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8 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Spent the holiday cleaning the Reno. Ran across a useful YT video on cleaning car seats. A Mix of rubbing Alcohol, Dawn Platinum, Hot water and OxyClean. Works great, the crap I pulled out of the seats and floormats beggars belief. Between that and Zeolite the car no longer smells like an ashtray.

I have an Ozone generator coming soon to get the rest.

Washed the car (twice) and it's still filthy on the outside, the rims especially. Still trying to figure out how to get them clean.

The meguiars all wheel cleaner actually works pretty good with a little brush agitation as it soaks. May take 2 applications but its one of the better wheel cleaners I've used.

[iDeFecZx]

9 hours ago, Colty said:

Too many people to quote for replies, but...

Basically, from what I understand, the word of mouth marketing and recyclable materials make it a good deal for them. Only 15% or less items are actually warrantied. I haven't seen any "catch" yet. I'll just enjoy the nearly free maintenance since they're offering it. 

And yes, me and close friends of mine have warrantied anything and everything. Bushings, brakes (even track brakes which is huge), oil, air filters, ect. 

They need to start selling over here too

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10 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Spent the holiday cleaning the Reno. Ran across a useful YT video on cleaning car seats. A Mix of rubbing Alcohol, Dawn Platinum, Hot water and OxyClean. Works great, the crap I pulled out of the seats and floormats beggars belief. Between that and Zeolite the car no longer smells like an ashtray.

I have an Ozone generator coming soon to get the rest.

Washed the car (twice) and it's still filthy on the outside, the rims especially. Still trying to figure out how to get them clean.

https://www.meguiars.com/automotive/products/meguiars-ultimate-all-wheel-cleaner-g180124-24-oz-spray

I forgot the link, I had the page open and link copied and everything but I guess my cache flushed before the instruction executed.

It's worked well on very heavy brake dust, some embedded brake dust, and a little embedded iron. Not sure what's what's wrong with the wheels but this stuff is pretty easy to not screw up as long as you don't let it out in direct sun and don't let it dry on the wheels. Keep it wet and scrub it about with a long bristled brush then blast it with the hose, rinse the brush, and scrub it off with clean water to remove any residue. I always end up letting it on the wheel longer than instructed and no harm so far, but never more than about 5 minutes. If you have heavy embedded iron in the wheel you may need something like iron-x or iron-out to get that out of the barrel, but I'm a little sketch on using that on chrome or polished wheels without strictly adhering to the time limits since it is an acid.

[bcredeur97]

https://blog.willemmelching.nl/carhacking/2022/01/02/vw-part1/ 
 

it’s weird reading stuff from devs/hackers about modifying the power steering ECU of their car so it’ll work better with their DIY self driving project 

[Bitter]

Diy self driving sounds like a diy lawsuit.

[bcredeur97]

2 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Diy self driving sounds like a diy lawsuit.

Tell that to George Hotz

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot 

[Bananasplit_00]

As my parents are moving, the '38(maybe '39, dont remember) Ford Tudor DeLuxe has to go it seems Soooo if any of the Swedes(or well, i guess really anyone who could pick it up) are interested in one of those i guess hit me up in the DMs so it can end up somewhere nice.

 

Its in really good condition everywhere, but it has also not been ran in at least 22 years Got a Willwood disk break kit on it that was installed somewhere in the early 2010s or late 00's, checked it over and made sure everything was free and greased up all the things that need that in 2018 or so too.

 

More of a restore or maybe restomod project than something you would build a hot rod out of imo.

[Radium_Angel]

ANyone ever used Seafoam? I see some videos touting it as the best thing ever, and others saying not so much.

I assume it depends on the level of filth in the engine. 

[Bitter]

3 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

ANyone ever used Seafoam? I see some videos touting it as the best thing ever, and others saying not so much.

I assume it depends on the level of filth in the engine. 

Depends, fixed some spark knock in my mom's old car caused by carbon buildup.

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

Depends

Yeah, I figured that's the answer with these cleaners.

Well, it's a whopping 12$, can't hurt to try.

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2 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Yeah, I figured that's the answer with these cleaners.

Well, it's a whopping 12$, can't hurt to try.

I use it in carbs on small engines mostly to keep them clean, my 2 stroke snow blower usually gets some. Haven't used any in a car in a while since I haven't had a need to use any. Did a soak on some stuck rings on a Ford 1.9 CVH a long time ago that got compression up from 70psi to 110psi on that cylinder but had minimal impact on other cylinders already around 90-100psi. If there's nothing wrong it probably won't fix anything, it'll depend what's wrong. You kind of have to know what's wrong and if seafoam will fix it already lol. Even then it's hit or miss.

[Radium_Angel]

5 minutes ago, Bitter said:

already

It's the Reno, haven't had a chance to get it out and running yet (not registered) but at start...sometimes....it'll sputter like it's not getting fuel, but then again it's been sitting for the better part of 2021, so it needs some fresh gas, a good high speed drive (the Italian Tune Up as it were) and I thought something like seafoam or injector cleaner (plus oil change natch)

[jetnoodles]

Not into cars myself but my dad is and I thought I'll show you his pride and joy.

C reg Ford Escort

It looks like this

[Bitter]

29 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

It's the Reno, haven't had a chance to get it out and running yet (not registered) but at start...sometimes....it'll sputter like it's not getting fuel, but then again it's been sitting for the better part of 2021, so it needs some fresh gas, a good high speed drive (the Italian Tune Up as it were) and I thought something like seafoam or injector cleaner (plus oil change natch)

Some in the gas probably won't hurt, Reno is a city in the state of Nevada. What's a Reno? Fuel injected or carburetor?

