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What is Direct Fuel Injector Cleaner and Why Do You Need It?

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Fuel injection System

Without proper maintenance, your Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) engine can have performance loss, efficiency drops and increased emissions in as early as 3,000 miles/5,000 km.

Symptoms:

  • Poor fuel economy
  • Power loss
  • Rough idle
  • Hard starting
  • Pinging/Knocking
  • Increased emissions

Features:

  • Cleans fuel injectors
  • Cleans throttle body
  • Cleans plenum and air intake
  • Cleans intake valves and ports
  • Removes combustion chamber deposits
  • Corrects balance of fuel and air in system

Benefits:

  • Restores fuel efficiency
  • Restores performance
  • Restores power
  • Reduces harmful emissions

What is Direct Fuel Injector Cleaner and Why Do You Need It?

As your vehicle (gasoline or diesel) is driven, byproducts are produced. These deposits, if not removed, might stop your vehicle from running, as it should.

GDI (gasoline direct injection) engines, also known as DFIs (Direct Fuel Injection engines), are becoming universal. Because this innovation has issues like any other, GDI cleaners are used to get to the bottom of performance hampering symptoms. Fuel Injector Service Near Me>>

What Is GDI?

Gasoline Direct Injection is simply the spraying of fuel right into the engine’s combustion chamber. Some of the benefits of this technology include reducing engine noise; lower heat-up times; eliminated vibrations; increased power and efficiency. Synonyms include gasoline direct injection or GDI, spark ignited direct injection, or SIDI, and fuel stratified injection, or FSI.

GDI Systems Have A Major Flaw: Carbon Buildup

In the earlier injectors, fuel originated from behind the valve, and the flow washed away some of the carbon, or soot, that built up on the valve’s surfaces. Not the case with GDI systems.

Where does this carbon originate? Because there is no flow, but a spray, the intake valves must be actively cleaned. As the spray enters the combustion chambers, the oxidized fuel molecules polymerize into a gas insoluble precipitate i.e. carbon deposits. Gases exiting the crankcase ventilation system double back as additional carbon deposits in the form of vapors from oil, fuel, & other substances.

The Potential Results

Carbon deposit buildups are capable of disrupting the highly refined timing of GDI engines. Ever been sitting at a stop light or stop sign and the vehicle idled rougher than normal? This can be caused by poor combustion and lower engine efficiency.

Deposits add in the GDI system add additional wear and tear to the engine. Carbon buildups foul the surfaces of intake manifolds. What should be a constant parabolic flow becomes a turbulent flow. This turbulence promotes imbalanced burning, which eventually causes your engine to develop abnormal high-temperature zones that may degrade faster.

Dealing with Buildups

This is actually quite a simple process for a mechanic. If preventative maintenance is used along the way, products can be used to almost make it where your fuel injection system can last forever. When detergents aren’t used along the way, what will happen is you may need fuel injector replacement. Often when one goes, it can lead to additional injectors adjacent to the replacement one going back as well.

Should I Be Using DFI Cleaners in My Vehicle?

Absolutely. A BG GDI Fuel Induction service should be performed every 15,000 miles. If your mechanic’s scan says that your engine’s volumetric efficiency has dropped or reveals that your vehicle has been misfiring or stumbling, these are usually good indicators of GDI carbon problems.

It’s generally best not to let things get to the point of no return, and carbon buildups are no exception. Most GDI cleaners are easy to apply at the same interval that you get your oil changed or one or two times per year depending on which cleaners you prefer. Using cleaners is also way less expensive than asking a mechanic to chip off hundreds of thousands of miles worth of deposits or having to replace parts. Wichita Mechanic Shop Near Me>>

 Gasoline Direct Injection Cleaner

If we are talking about GDI engines, where the injectors are inserted directly into the combustion chamber such as in turbos & superchargers, the service is called a BG GDI Fuel/Air Induction service. The products used for this service include: Fuel Injection & combustion Chamber Clenaer, 44k, and GDI Intake Vavle Cleaner. If the injectors are insert at the end of the air intake system and not directly into the combustion chamber than you don't need the GDI service, you just need the Fuel/Air Induction Service. The products used for this service include: Air Intake System Cleaner, Fuel Injection System Cleaner, ISC, 44k. Other the counter products won't touch the effectiveness of this service and combination of products. It's like a team versus an individual, it's never a fair fight. Plus this service must be performed by a trained specialists and it requires specific tools to perform the service.

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