicles, unstable idle speed, excessive exhaust, and increasing fuel consumption over time, which will seriously lead to engine scrapping.

(1) If the carbon deposit mainly adheres to the valve, cylinder and combustion chamber, it will be more comprehensive to use additives to clean the carbon deposit, because the chemical components contained in the additives can effectively dissolve the carbon deposit particles, so that the carbon deposit can be gradually reduced and discharged together with the exhaust system, and the dissolved carbon deposit is not easy to block the three-way catalysis.

The advantages of this cleaning method are simple operation, complete and low cost, only adding additives to the oil tank; As for the disadvantages, too many choices make it easy to buy inferior products.

(2) If the carbon deposition is slight, hanging bottles can really play a certain role. However, in the face of more carbon deposits, hanging bottles can not effectively clean up the carbon deposits at the top of throttle and piston, but only clean up the carbon deposits at the air intake to some extent, and can not change the senses in actual driving.

Therefore, the advantage of hanging bottles is better cleaning for younger vehicles; The disadvantage is that it is impossible to clean up stubborn carbon deposits and there is a risk of blocking three-way catalysis.

Finally, let's have a general understanding. Using additives to clean carbon deposits has wider application conditions, better cleaning effect and more convenient operation; However, hanging bottles to clean carbon deposits has limited application conditions and general cleaning effect, and it is impossible to clean heavier carbon deposits. Therefore, the effect of hanging bottles in the car is different from that in medicine. When cleaning up carbon deposits, it is recommended that you use additives to clean up, and pay attention to more maintenance when using the car. After all, "three points depend on repair, seven points depend on maintenance"!

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This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.