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I'm Italian and I've just discovered the meaning of "Italian tune up" 😂😂. In fact, in Italy we just say "driving normally".

I bought a used VW FSI 2.0T that was seriously clogged. I removed the intake, removed a lot of the carbon using soft aluminum 'chisels' about the size of a flat screwdriver, being careful to ensure the valves were closed so nothing could drop in the cylinder. Then I used a small tube attached to a vacuum to suck out the loose stuff. Then I squirted Castrol Purple cleaning fluid into the head intakes and agitated it around using an old nylon toothbrush and sucked it out a again. I repeated this for each intake throat until they and the valve heads were completely clean. It took an afternoon to clean all eight intake valve throats so they looked like new. Castrol purple is awesome! I have installed a catch can system to the PCV manifold. The car runs great now. Total cost, including the catch can. plumbing and PCV manifold mods was less than $80 and well worth it. I have yet to meet anyone that has actually achieved anything except clouds of smoke out the exhaust using these various chemical concoctions before paying a mechanic to take the manifold off and physically remove the coke. Don't waste you money. Take the time and do it yourself.

This is the "BEST" most detailed and comprehensive explanation I have ever watched. Thank you very much.

Humble Mechanic did a video on this like a year or 2 ago. Easiest thing to do is... 1. get a bunch of small zip ties 2. tape them to a small dowel that you and put in a cordless drill 3. remove intake manifold 4. with valves closed, flood the port with brake clean and let it sit for like 5 min 5. With your mcgyver'd brush in a drill, and run it in the port. 6. soak up/remove the dirty brake clean with a rag 7. repeat with the other ports (with turning the crank by hand to make sure the ports being cleaned are closed)

"Who Am I, I'm Just a Guy"- Paul, 2020

The best summary of realistic alternatives to carbon buildup I have seen. I am hoping the combination of having a Gen 3 VW, Top Tier fuel, high quality oil and mostly highway driving will reduce the probability of problems.

Super informative! Once pointed out, it seems obvious, but I'd never considered this being an issue before for direct injection. Now I know!

This channel is just pure quality by every metric.

Fantastic video! Educational, while making me laugh out loud multiple times. Great work guys!

Great video - informative and entertaining. I was hoping to see you do a walnut shell service - to see how that worked. I will check out your other videos for that though. Thanks for posting this.

Quite a few years back when i was still a stupid teenager i used to drive my car like if the road was a race track. Litteraly going as fast as the car and road would allow me to, and redlining the crap out of my engine in every gear. I drove a 1999 ford escort turbo DI 1.8 Diesel completely original except for increased boost and according adjustments to the fuel injection pump. All the factory egr and pcv system hadn't been tampered with. I once dismanteled the intake and egr valve and to my surprise they were absolutely spotless, no sign of carbon build up what so ever. I was quite impressed to say the least ! So i actually do believe in the italian tune up. Also, when ever a client comes to the garage with huge carbon/oil build up, the car is usually owned by someone who isn't driving it hard enough. The best advice (in my opinion) i can give them is to beat the hell out of their engine once in a while to keep it clean.

I didn’t see any difference.

Sarcastic entertainment and education all in one video. Great work! Really like these types of videos.

Brilliant video, thank you for including the negatives as well as the positives.

Good video, very intuitive before/after comparison, hard working and dedicated YouTuber 👏

One of DAP’s best yet! Thanks for puttIng that together.

Hey look, it's my car! (146k Mk7). Great video as always, and the 5 Guys comparison was spot on

Absolute fantastic video I own a couple of cars including a Volkswagen and what's interesting is for my Chevy everything looks pristine even with high mileage since I've gotten the vehicle I used a combination of one cup seafoam and 1/4 cup water mixed through a vacuum line while the engine is at operating temperature and it has cleaned fantastically doing this once a year but the Volkswagen you have to be way more careful what you put in it! By the way if you do my method make sure you do it really slowly