# Hydrogen service? **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** nissan, frontier\ **Created:** [November 15, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hydrogen-service/187420 "2022-11-15T16:53:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hydrogen-service/187420/1 "2022-11-15T16:53:05Z")
A guy on a Nissan Frontier forum I visit posted about some dealer recommended service on his 2018 Frontier. One service was a Hydrogen Service. Everyone thought the dealer meant Nitrogen service for his tires, so he scanned the dealers proposal and it did indeed list Hydrogen Service. There is no explanation of what it is, just 24HY (gas) Hydrogen Service total $209.44. I even Googled this and nothing came up and as an owner of a Nissan Frontier, it is not in the maintenance schedule. BTW, this is for his upcoming 60K service, 4.0L engine. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hydrogen-service/187420/2 "2022-11-15T16:56:40Z")
As a fellow Frontier owner, I believe this is a complete scam. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hydrogen-service/187420/3 "2022-11-15T16:57:41Z")
So has everyone else, me included, on the forum. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hydrogen-service/187420/4 "2022-11-15T17:48:40Z")
Here you go- [Hydrogen Fuel Service Program for Dealers - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruay5Pbc85E) ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hydrogen-service/187420/5 "2022-11-15T18:25:52Z")
What a SCAM!! I almost spit my coffee onto the computer screen. The claim that putting hydrogen into the combustion chamber will ‘turn carbon deposits back into oil’ is nuts. Guess what hydrogen does in a combustion chamber - it combusts, forming water. I guess somebody had a bunch of HHO generators sitting around… ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hydrogen-service/187420/6 "2022-11-15T20:00:58Z")
Another “wallet vac”. Back in the old days of carburetors, we used to take a kids squirt gun and squirt water into the carb of a running engine. It would turn to steam and clean the piston tops and combustion chambers (and spark plug tips). Pull the plugs right after and they looked like they just came out of the sand blaster. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hydrogen-service/187420/7 "2022-11-15T20:51:51Z")
> [@keith](#): > > It would turn to steam and clean the piston tops and combustion chambers (and spark plug tips). I can verify this based on a failing head gasket in my 89 Suburban. I suspected a bad head gasket when I pulled the plugs for a compression test. The offending 2 cylinder’s plugs looked brand new. The combustion chambers and piston tops were clean when the head came off. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hydrogen-service/187420/8 "2022-11-16T17:28:05Z")
Yeah, back in the day we used to simply put water spray into the intake if the engine starting pinging due to carbon buildup. But you had to be smart about it. Now, with this ‘miracle of modern science’ you avoid that risk and it is much more efficient- it has two hoses, one pressure and one vacuum. One goes to the engine and one goes to the customer pocket…