Using Auto-RX...EGR Check Engine Light Went Away

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I've been ignoring the Service Engine Soon light for a couple of years, at least. I checked the code early on, it was an EGR valve code.

About 350 miles into the ARX treatment I noticed the light had gone out. Several hundred more miles and the light has yet to come back on. I've erased the codes and will check them again in a month or better.

That saved me more than the $80 a new EGR valve costs. I'd say I'm tickled so far.

Can't wait to see if my windows get cleaner and the odometer starts going backwards...
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Auto-Rx cleans internal sensors as well as everything else in your interal engine parts. It has to be very frustrating to sell oil or solvent products and post under assumed name to discredit a product that works and cleans metal better than anything ever sold and with a money back guarantee no less.
 
Do you know what exactly the code said? Was it a no flow or too much flow code?

Before I physically removed the intake plenum and cleaned out all the s*** in the EGR passages to make the check engine light go off for good, it had been on for 6 years. After seeing those deposits, there was no way for anything to flow from the EGR and into the intake.

During those 6 years, a few times the light went completely off, and stayed off for a few hundred miles. I have no idea why, unless it was the fuel injector cleaner I was using, causing less emissions or cleaning out the passages.

Frank, I don't see that anyone was discrediting your product.
 
Is your cars name "Christine"?

no, mine is named dodge intrepid and i wish i had tried auto-rx before having the chrysler dealer fix the egr valve which they had to work on twice to get that check engine light to stay off.
 
I'm going to be accused of bashing RX again but is there anyone here besides me who understands how EGR systems and OBD works? Perhaps they'd like to offer even a far out mechanism behind how this product could repair an EGR code. Amazing what some people will believe. Or exploit.
 
I just don't understand how something in your oil could clean the EGR, which is exhaust gas, no oil flowing into the EGR right? I don't think any EGR sensor would be inside the engine or exposed to the oil right? someone correct me if I'm wrong here.
 
If an engine being treated with Auto-Rx is burning oil, is there anything in Auto-Rx that could have an effect on something downstream, say an oxygen sensor?
 
even if the engine was buring oil, the only posoible way ARX could have cleaned the EGR is if unburned oil was being expelled from the cylinder and was luckily being recirculated. Now if the OP's car is anything like the couple of maxima's whose EGR pipes were clogged, as confederate said, there is no way in #@$%! ARX could clean it. If it takes 1500 miles to clean a crankcase and there is a rich constant supply of ARX it would take 10 times teh amount of miles to celan that EGR. Those deposits are as dense as you can imagine.
 
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Those deposits are as dense as you can imagine.

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I can vouch for that. I had a Mitsu Montero several years ago with clogged EGR channels. The carbon was so dense, I couldn't even chip it with a chisel. The entire intake was useless for EGR. Good ol' days of the feedback carbs.
 
It would be ridiculous to say that there is no way his ARX treatment could have helped with his light. Who knows if the sensor was cleaned or cleaning opened up the valve or something else, and that led to the light going off. The fact is the EGR's start to have problems because of sludge buildup, so why the stretch that a sludge cleaner would help.
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My question would be more of maybe it was just the oil change in general that could have helped too. Anyhow, you can't ingore the fact that the light was on for a long time, and after an Autorx treatment it is off. So it is at a minimum, possible it was helped by the ARX.

This is very similar to the effect ARX had in my tranny. Maybe the same thing would have happened if I used a different cleaner, but to ignore the fact that ARX has cleaning abilty is pure ignorance. All I see is more excuses why people aren't even verifying thier invoice, making their claims unfounded. Funny how more and more newbie posters refuse to even get their refund, lol...LMAO...
 
Do you know what an EGR is? Do you realize that there is no lubrication passing through the EGR system? Unless ARX can withstand fuel chamber combustion and exhaust temperatures, there is no way for it to get to the EGR system. And again so little of it could have gotten there (if those impossible circumstances above were somehow overcome) it would be impossible for it to have cleaned it in 350 miles. Stop being a die-hard fan and ignoring the facts.

and Allen, i had to dig at it with a pick and try to soak it. Berryman worked pretty good but it still took forever.
 
The same thing was said when my slipping tranny was fixed in less than 350 miles, but I cannot help the fact it wasn't slipping anymore, lol. What, would you like me to lie and say it is still slipping, lol. I think I'd rather post the truth, and if that makes you think I'm a die hard fan so be it. The Autorx hatin from the same person is getting old.
 
i understand how auto-rx could fix a tranny that slips from a gummed up servo or tv but the only explanation for the egr that makes sense to me is the junk plugging the passages was loose and cleared itself.or was borderline and weather conditions changed enough to shut it off.

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The same thing was said when my slipping tranny was fixed in less than 350 miles, but I cannot help the fact it wasn't slipping anymore, lol. What, would you like me to lie and say it is still slipping, lol. I think I'd rather post the truth, and if that makes you think I'm a die hard fan so be it. The Autorx hatin from the same person is getting old.

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I understand the position of the skeptics. "If it didn't happen to me and I didn't see it, it can't happen." I'm that way sometimes, too.

But I never actually SAID that ARX is what did it.

I change my oil regularly, and with Mobil1 oil. Have for at least the last 30k miles. Before that it was a hodgepodge of oils, mostly synthetic since 20k miles. I'd have to look at the records, but I don't want to bore you with the particulars.

The fact remains that the light has been on for two years at least and went off 350 miles after ARX was put in the crankcase. I have done nothing else but plugs since the light came two years ago. Certainly, I'm not going to suggest new plugs fixed it.

I don't think it too far a stretch to suggest combustion by-products containing ARX were introduced into the EGR valve and had some effect. Nor would it be too far a stretch to suggest that my EGR valve wasn't as bad as some have said theirs was.

Did the Seafoam treatment I did last summer have anything to do with it? Beats me. It didn't do anything to the light then.

I will not stand here and say for certain it was ARX that did it. But, I've done nothing else to alleviate the condition. What would you suggest it might be?

And, for the record, I have no idea whether ARX is any good or not. I've only had it in for about 600 miles now.
 
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