Injectors

[Deutscher]

Hi all,

I run my car on dual fuel, I've had gas for a year now and hardly ran it on petrol (only on start up), anyway ... one day my car wouldn't start ... got no fuel to rails etc ... changed fuel pump and filter (pump filter had massive hole)... car still wouldn't start.. had fuel at rails etc but wouldn't start. Took to mechanic and injectors were pulsing but not a lot (injectors were blocked)... got quoted between $450-600 to get them cleaned.

The injectors were so bad my car wouldn't start, I'd have to rev my car on gas until 3000RPMS and then change to fuel and keep revs above 3000 or it'll die. I brought Injector Cleaner for $5 (Calibre, on sale, normally $10), put in fuel tank, went on freeway (on gas), get to 80 (freeway 100), change to petrol and floor it to 100 (to keep it alive), slow down and repeat. It was very rough at first .. fuel wasn't igniting a lot of time (struggling a lot)... after about 50Km's started getting better. 100Km's down the track was fine ... and drove another 50Kms home.. started it up in the morning and was fine.

My point ... before spending $450+ to get injectors cleaned, try using the Injector Cleaner for $5. It worked for me! Everyone said it wouldn't work etc ... proved them wrong and saved $445! Don't think those little bottles are useless ... if it didn't work it's $5 down the drain big whoop.

(I put another Injector Cleaner in new tank of fuel, just for extra clean cause I hadn't used petrol lines in ages)

[DannyboyDS]

firstly OMFG $450 to get the injectors cleaned? thats like rape or murder.

The injectors would have been blocked from carbon blowing back up the inlet, without petrol flow to clean them out I guess.

Thats still a pretty steep price, considering 90% of mechanics simply run a sollution directly into your fuel rail to clean the injectors, you can get full reco V6 injectors off of ebay for around $120