Hi all,
I have an 07 IS250 Prestige I bought earlier this year. Great car, very smooth and excellent build quality. About a month ago, the car started idling weirdly, revs going up and down when stopped at the lights. Also felt very sluggish on acceleration. I put it down to the common 'carbon build up' issue these cars have due to direct injection. I researched some options on Lexus forums being: seafoam, walnut cleaning, etc & completely taking the intake manifold apart as some threads suggested.
Having seen mixed reviews, and not wanting to take my engine apart, I saw a place advertise that that does Hydrogen carbon cleaning. I thought, meh, give it a try, cost me $150 and the process took an hour. They use a hydrogen power decarbonizing machine, and basically connect it up through the intake pipe. Being sceptical of everything, as I naturally am, I took it for a drive and to my amazement it worked fantastically! No idle issues, much much better acceleration and no hesitation anymore when I needed to punch it. My mechanic was even surprised how clean the engine looked now when I took it in for a service.
I'm not associated with them by anyway, but seeing so many threads on carbon I thought you guys should really know about it. If you look up 'Carbon Cleaning Australia' it'll take you to their website, which explains everything better than I can. I had it done by a rep in Adelaide, but I think they've got people doing it around Australia? Anyway, if you have the dreaded carbon build up issue, I highly recommend them!!
Also! they guy that came out cleaned up the MAF sensor too, which he showed me was a bit dirty, I didn't even think of that.
Cheers.