Good fuel system cleaner, or ripoff??

[williambrea]

Is the monro fuel system treatment worth it?

Fuel System Cleaner
Valvoline Performance System™ 3-Step Fuel and Air Intake Cleaning System Clean and Protect Your Entire Fuel System and Air Intake System.

What We Do:
• Clean the entire fuel system (including the fuel injector, intake valve and combustion chamber)
• Clean the entire air intake system

What It Does For Your Car:
• Reduces emissions caused by deposits
• Unclog fuel injectors
• Increase your engine's power and performance
• Improves acceleration
• Effectively cleans throttle plates on today's fuel injected engines
• Helps eliminate hesitation, rough idle and knocking
• Removes gum, varnish, sludge and carbon deposits instantly
• Cleans fuel system components that most fuel injector cleaners fail to reach
• Reduces emissions caused by deposits This service will help enhance the life of your engine.


This is the product they use:
Performance System 3-Part

They clean out the whole plenum chamber and the throttle body with actuall rags ( big cotton ball looking things idk )

Is this worth $110 or should i just use seafoam or somthing else?
Advice or opinions are welcome!
Thanks!

[williambrea]

ttt anybody?

[Jupiter Rover]

seafoam is 6 bucks

[Dantelaterra]

this is interesting since I know nothing about it. I just throw some fuel injection cleaner in my gas on occassion.

[OkieRover]

Originally Posted by williambrea

What It Does For Your Car:
• Reduces emissions caused by deposits

Are you really all that interested in reducing emissions?

Originally Posted by williambrea

• Unclog fuel injectors

What makes you think yours are clogged?

Originally Posted by williambrea

• Increase your engine's power and performance
• Improves acceleration

How exactly does it do that?

Originally Posted by williambrea

• Effectively cleans throttle plates on today's fuel injected engines

So does a bit of carburetor/brake cleaner. I challenge the average guy/gal to tell you where the throttle plates are.

Originally Posted by williambrea

• Helps eliminate hesitation, rough idle and knocking

Knocking is a product of low octane. IF this product only HELPS I'd be a bit disappointed. I want hesitation, rough idle and knocking ELIMINATED.

Originally Posted by williambrea

• Removes gum, varnish, sludge and carbon deposits instantly
• Cleans fuel system components that most fuel injector cleaners fail to reach
• Reduces emissions caused by deposits This service will help enhance the life of your engine.

So does a few other solutions we've discussed with you, including just using good oil with a proper maintenance schedule.

Will,
Don't get me wrong, I've never used this stuff, but it sounds like a pig in a poke if you ask me. How many miles do you have on your Rover? I had my heads resurfaced for 5$ less than this product costs.
You are getting too concerned with gum, varnish and sludge. Just change your oil. You are not going to spend 100$ on your Rover and improve anything enough that you will notice it at the pump or in your pedal when you press it down.

That's just my opinion. I got 140,000 miles out of my 4.2 before the head gaskets had to be replaced. And that engine was still solid except for the leaking head gaskets.

Just buy a couple of bottles of injector cleaner and call it good.

[williambrea]

haha thanks for the advice, yea the more ive been looking the more it seems to be a rip-off. My car has 212k miles on it so i think im going with BG 44k b/c its "the best" supposidly.

Thanks!