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I have had my Mitsu Triton for nearly 6 years now and never had the motor cleaned and it's starting to look pretty dirty, mainly dust I would say. Are the regular car wash places OK for an engine clean or should it be done by a specialist? I don't want water getting into the electrical system obviously.

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1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

 

The Triton is a good vehicle, Mitsubishi IMO is an underrated brand. Owned one myself in Australia.

Never had one problem in 6 years.

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It's always funny to see cheap cars being pampered when some owners of very expensive cars would never do such a stupid thing as cleaning an engine...

 

 

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9 hours ago, l4ml4m said:

It's always funny to see cheap cars being pampered when some owners of very expensive cars would never do such a stupid thing as cleaning an engine...

 

 

Why bother to clean the outside, doesn't make the car run any better, does it?

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19 hours ago, giddyup said:

Why bother to clean the outside, doesn't make the car run any better, does it?

 

When the exterior costs 8 MB trust me, you care about it !

 

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10 minutes ago, l4ml4m said:

 

When the exterior costs 8 MB trust me, you care about it !

 

Hahaha... so $250,000 USD just for the bodywork... plus at least the same for an interior... and it must be double that for superior quality engine, trans, brakes and suspension... so your daily driver in Thailand is a million dollar US car. Yeah right.

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1 hour ago, mikebike said:

Hahaha... so $250,000 USD just for the bodywork... plus at least the same for an interior... and it must be double that for superior quality engine, trans, brakes and suspension... so your daily driver in Thailand is a million dollar US car. Yeah right.

HaHa.    We both know what he ment was.     Pay 8M for a car and you really do care about the paintwork.   But good maths on your part though. ????

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50 minutes ago, PFMills said:

Written by a man who wants to clean his <deleted> engine

If you'd bothered to read the posts you would have seen I was replying to 14m14m comments who suggested it was a waste of money cleaning the engine, so try and keep up.

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48 minutes ago, PFMills said:

HaHa.    We both know what he ment was.     Pay 8M for a car and you really do care about the paintwork.   But good maths on your part though. ????

You care about the paintwork but not the engine? Makes sense, not.

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3 hours ago, l4ml4m said:

 

When the exterior costs 8 MB trust me, you care about it !

 

a lot of money for a Trabant, but i think most of it was import duty

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7 hours ago, giddyup said:

If you'd bothered to read the posts you would have seen I was replying to 14m14m comments who suggested it was a waste of money cleaning the engine, so try and keep up.

I did read that post   It was wrong of me to wind you up ????   sorry. ????

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On 1/4/2021 at 6:44 AM, bodga said:

Im  not they often miss  places and then  just wipe  the dirt  over  like a scouring pad as they dry it, never take mine there anymore, do it myself, takes  about 3 hours with polishing once a month

 

Correct ! Only people who really know nothing can think that ANY car wash is food here.

Yes, they are good to remove the bird poops by making swirls, this is all they can do.

 

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On 1/2/2021 at 10:10 AM, giddyup said:

Never had one problem in 6 years.

And this helps the OP.... how ?

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The better car cleaning places will do an engine clean. Our Toyota came up like new when we had it done over on the dark side 3 months ago. Doesn’t cost a lot either. 

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The pressure washer (initially with soap) at a car wash would suffice for a dirty motor (mostly dust, mud and other non oil based grime) however it won't do such a good job on grease.!
25 years in the garage, we found a 50/50 mix of kero (parafin in UK) and CT14 cleaner made an excellent degreaser.

Yes, liberally sprayed on a warm motor, left to penetrate for 5 - 10 minutes and washed off with the pressure washer.
In the early days pre 2000 with kettering ingition (coil, points and distributors) we occasionally had to blow the water out of the distributor cap with compressed air, but these days the waterproofing of the ECU and other associated electronics is so good you could probably drive them underwater (with snorkel) without any problem.
I've never had a problem pressure washing a modern engine.!

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I took my 400 cc motorbike to one of the local cleaning places and it looked brand new after the finished with it. It only cost 70 Baht. Unfortunately the tachometer and various dial lights no longer worked after their vigorous pressure cleaning.

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