engine cleanliness

stevelee1971

I bought a car last day. Today, I saw the car need engine cleanliness on its safety inspection report. Who can tell me the meaning of engine cleanliness? is it a big problem? do I have to do that? direct consequence if not to do that? Manifold condition of the car go bad. I need to change a new one? Who can tell me where to repair car?
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stevelee1971

NOBODY KNOWS OR MY QUESTION IS TOO STUPID? COME ON, JUST HELP ME!

社员都是向阳花

don't know what so called engine cleanliness means, most likely, I guess it's just engine fresh. it's simple and easy, just pour a bottle of fresh fluid, then run the engine for like 20 minutes. after that, change engine oil,  that's all.

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HRU

Steeve,
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2 z3 [/ i" A, UI've got some difficulties to read your questions. To my best knowledge, it seems that the cleanning of your engine is a must if it is an old and dirty car.
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$ j. B% I( }2 ~8 Y  ?7 N通常保险公司会要求你做保前检测。机械师往往拒绝肮脏的发动机检测。这如同你到医院去检查身体，往往洗个澡是必要的和礼貌的一样。
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. J$ ^/ A# n3 v你可以自己在洗车点清洗发动机，费用是10元左右。但是要注意高压水枪一定要离发动机部件一英尺以上，以防止水流冲进皮带轮和电机的轴承里面，造成永久损害。另外，可能洗完车后发动困难，是由于水汽进入火花塞或者分电器造成的，干了就好了。但如果你发动不了车子，就会尴尬的让拖车拖出washbay, 多花50元。（洗车老板可不想让你占着位置妨碍挣钱）:(
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) o& X0 M- ?& E% s专业清洗大约40元。
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manifold 指的是发动机到三元催化器的部分。这部分更换的话大约200元。（大部分国产车。老旧德国，日本车贵很多，没有零件）

希望你新买的旧车好运！

社员都是向阳花

it could be a engine shampoo as well, like the gentleman mentioned before, but what i'm trying to say is if the mechanic refuse to do a inspection on your vehicle only because of a dirty engine, just walk out and find another shop down the street then. they always wanna oversell their service that you don't even need.

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stevelee1971

我的safety inspection报告里， 在发动机项下，有engine cleanliness一项，说 unsatisfactionary/defect, requires early attention.

stevelee1971

我猜可能是清洗发动机

stevelee1971

我买的车以前manifold部分坏了，车主去修过，花了100多。但在safety inspection中，exhaust项下评述为unsatisfactionary/defect, requires early attention。不知道严重否？

HRU

你的车子如果要取得保险，继而办牌照，通常需要保前检测。 并不是所有的项目都要完成。安全是保险公司关心的。他们不想支付由于机械故障导致的事故费用。
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我还是坚持你应当清洗发动机。好处是可以方便的观察有什么问题，例如漏油，漏液，特殊非正常磨损，腐蚀等等。shampoo 发动机并不昂贵，人还时不时洗澡呢，何况车呢。它是你的朋友啊。
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你应当打电话问保险公司是否他们接受你的检测报告。如果他们说ok, 做你的生意，哪怕你的车子再脏，manifold 再破，那是你自己的事，和公共安全和保险风险无关。机械师拒绝检查肮脏的发动机和oversale 无关。我知道好医生一定会拒绝用不带手套的手指探查病人的肛门的。:lol: 这和医生同手套厂是否有关系并无干系，他们的职业尊严让他们如此行事。

HRU

刚才有点开玩笑的意思，别介意。
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我们这儿在做车子检测之前，要清洗发动机。我非常了解你的意思，我以前也是这么认为的。可是专业的机械师通常有专业设备来观察渗漏状况（例如偏振灯，对付漏油，漏液非常有效。和紫外灯检查体液一样有效）
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0 g/ z4 C* }4 h8 Y- }( }我亲眼目睹我们的机械师要求清洗一辆2004年 alero ，以便确认减震渗漏情况。事实证明球头确实渗漏，而脏的时候他看不出来。