Carbon cleaning conundrum

[french-mobile]

Hi all,

Hope we're all well and not going too crazy in lockdown!

Since I've now got a little disposable income to play with I thought I'd finally bite the bullet and get my 2011 1.6 THP engine 'de-carboned'.

As much as I'd love to go visit Jamie at SPT for the Walnut cleaning, I don't think the 2 hour drive is covered under 'essential travel' at the moment.

In the process of looking for local alternatives I've stumbled across www.carbon-cleaning.co.uk and was wondering if anyone has had experience with them, since they are willing to come and do their chemical clean on my driveway. They have a YouTube video with what looks like a 1.6 THP from the engine bay and in this video they have allegedly preformed the decarboning for the manager/runner of this forum but I can't find any mention of them on here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8cKfghCa3I This is the video I mentioned.

Any thoughts or experiences you guys have would be welcome.

Cheers
T

[Chris_Blue]

Been discussed a fair bit on here, as you may know as you've mentioned SPTuning, so feel free to have a look via search

The only way to effectively clean the intake valves is either by dismantling and doing it manually, or the walnut blast.

As far as I can recall anyway- having been on here a few years

People have tried other things, but problem seems to return

[french-mobile]

Well I got it done today, there seems an improvement but as you mention I doubt its as good as the walnut blast. Once this is all over I'll try visit SPT in the future.

Now to work out if I can justify an induction kit as a treat...

[Chris_Blue]

be interesting to see how it feels in 2k miles or so