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Just changed my mind about injector cleaning after talking to a guy in Phoenix

I was dead set that those fuel injector cleaning machines were a waste of shop time. Last month I overheard an old timer named Pete at a parts counter in Phoenix telling me how he runs a BG service on every high-mileage truck that comes in. He showed me a printout of before and after flow rates on a 2015 Ram 2500. Dropped from 12% imbalance to under 2% for just $180 labor. That got me thinking and now I offer it as a $200 service. Has anyone else had good results with a specific brand of cleaning machine?

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vera_lewis4d ago

Watching a buddy of mine with a shop in Tucson swear by the same BG stuff actually. He told me he did a Ford F-150 with 140k miles that was stumbling at idle and the owner was ready to dump it for a new truck. After a cleaning it ran smooth enough that the guy kept it another three years. That's actually what got me curious about trying it on my own van. I think the key is the follow up flow test though, that's what Pete showed you that made the numbers real. If you don't test before and after you're just guessing if it actually helped or not.

jana_ellis954d ago

Huh, I really don't think a flow test tells you much if the injectors were already dirty though.