Just had my 2014 V-6 oil/filter changed at the local Ford dealership, and they want to clean the throttle body for $150.00. Looking online, it seems easy enough to do at home. My question is: How often does this need to be done? The car has just over 27K on it. Thanks in advance!
I've had a few new cars, and have never cleaned the throttle body on any. I've visually inspected them over the years, but none ever got anywhere the point I deemed a cleaning necessary. One car made it to 170k miles and still looked pretty damn clean to me.
I stopped doing oil changes on my cars years ago. it's just not worth the time/hassel, IMHO: Get the car up on stands, crawl underneath, wrestle with drain plug and filter, clean up the inevitable spill (some always get spilled!), find recycling center for used oil, etc, etc. If one figures in your labor to do all this, one is hardly saving any money over what the dealer charges, again IMHO. . I still do my own oil changes on my motorcyles, but that is alot less of a hassle.
More power to those that do their oil changes; it's a free country!