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Radiator Cleaning

JJBravo

By JJBravo
in 996 TT, 996 TT S, 996 GT2

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Well, I took off the bumper today to replace a chipped grill piece, and while at it, I decided to check and clean the radiators. I've already vacuumed out the rad using the wrapping paper tube attached to the shop vac, and thought it did a good job. Once I had the grill and covers off, I couldn't believe how much crap was still in there. Mine is an 03 with 19,000.... and is now about a 1/2 pound lighter.

I toook a pic of the right after I had already done the left, which was worse.

I did separate the condensors from the water rads to get the debris out of the middle of them. They were packed.

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When I finally cleaned mine, I found all the usual rubish , a dead bird and a five dollar bill. After seeing all the road side trash that gets sucked up in there I realize that clening them yearly is in the best interest of my car. It is fairly easy if you have someone to help droping the bumper so that it doesn't get scratched. Ed

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If you use a vacuum cleaner ( on a new car or a complete cleaned car ) every two weeks, it takes 5 minutes of your time after all, you can go for 80.000 Km or more and be sure that condenser and radiator life increase with approx. 50%.

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The best thing I ever did for the car is to install custom front grills. Keeps 95% of the road junk out! No effect on temp. Bad exposure on picture 1 so you can see the grills. You can see the simple attachment method in picture 3.

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