Carbon build up.
05-20-2003, 08:01 PM
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Carbon build up.
Ok I have carbon build up in my hoses and midas is charging me $179 just to clean it out. I am low on cash.... Is there anyway I can clean it myself??? No acura dealer close by. Also I just bought and installed a egr valve because the test said it was my egr valve..... What was causing the check engine light was carbon build up in hoses not EGR valve. 
I wasted 140 on a egr valve for nothing 
! One more question I have been driving my car for two months with carbon build up in the hoses, is it ok??? or will my engine get messed up????
I wasted 140 on a egr valve for nothing ! One more question I have been driving my car for two months with carbon build up in the hoses, is it ok??? or will my engine get messed up????
05-20-2003, 08:06 PM
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You bought an EGR? There was a recall on it, the dealer would of replaced it for free
Maybe you can get acura to remburse you!
Maybe you can get acura to remburse you!
05-20-2003, 08:26 PM
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carbon buildup?? man your not pushing the RPM's! -- i believe i read that you are suppose to get into high RPM's everyonce in a while at least to get rid of carbon buildup--
but i don't know if that works with a lot of already built up carbon???
but i don't know if that works with a lot of already built up carbon???
05-20-2003, 09:19 PM
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05-20-2003, 09:22 PM
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The diagnostic test said egr valve. I push the car sometime and I rev it couple of times but still there. I don't know exactly what hoses, probably the vacuum hose.
05-20-2003, 09:24 PM
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I bought the car used and a week later engine light came on. I took it back to the dealer and they said nothing is wrong with the car. BS!!! "it's the alarm". BS two times!
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