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Originally Posted by cleanspeed1
Yeah dude, you are so due for a cleaning. You know how much those injectors cost. This will save you a ton of money. The biggest scam for the electronic unit injectors is that unless you are absolutely horrid with oil and fuel filter changes, and unless there is an engineering defect in the design, THEY DO NOT WEAR OUT. With the HEUI injector, the passages where the oil flows gets carboned up and they have, no pun intended, a stroke. Keep the passages clean, they keep on moving.
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Funny but I know EXACTLY what they cost
I bought this car broken, with 239k miles where the lifter took a dump and broke a valve then jammed it into the piston the the piston jammed it into the injector. I replaced the set with slightly larger ones (t4's i believe). I borrowed a factory set till Frank06 could build mine. Runs night and day better & mileage jumped from 43's to 47. I'd love to try the HSS on this trip. I've gotten lots of 45-47mpg tanks and my best of 58mpg doing painfully slow hypermiling. My goal for this Beetle is to get 50mpg driving somewhat normal.
I'm not sure this Beetle can do it without some tweaks(tune, downpipe/exhaust, wing, grill block, belly pan,taller 5th gear). I was able to get 49.8mpg in the 96 Passat the last time I took this trip loaded with 4 adults. Just the GF and I this trip
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