Mercedes C220 Bluetec Estate

markwilliams82 · 4 Feb 2020 at 17:38

Have had a C220 estate for the last couple of months with 90k miles and love it; however due to the mileage I was thinking of giving it a tune up... I've seem companies do mobile carbon clean and remaps

Are these any good and are there any recommendations in the Birmingham area?

a1ex2001 · 4 Feb 2020 at 20:17

It’s got 90k on it not 900k save your money!

Scania · 5 Feb 2020 at 09:25

Remap yes, carbon clean no.

markwilliams82 · 8 Feb 2020 at 22:17

Scania said:
Remap yes, carbon clean no.

are they not worth it or beneficial?

Scania · 8 Feb 2020 at 23:07

markwilliams82 said:
are they not worth it or beneficial?

Very dubious of them personally, never seen it done to a commercial vehicle, to my mind if such a process worked and had positive benefits it would be a standard practice as part of routine maintenance within transportation, it isn’t.

jpaul · 9 Feb 2020 at 17:43

Did you already, join in, in, Shell v-power-anuary ?

233 · 9 Feb 2020 at 17:49

do an annual carbon clean on our taxis definitely makes a difference but ours are doing anywhere between 50/100k per year

and yes get it mapped you'll notice a huge difference, (i assume its the 170bhp bluetec c220? should see 45bhp and 70 lbs/ft from a map

markwilliams82 · 9 Feb 2020 at 20:27

233 said:
do an annual carbon clean on our taxis definitely makes a difference but ours are doing anywhere between 50/100k per year

and yes get it mapped you'll notice a huge difference, (i assume its the 170bhp bluetec c220? should see 45bhp and 70 lbs/ft from a map

Yeah thats the one; sounds a good gain from a remap. Company in Worcester called Ace Remaps have sounded good so may give them a call for it.

Scania · 10 Feb 2020 at 08:51

233 said:
do an annual carbon clean on our taxis definitely makes a difference but ours are doing anywhere between 50/100k per year

and yes get it mapped you'll notice a huge difference, (i assume its the 170bhp bluetec c220? should see 45bhp and 70 lbs/ft from a map

Is it perhaps the type of driving your taxis do that brings benefit from carbon cleaning?

I asked when I took my truck for its inspection on Friday if Scania ever recommended carbon cleaning and he said they don’t and he couldn’t remember having dealt with a DPF issue either, even on trucks that live in city traffic as I image most of your taxis do ...?