Guys and Gals

as far as im aware my car has NEVER had an engine flush to clear out all the muck since it was made in 1998
my oil change is being done on Tuesday afternoon, what are your thoughts on any type of additive that you put in with an oil change?
i heard that doing an engine oil flush is more trouble than its worth, my village mechanic friend says that he had a few customers who asked him to perform this "which he did" and after doing it, the car did not run as nice as before! in his words "sounded like a bag of bolts" lol

VX always charge us for flushing with forte when doing the oil change in a service. The combination increases MPG but this is on a diesel. If the system has not had additives/flushing it's sometimes not recommended.

From past experience on old cars... many years back ..not the meega.....  flushing can cause more problems not less.

The theory is this .... the old gunge in a sump tends to collect and stick like s*** to a blanket, so is relatively stable, oil changes just leave this gunge in place, relatively inert.

You come along and bung in a flushing compound which starts to eat at the accumulated gunge, so loosening it, some will depart when the flushing oil is drained, but there is a  VERY HIGH CHANCE that some loosened muck remains, or comes loose after, if you get my drift.

This then circulates with the new oil until it finds a nice small oilway to lodge in... now we have a blocked oilway and high wear ... probably not visible as a change (rise) in oil pressure.. even if we had oil pressure gauges .. which we don't...

As already stated .. regular oil changes with decent quality oil will leave the congealed lump alone and avoid these problems.

HTH

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it is nice to know that you've done it yourself

Don't touch additives..... just regular changes with 10/40 semi synth.

none of those are a true "flushing compound" .. for that you need :

http://www.wynns.be/product.aspx?nav=1&g=1&s=25&b=512&p=51265&l=EN

or

http://www.wynns.be/product.aspx?nav=1&g=1&s=25&b=51272&p=51272&l=EN

if you still wish to go ahead ..

that would be great mate!

how much wil all the parts and your time cost me?

i still dont even know IF my rocker gaskets are actually knackered, seems to be ok since i drained the coolant, the smell of burning seems to have calmed down a lot and i havent seen the dreaded "steam" for a few days
infact, looking at my engine yesterday, there was a black pipe touching the silver part of the engine, dont know what you call it! the silver bit thats right in the middle, lol and it dont sem so bad, dont hold me to that! i could be just praying!

a few beers?

no probs, will give you sum cash instead, otherwise, you and i will be in the friggin village pub all day! i like my Lager!! lol