I need some guidance. My dealer wants to clean my fuel injectors for $180 and my throttle sleeve for $130. Is this a reasonable service recommendation? I have 49, 000 miles on my 05 MT. I did not ask for service on my injectors or my accelerator/throttle sleeve. Is this on the up and up or is it a chance for the dealer to make some extra money? Thanks for any thoughts

 

Since I have 109,000 miles on my 04 and have not had that work done I would say you don't need it. You can also ask the dealer to show you in the manual where that work is even mentioned.

 

Best way to clean the injectors is to redline often with premium fuel, and to top that off, I alternately put the Chevron fuel injection cleaners every 10K..but..that is just me. As Expo stated, he didn't do it and is fine (probably because he tracks and redline often)

 

No need.

What the dealership will do is dump a bottle of El cheapo STP fuel injector cleaner into your gas tank, which is selling for 3.99 outside, and then they will call it a day.

So no, dont do it. no need. Save the money, buy a bottle of Redline or Chervon, next time before you refuel, dump the bottle into your gas tank, fill it up, and zoom zoom

 

Next time they offer the service ask them if they can recalibrate your flux-capicitator.

Services like these are for the morons that dont know any better. As others have said pour in some of the cleaner you can buy at the local auto store and WHAM ya performed the same service. That and just redline the car atleast once every few days (or multiple times like some of us hehe..) and you wont have a issue

 

My dealer wanted to do something similar, though their's was a "Complete Induction System cleaning" using BG's Complete Induction System cleaner and equip. Had 'em do it while they were swapping engines, didn't really notice any difference. Will just use the Redline stuff from now on though, its what I used on my previous vehicle.

 

seafoam once a year and im good....

 

Of course they want to The sales department barely breaks even...the dealerships make most of there money from the service department...doing things like injector cleaning......engine flushes...brake cleaning etc most of which are not necessary........

 

i clean my own injectors .... but i have the lil gizmo that does it .... (me and my friends race bikes and race fuel corrodes injectors)

if you use super -- once every 2 years is fine .... if you use reg. unleaded .. yeah try every 6 months hahah............ most reg gas sucks

 

I use Chevron fuel injection cleaner before every oil change.

 

i use redline stuff, tried chevron once, but I mean, it cost almost double, I'll stick with redline

 

Well, it didn't sound right when the service manager proposed it over the phone and I thought I would ask the "cult" for advice. I'll continue to redline every other day and put in a bottle of injector cleaner with my next fill-up. Thanks to all who responded.