[Radium_Angel]

5 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Some in the gas probably won't hurt, Reno is a city in the state of Nevada. What's a Reno? Fuel injected or carburetor?

2005 Suzuki Reno, Fuel Injected 4 door hatchback.

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1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

2005 Suzuki Reno, Fuel Injected 4 door hatchback.

Hmm probably won't help with that but it's cheap to try. I'd bank on an ignition component and you're loosing spark sometimes, unless it's a fuel pump. Really anyone's guess without a trouble code or having some test equipment on it to catch it failing.

[Radium_Angel]

42 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Hmm probably won't help with that but it's cheap to try. I'd bank on an ignition component and you're loosing spark sometimes, unless it's a fuel pump. Really anyone's guess without a trouble code or having some test equipment on it to catch it failing.

I forgot about the OBD system, the local auto parts stores used to let you borrow one for free, but since the pandemic....

Any suggestions on an inexpensive one? I can always pull the codes myself

[vetali]

5 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

ANyone ever used Seafoam? I see some videos touting it as the best thing ever, and others saying not so much.

I assume it depends on the level of filth in the engine. 

I heard of it back in the day on car forums before everyone was getting paid to advertise stuff. Its good, I wouldn't ever recommend pouring any type of cleaner inside the engine unless you want to pull off the oil pan shortly after. It will clean it, then everything gets caught in the oil pickup and starves the engine for oil.

 

Top end stuff, like letting it run through a vacuum line is fine though.

[Bitter]

4 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

I forgot about the OBD system, the local auto parts stores used to let you borrow one for free, but since the pandemic....

Any suggestions on an inexpensive one? I can always pull the codes myself

I would assume you're in America but Suzuki has a bigger international reach but I suspect this is probably sold world wide. I have a cheaper Launch brand 8001 scan tool at work for quick stuff when the big snapon is in use or if I need to pull a code at home, it was $80 when I bought it and frankly it felt $10 overpriced then. Now it's $200 and absolutely not worth it. I had a $30 CReader 6 or 7 before it and that was worth it, the 8001 and Creader are equally as slow for live data, but the 8001 can do a few other things besides codes and data but nothing you'd want to or need to do on the Reno. Some codes can point you in the right direction but just a code is not a diagnosis.

 

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1 hour ago, vetali said:

I heard of it back in the day on car forums before everyone was getting paid to advertise stuff. Its good, I wouldn't ever recommend pouring any type of cleaner inside the engine unless you want to pull off the oil pan shortly after. It will clean it, then everything gets caught in the oil pickup and starves the engine for oil.

 

Top end stuff, like letting it run through a vacuum line is fine though.

Eh if it's so heavily sludged that seafoam knocks enough stuff loose to clog the oil pickup then a fresh oil change was going to do the same thing.

I've used it in oil a few times in a personal vehicle just to scrub up some varnish off ring grooves but yeah primary use is top end cleaner and for piston ring soaks as a hail mary on low compression against varnished rings.

[bcredeur97]

8 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

ANyone ever used Seafoam? I see some videos touting it as the best thing ever, and others saying not so much.

I assume it depends on the level of filth in the engine. 

I think it works I just think it requires a lot more than 1 can 1 time to really get things clean. Like if you did it once a week for like 2 months it would make a nice difference. 

I personally feel like you should save your money on doing this and spend it on removing the intake manifold, and give everything a nice deep cleaning by hand, put fresh gaskets and get it all back together. maybe do this @ 150k miles or so or if there is some issue that requires taking things apart between 100-150k. 

It's more work and it costs more, but well worth it me thinks, if you want to keep the car for a very long time anyway.

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1 hour ago, bcredeur97 said:

I think it works I just think it requires a lot more than 1 can 1 time to really get things clean. Like if you did it once a week for like 2 months it would make a nice difference. 

I personally feel like you should save your money on doing this and spend it on removing the intake manifold, and give everything a nice deep cleaning by hand, put fresh gaskets and get it all back together. maybe do this @ 150k miles or so or if there is some issue that requires taking things apart between 100-150k. 

It's more work and it costs more, but well worth it me thinks, if you want to keep the car for a very long time anyway.

For the issue on the FS I had (not an uncommon one with gently driven cars) the official fix is to pull the cylinder head. Well that wasn't happening, so top end cleaner in a can it was! It worked enough to get rid of her engine ping going up hills and brought back some missing gas mileage. We did it again about 6 months later and it didn't make things any better since it was still fixed. I water cleaned the chambers a couple times about 40-50k miles ago and I've done a couple piston soaks too. Last time I looked the piston crowns I could see just a very thin layer of carbon but could read some numbers on them, didn't have any way to look upward but I'm sure it's pretty clean up there too. Did use some GDI cleaner on the GF's 16 Escape 1.6 Turbo and it didn't make any noticeable difference but it didn't have any issues either, just wanted to make sure any buildup was beaten down early on. Idled and performed the same as ever.

[iDeFecZx]

19 hours ago, NOV654 said:

Not into cars myself but my dad is and I thought I'll show you his pride and joy.

C reg Ford Escort

It looks like this

Genuine S1 RS turbo? My dad had a B reg back in the day

[jetnoodles]

10 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Genuine S1 RS turbo? My dad had a B reg back in the day

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yeah

[RevoltTrain]

19 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

I forgot about the OBD system, the local auto parts stores used to let you borrow one for free, but since the pandemic....

Any suggestions on an inexpensive one? I can always pull the codes myself

I've got one of the "Fixd" sensors and it's pretty damn handy. Can normally be found on sale for $30