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A while back I was lucky enough to be gifted some BG44K Fuel System Cleaner<\/a><\/strong> for free and just never got around to using it until tonight. I received a call from my brother asking me if I had a pump. when he said this I was thinking along the lines of a foot pump what you would inflate a bike tyre with.<\/p>\n

When he explained it was to suck fuel through the fuel filter for his partners car, I understood what he meant. I mentioned I did have a Mityvac <\/a><\/strong>which was designed to pull the fuel through the lines by vacuum so he came over.<\/p>\n

We went into my garage and got out the tools and I helped him with the work. He disconnected the hoses for the fuel filter on his partners car and we held them to one side. I asked why he didn’t pre-fill the filters like we normally do. The specific fuel filter for that car is a sealed unit. So you have to pull the fuel through the lines via vacuum<\/p>\n

We hooked up the Mityac, luckily all parts were there. I thought I’d lost it and proceeded to draw Vacuum through the fuel lines. After pumping for around 15 secs fuel started being sucked up. We pulled enough fuel to fill the bottle and then connected the hoses. The car started first time. My brother mentioned it was a “good piece of kit”. Indeed it is and it’s all mine.<\/p>\n

He filled up the car with the BG44K Fuel System Cleaner and after he told me I mentioned I still had mine. He emptied the entire can into my tank, I went to the garage and filled it with some Shell V-Power Diesel then took it for a blast. The car determinately sounded a lot more gutsy and seemed to pull a lot harder too.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of stigmata surrounding power products like BG44K saying people will believe it has power when there’s none. Although there may be some truth to this, I’ve drove my car for 3 years, I know how it responds.<\/p>\n

It’s definitely responding better than before. The fuel system cleaner was carried out on my car at 77,900 miles and given that my car was meant to have “full” service history from new from VW I wouldn’t be surprised if it developed gremlins along the way<\/p>\n

My car had the old cleaner (BG44K) – which is suitable for Petrols & Diesels. However the company have now released a diesel specific fuel system cleaner called BG244<\/a><\/strong> which does the job. The product isn’t cheap (retails for around \u00a320) but it’s been proven to work and de-coke your engines. I may look into seafoaming <\/a><\/strong>at a later date but as I regularly do an Italian Tune-Up<\/em><\/strong><\/a> on my car it doesn’t get the chance to accumulate soots and burnt on carbon<\/p>\n

You can read more about the BG series of products on the company website via the links below aswell as their long list of fuel cleaning products<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n