Is this what I want to see in used car history: "Fuel injection system flushed/serviced"?

National sample of one -- a steady, calculated, 42.8mpg, below and past 50k miles, OEM and replacement tires...

 

I was quoted $900 for a dealer to replace the egr valve and cooler. I eventually did buy both from online dealers. Both were about 50% retail and my local independent shops labor was about 30%. It was long ago but provided a spare cooler (overall changed twice in 315k miles) and provided the revised egr valve.

 

That's actually not bad. I think Tampa Hybrids cleaning service is around $650 USD. That would include the intake manifold cleaning as well.

 

You arbitrarily came up with those numbers, I didn't. The best MPG gains are on all vehicles with >100k miles with dirty clogged up to some degree injectors. And yes, they all are.

 

Yes and Yes. Where we are small enough to only add a small double digit markup on said parts for maximum value for the customer and minimal profit as to keep a good review and happy customers. Dealers mark up at their own discretion at the behest of your wallet, the consumer.

 

You could always bail out and spout your wisdom elsewhere.

 

No I like torturing the know it all DIY'rs with actual knowledge they can't fathom to be true unless it's in said Toyota manual. Best thing about the mute feature is watching the grumbling curmudgeons disappear from the thread into their own twisted tornado of anger when Truth is posted they don't agree with.

 

If anyone thinks that science is "gasoline cleans fuel injectors why do they need to be cleaned ever" then you've been watching too many Techron commercials and have never pulled out injectors with 150k miles or better. They are all caked with huge carbon deposits on the tips and not spraying correctly. Is 2-3 mpg gain (proven fact) not worth doing the service? That's up to you. If you're doing an EGR clean at that time, why not at least pull them and find out.

 

It seems you are the angry and tortured one here. It must be tough living out there in SoCal with that attitude.

 

Yep and many folks no longer perform an "Italian tune up" on their ICE vehicles. I remember, in the 70's, Dad taking us boys out in his V-8 Malibu Classic station wagon, on the interstate, and stomping on the gas peddle and getting those RPMs near read-line and getting her to almost 100 mph! When he first started, you could see the nasty black smoke blowing out of the exhaust. I remember actually seeing the gas gauge go down when he did this!!
I've always done this in my vehicles at least once a month or so but don't see any smoke and, surely, don't get it up to 100 mph in the Prius. (But the V-8 in my Tundra has no problem at all!!)

 

those are the mileages the o/p has in the first post

 

And obviously the injector cleaning I am talking about doing isn't dumping solution into the gas tank like the dealer would do. Try to follow the train of conversation here...we've all agreed the dealership method is pointless at any mileage.

 

are you azusa in disguise? same 'tude problem. feel free to 'mute' me

 

Sorry that professional automotive science disrupts your worldview. Maybe learn a thing or two and take it graciously and test what I am saying yourself to be True. I don't gain anything from offering real world experience here, you're not paying my bills but yet still here trying to help people. If anyone has a "tude" problem it's those unwilling to except experience as their guide.

 

Too bad we don’t have a thumbs down option.

 

so many claims, so little data

 

"read a carfax report and it says "Fuel injection system flushed/serviced" I assume that is a GOOD thing "

Perhaps yes. That might imply the current owner services his vehicle at a Toyota dealership using OEM parts and procedures.
(I assume this item only added a chemical to the fuel tank, not a service where the injector lines were removed, etc., so to say).
Like dealership oil changes and a "stamp" in the warranty book, versus a well-maintained DIY Pruis.
Would it add value/ cost to your used car purchase? Perhaps no.
Would it add longevity to the potential EGR/ carbon/ injector/ throttle body issues? I am not so sure.

The Italian tune-up is a great thing .
Using only top-tier fuel is a great thing.
Adding Techron before oil changes is a great thing.

Removing the throttle body to clean blades, removing the injectors to reset the spray pattern, removing the EGR to remove "coking" ... well at under 100K miles may be not needed or great, but at 200K may be a great thing.

All FWIW.... good luck finding your V.

 

To charge that amount of $s just to dump a bottle of something into the gas tank might be to gutsy, even for dealership. Between that and full-blown injector removal/cleaning, I see a lot of "special bottle with hose, patched into air intake, and the engine run with the bottle's fluid introduced". It produces impressive clouds of (presumably noxious) smoke out the tail pipe. I'd guess that's the sorta thing they do.

 

There's always the 'IGNORE' option...

 

I don't have to provide you with anything other than whatever facts I've already provided. I could care less what you think or how my knowledge affects you, it's for the lurkers to actually hear it from a professional on what's fact instead of listening to random plebs with no experience in the field.

I've been watching, posting and reading these dinosaur type discussion boards since they started in the mid 1990's and It's always the same type group of know it all's with their "engineering and electrical degrees" from decades ago who don't like being told they are wrong on a public forum. Like Jack said in his angry video, "If you don't like it, don't F*&^cking buy it". We'll keep on helping customers and fixing cars right (not the shadytree mechanic way like you hear on Prius Chat).