Pressurized fuel system cleaning
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Pressurized fuel system cleaning
Has anyone had this done before? My car is at the dealer right now getting the cats replaced and were asking if I wanted this done. The car has 40,500 miles on the clock. Any insight or opinions would be great.
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Originally Posted by E55AMG99
Only if they do it for free. What symptom are they trying to fix?
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They want to clean your injectors. We used to do this a lot in the 1970’s when gas would turn the spray pattern on a Bosch injector to crap. Sometime between then and now, the big gas companies decided to add detergents to gasoline. If you use premium fuel at brand name gas stations, injector cleaning is typically unnecessary. This is aside from the fact that many dealers charge $50 to run that $5 can of injector cleaner through your system, and that $200 should fall under the category of forcible devirgination, despoilment, and other acts of depredation.
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Originally Posted by MarcusF
They want to clean your injectors. We used to do this a lot in the 1970’s when gas would turn the spray pattern on a Bosch injector to crap. Sometime between then and now, the big gas companies decided to add detergents to gasoline. If you use premium fuel at brand name gas stations, injector cleaning is typically unnecessary. This is aside from the fact that many dealers charge $50 to run that $5 can of injector cleaner through your system, and that $200 should fall under the category of forcible devirgination, despoilment, and other acts of depredation.
