Intake valve carbon cleaning isn't a hard diy, just time consuming I just did the 3rd carbon cleaning on my car in a little over a year (16 months to be exact) seems like every 5 to 6 months its right back to where it was The harbor freight walnut shell blaster is a tool to consider, and i did purchase one when i cleaned my valves.
Audi S4 3.0t PCV Coolant Leak w/ Carbon Cleaning - Meister Werks
I received a service advisory for carbon clean, i asked dealer and found it would probably be one or two years away from new
Unless your tuned and want to stay away from dealer might as well.
In this video, i clean the intake valves on my audi b9 s4 without walnut blasting using a diy method that anyone can do at home This is a turbocharged gdi engine, so intake valves don’t. I was thinking about doing this when i did the carbon cleaning for the secondary air system May do it in the future
How much of a pita was it, and whose kit did you use Looks like supercharger, and fuel. You will have some brittle carbon remaining at the bottom of the valves that can be easily scraped and vacuumed out Here are the attachments, hopefully this helps the community or those who may have been intimidated to tackle a carbon cleaning without some instructions
When i had a carbon cleaning in my gti done it was a night and day
The car felt like it could breath again and boost came easier and quicker. Yesterday i started the long process of cleaning the carbon from the manifold and thought i would share my limited knowledge here, probably better done with pictures. I have a 2012 b8 s4 with 88k miles All the fan boys on the fb groups swear that you need a carbon cleaning when you’re changing the pcv if it hasn’t been done.
Direct injection carbon cleaning on my audi b8 s4/s5 v8 home built by jeff 229k subscribers 1.2k Decided to get an early jump on the carbon cleaning service that would have been due in the future on my a3 Hopefully this is handy for some of you that are looking to save a couple hundred. Just getting a idea here, has anyone had the s4 engine carbon cleaned
Is it recommended, did it work, were you happy and price ?
