Intake cleaning

jwarfield · #1 (**permalink**) 12-01-2008, 10:43 PM

My wife's got an 07 Maxima and the dealer wants to charge a ridiculous amount for the intake/plenum cleaning. I use Sea Foam on my jeeps but I'm afraid to do that to her car. Is there something I can use to pull through the vacuum lines and/or put onto the TB that will yield the same results as the dealers procedure? Thanks in advance....

J

sergey85 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-01-2008, 11:43 PM

why do u want to clean it???

jwarfield · #3 (**permalink**) 12-02-2008, 02:19 AM

The dealer recommended it, is it worth it at 47K miles? I usually run intake cleaner every time I tune up my jeeps but I'm new to Nissan's and want to keep her car in 100% condition.

sergey85 · #4 (**permalink**) 12-02-2008, 02:28 AM

i wouldnt worry about that for now. just make sure u change the airbox filter and rung good fuel and add fuel system cleaner evrynow and then, and change your oil on time and u should be good.. i havent heard of newer maxima running the seafoam but i wouldnt. it should be ok. try searching around on maxima.org on that or post and ask but i never used that stuff and never really seen anyone suggest intake cleanup as a maint.

Little's07 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 04:16 AM

Are you sure they werent recommending injector cleaning service? Thats sound more likely, but I dunno.

sergey85 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 09:27 PM

hell i wouldnt even do that at the dealer, get some techron and call it a day