Has anybody here used Auto-Rx to "clean" their engine?

[moribundman]

This is relevant to the engine forum, since most 12v engines are old (I prefer to call that "well broken in" ;-) ) and could need some internal cleaning. Lately, based solely on its marketing, not on its performance, I cannot with good conscience further recommend Auto-Rx. Whether or not the product works, I do not know. I have used the product and did not notice any cleaning, but my engine was clean to begin with. Many people have been happy with this product. However, its seems to me, the Auto-Rx folks are advertising their product in a pushy manner through what appears to me like a number of stooges and shills. Of course I could be wrong about that, and it is merely my opinion, which I do not claim to represent fact. It's just my perception. Since I have over the past years occasionally recommended A-Rx as an engine cleaner, I believe I am somewhat responsible if anybody did in fact use the product, whether it worked or not. I now advise anybody who plans on using A-Rx to carefully read the product's disclaimer, or to ask to see the disclaimer before purchasing the product. Thank you for your attention!

[4AudiQ]

I used it several years ago, but I am not sure it did what it claimed.
I saw no difference.

[VAP]

the letter with no visible or otherwise perceptible results whatsoever... none, nada, zero, zilch, bupkus. Nothing good, nothing bad... just NOTHING!

[moribundman]

[moribundman]

You might offend a forum sponsor. ;-)

That sponsor might even go out of his way and call you names. I don't see how that can be good for business.

[VAP]

that single post. I do know you have struggled there from time-to-time and I have to admire your stick-toitiveness. Buncha soup (oil) Nazis!

[moribundman]

My struggles there are over. I can't endorse a product that is marketed the way A-Rx is now.

I dared say I visually didn't notice any cleaning and that I also did not notice any other benefit (such as better gas mileage or less oil leaks). That was interpreted as an offense, as a condemnation of the product. In the end I was called a liar over showing the clean pre-A-Rx "cleaning" picture of my engine. Supposedly it wasn't my engine at 122k miles, but a new engine. Go figure.

A forum sponsor will always "win" on BITOG. However, I can and do retract my (marginal) endorsement of the product simply based on what I consider shady marketing. Even if A-Rx is the Holy Grail of engine cleaners, at this point I will never again use it.

[VAP]

with some of the before/after photos of cylinder heads and valve trains from people claiming they used nothing but A-Rx, following the recommended procedure and the pics showed the results. The "before" pics showed vulgarly gunked up, sludged-out and varnished-over parts... nastiest examples I've EVER seen! I mean thes things looked like they came out of a Baghdad Taxi! Then "some" if not most of the "after" pics showed heads that were so fastidiously shiney-clean that there's no way short of acid dip, high pressure cleaning as well as mechanical hand-polishing could possibly make those parts look the way they did! I mean when an "after" pic looks dramatically better than a new "crate" sand-cast OEM head from the factory there's a weasel in the woodpile somewhere. "If it looks/sounds too good to be true" there's a always a VERY good reason for that!

I'm still surprised even today I allowed myself to buy into their hype. I know better than ANY "tune-up/clean-up-in-a-can" crappola and that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." But when buying used cars we're kinda stuck as it relates to "prevention" and have to resort to "cure."

[odelay12v]

[moribundman]

If "they" show before and after pictures, then it's evidence. If I show a before picture, then it's a lie. I'm actually surprised they didn't suggest this was a post-A-Rx treatment photo. ;-)

Anyway, it all smacks very much of fish mongering, and I don't like the smell one bit.