Have I been "done"?

[oscarisapc]

Just had my wife's car (petrol Ford Focus - 7 years old and never missed a beat) serviced and I was asked if I wanted the jets cleaned to reduce emissions. Sounded good to me. We go to the main dealer for service - always been OK. When I collected the car I discovered that this cleaning work consisted of something called Bioklenz poured into the petrol tank.

Does anyone know if this stuff works? I haven't been able to find anything useful on Google except references to various sorts of shampoo. I am not going to lose any sleep over £20 if it doesn't work (you win a few: you lose a few) but I would really like to know if there is any experience of this stuff.

Thanks

 

[Dieselman]

In itself it's probably not a bad idea but £20 sounds a bit rich for a dose of injector cleaner.

I hope the garage didn't say 'jets'..

 

[oscarisapc]

Correct! They didn't - they said that it was the injectors that were going to be cleaned!

Apologies too for posting this on this forum when I meant to post it on the general discussion forum. It comes from reading an interesting post and then thinking "I must post my item" before realising that I was in the wrong forum to start with.

 

[Sp!ke]

Moved for you.

 

[The Hooded Claw]

sounds like a real posh name fer REDEX to me!!!!

 

[LTD]

I would have asked what the emission levels were in respect to the guideline figures first.

Make them work for every one of your hard earned pounds.

 

[proser]

there's something about it here (part way down)

 

[oscarisapc]

Diesel bugs

Thanks for that link. BioKlenz is for diesels. Our car is petrol but maybe BioKlenz works on petrol cars in the same way. I was aware of the diesel bug and use a product called Fortron in our boat where the diesel can sit around in the tank all winter and accumulate lots of water from condensation, but I had never heard of it affecting cars. I have had a diesel Merc for several years and don't think I have been affected (yet?).
I shall just put this down to experience and not succumb quite so easily to the marketing next time. I agree with the earlier comments about asking what the normal emission performance would be in the first place, and if I had been dealing with the technicians directly that might have been possible if I had thought about it in time, but you can just imagine the blank looks you would get if you asked the average garage receptionist that question.

 

[lynall]

For £20 i wouldnt worry to much about it



Lynall

 

[wemorgan]

For £20 i wouldnt worry to much about it

I agree. Relatively, it's been a cheap lesson learnt.

 

[nick.ged]

it is a cheep lesson learnt, but dam its just another example of rip off britain, it pisses me off that everbody wants a piece, even when i bet they were charging an extortionate hourly rate as well.

i have a range rover p38 that was displaying some wierd faults. i checked on the rangy fourm, and discoverd that there was a reset function, where you put the key in the door lock, and lock and unlock it it a particular sequence, so i went to my local stealer, and asked for the code..... the MANAGER told me there was no such thing on my age of car (1999), and i should bring it in for a check up on their computer, he then said it would only take 30 mins or so!

i asked him how much the rates were, he relpied £90 per hour, i said i'd think about it, as i was sure that the fourum members wouldnt be wrong.

i went to the guy i brought the car from, who is a friend of a friend, he said he'd ring the dealer and ask, he rang, got the service desk and asked them for the "code to reset the computer on a 1999 rangy", he then gave them the reg they said hang on a second, looked on the data base, and gave him the code!

lets just say that 10 mins later there was a "sceen" in the sealers, i went ballistic! the manager was nearly in tears as i told him how many letters i was gonna send to his head office, and i'm sure at least one customer left the building

so the long and short was that the manager wanted to charge me at least 45 quid to put the key in the door and move it back and forth about eight times.