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Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:02 am
by Noyjatat
Well dropped the car in to MRC today for a full carbon clean and a gearbox map tweak.
Will post the results next weekend after I have picked it back up.
Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:17 am
by RIV
This will be interesting to see, I reckon it's going to have some build up, but not as bad as the b7
Place ya bets please
I'm saying yes!!
Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:47 am
by daytonamart
Slightly less build up I reckon, but still worth a clean up.
Looking forward to results.
Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:00 am
by kmpowell
I'll definitly be interested to see the before and after results of this. Can you also describe your driving habits in your summary.

Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:13 am
by RIV
I'll definitly be interested to see the before and after results of this. Can you also describe your driving habits in your summary.
Like James may

Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:40 am
by Brooner
let us know your mileage and fuel regularly used too
cheers
Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:12 pm
by Noyjatat
I bought the car at 34,000 miles in late July. Now on 42,000. I poodle around town, am foot heavy on slip roads and every couple of weeks get it up to around 140 on the airfield.
Not sure how the previous owners used or abused it but based on lack of stone chips alone and no signs of respray I would say they didn't use it a whole lot.
Cheers Silas. This coming from the guy who is scared to race his missus in her pocket rocket.
Just to be clear this is in an RS5 but there seems to be a much larger following on the RS4 side of things so figured I would post it here as it's my understanding it is the same engine.
Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:33 pm
by RIV
Cheers Silas. This coming from the guy who is scared to race his missus in her pocket rocket.
Only because I don't want her to kerb an alloy
Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:41 pm
by Noyjatat
Is there any curbs at Santa Pod?
Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:03 pm
by RIV
Is there any curbs at Santa Pod?
a woman can always find a curb
Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:28 pm
by MikeFish
RIV wrote:Is there any curbs at Santa Pod?
a woman can always find a curb
Kerbs are the only things that stop them totalling the whole side of the car so no kerbs equals write off!
Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:05 pm
by RIV
Impressive gains on the car gaz, be interested to hear your thoughts

Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:18 pm
by Noyjatat
Cheers buddy. Doug said he would take pics so I will post those when I get them to give you guys a rough idea of what sort of buildup you will have after 40,000 miles. For those of you that keep them for that long that is

Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:47 pm
by smudge
RIV wrote:Impressive gains on the car gaz, be interested to hear your thoughts

Did I miss something?
Re: Carbon Buildup? Let's Find Out.
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:20 pm
by Noyjatat
Sorry buddy. It's on the RS5 section. Posted here as it's pretty much the same engine and figured the carbon info would be useful with the growing number of RS4 owners.