fuel injector cleaner... damage to injectors?

[amc49]

I have no shop and not even a garage and taking care of 3 and often 4 cars year round for over 30 years and I've not ever paid for any type of car or motorcycle work in my entire life. Ala B-17 out in the field in WWII, everything is done outside although I benefited from a family garage back in the '80s,those days are long gone.

Consider me VERY eccentric, I rebuild half the parts most go out and buy over again and they often then last longer than what you will get over the counter. If there is one thing I picked up it's that shop magic chemicals are mostly a farce, they can work in rare instances but by and large they are wallet drainers and nothing more. I sold plenty of them in parts as well to get reports back saying the same. I also grilled product reps that learned to hate me when I forced them to admit the chemicals really are more for the human being driving the car than the cars themselves. Why one of my favorite sayings is 'fix the driver first, then fixing the car is so much easier'............

'... until that injector and eventually another failed altogether (about a year later), surely shorted out...'

At some point one has to ask self whether the extra cleaning solvents in the treatments have anything to do with eating the paint coatings off the injector windings. Ethanol is a known doer of that as well so the $100 in treatments could easily have been wasted. Where the shorting comes from.

Lubing injectors is pointless and why many of the internal parts are steel or stainless. Gas itself even though made from oil is a solvent and cuts ANY lube on earth to pieces, add ethanol to it and the whole idea of 'lubing' injector parts becomes laughable. Not to mention much of the additive ends up in the cats to poison them sooner over the longterm, a little gift they will never tell you about.

Just one more person's view of things.

No insult intended or implied at all but things are what they are.....................your vehicle as always and do what you will do.