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Old 02-06-13, 02:47 AM
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My buddy just told me about some "BG Power Flush" that he had done for $85. Said they hook some stuff up to your car and run it for about an hour and dumps white smoke out. He said it was supposed to clean the carbon out of high-mileage cars. His butt dyno felt about 10hp faster on his old eclipse.

Im running a 2006 IS350 with 111k miles on it. Is carbon build up slowing my car down at all and would seafoam in the throttlebody clear that up? Do you think I should get this BG Power Flush done?

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Old 02-06-13, 04:55 AM
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I've used Seafoam in all my cars at some point in time (actually except my IS350 just because i haven't had it that long). I'd buy a $19 can of that instead of the $85 BG treatment. I have heard good things about all of the BG products though.
Old 02-06-13, 05:36 AM
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Originally Posted by gFREAKy
My buddy just told me about some "BG Power Flush" that he had done for $85. Said they hook some stuff up to your car and run it for about an hour and dumps white smoke out. He said it was supposed to clean the carbon out of high-mileage cars. His butt dyno felt about 10hp faster on his old eclipse.

Im running a 2006 IS350 with 111k miles on it. Is carbon build up slowing my car down at all and would seafoam in the throttlebody clear that up? Do you think I should get this BG Power Flush done?

TY in advance.
You have a 350 so your car wont suffer from carbon build up
Old 02-06-13, 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by bob4256
You have a 350 so your car wont suffer from carbon build up
^ That's what I was just thinking.
Old 02-06-13, 10:50 PM
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Thanks everyone, I won't be spending $85 on the flush. I used seafoam on my car about 5k miles ago. Will probably do it again as soon as the weather warms up.. can't put my IS in the garage lol too low.
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Yeah if you just seafoamed it, you definitely shouldn't need to be doing a BG Power Flush so soon lol
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