Hi All,

I want to give me car a good clean. No... I'm not talking about the body work or interior, I mean the engine.

 

My car is 12 years old now and I would like to start cleaning the connectors and making small replacements as I am running idle at about 1,000 rpm and seem to be getting less than 200 miles per tank even on long motorway journeys. I know I should be at an idle of 750 ish, but I don't just want to turn my idle down as I think this will effect performance (correct me if I'm wrong).

 

Although after running an ECU diag, I got the all clear code (55). I only ran Mode II checks and will run Mode I a little later.

I want to start by cleaning the connectors for:

coolant temp sensor,

coil packs,

power transistor unit,

fuel injectors,

mass air-flow sensor,

coil packs,

power transistor unit,

crank angle sensor,

throttle position sensor

Basically all the connector sensors that report back to the ECU. I also want to clean my fuel injector connectors.

Do you think that this will make a lot of difference to my idle and performance or should I replace the EGR, PCV's and Fuel Pressure Regulator and Fuel Dampener as well ?

 

Any other tips or tricks that you know of could help me out ?

Have a great MANUAL christmas guyZ ;) Just got told today that we're down to skeleton staff after 1 so that's when I go home :D Good job they decided to tell us otherwise I'd have been here till 5 :o

 

Not long to get p1ssed now :D

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

I got a ext message from the missus at 12:00. She wanted me to get chicken and some brussel sprouts. I finished work at 12:00 but it's 18:00 now and I've just got in.

 

Dam it's hard to find a chicken. Every pub I went to didn't sell them. I'm all up ith the christmas Spirit now if you know what I mean. I had to go to M & S in the end.

 

Ho ho ho