Best Fuel Injector Cleaners

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In your experience what are the Best Fuel Injector Cleaners on the market? Please share your story and results and which one you think is best.


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Gasoline. Fuel system cleaners in my opinion do more harm than good.

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I've always filled my vehicles with a high quality fuel, and modern high quality fuels have enough detergents in them to mitigate nasty buildup over time.

We'll see how this fares with direct injected engines though - the two cars in our fleet are now direct injected motors, and from what I understand, the traditional "blow the carbon out of the block by revving it out every now and then" doesn't work the same way with DI motors.

That said, I could be talking out my a**, but I remember reading up on my old MazdaSpeed3 and coming away with that.

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You're correct about that. The I take valves don't have fuel passing over them so they tend to have carbon build ip more than most engines.

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BG44K.

An occasional dose of this (no more than two cans in a 3000 mile period) has done wonders for whenever my engine starts acting up.

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I use Lucas Fuel Injector Cleaner and Upper Cylinder Lubricant 1-2 times per year. It's the only one i've trusted for years. The rest of that garbage on the shelf can sit there. BG44K is great too from what I hear though.

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mac, yup I'm waiting for a "new" formulation - designated especially for DIG INJECTORS specifically. (mine Turbo too).Anyone here seen anything out there? And who knows this early in the game if "Snake oil " or not :rolleyes:

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szh wrote:
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BG44K.
This. I've used it since 2002 with great results.

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Seafoam. Also works as a fuel stabilizer if the car sits, and works wonderfully to blow crud out of old engines when spoon fed through a vacuum port.


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