I have had great results with professional steam cleaning of the engine bay.
Both #1 boy and I paid to have our engine bays made to look almost like new. There were no adverse effects either electronically or otherwise. The steam is no more invasive than standard road spray, where a pressure washer would have lots of power behind it such that it would get really deep clay > On May 13, 2017, at 5:12 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > > The plot thickens... > > http://www.motorweek.org/features/goss_garage/engine_cleaning > > "But there is one thing you do not do, and that is you do not use a steam > cleaner. Everybody says, oh, I’m going to go get my engine steam cleaned. > Well, that’s not what you do these days because steam can actually migrate > into wire connecters under the hood, and once that happens, once it’s inside, > it condenses and now you have water inside that connecter. That causes > corrosion. The corrosion causes check engine lights and performance problems > and failed emissions and so on. So it’s garden hose or a pressure washer, > never a steam cleaner. If you keep the under hood clean, all of these things > will not be an issue." > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
