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Offline russ-vdub

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Grabbed some of that Car Lube injector cleaner from GSF the other week and last night my car started spluttering loads and the revs dropped and car almost stalled. This happened a few times, went away and then came back a again. Im guessing its a fuelling problem but just wondered what your experiences with this stuff is like? Have a buggered my injectors or is the spluttering just it cleaning them?

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Re: Car started spluttering after using Injector cleaner?
« Reply #1 on: 19 March 2011, 17:07 »
Try this:

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/?t=72096

Works for me, do it your own risk thou :grin:

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Re: Car started spluttering after using Injector cleaner?
« Reply #2 on: 19 March 2011, 20:56 »
Run it for a short while then replace the fuel filter. :smiley:

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Re: Car started spluttering after using Injector cleaner?
« Reply #3 on: 20 March 2011, 10:30 »
Run it for a short while then replace the fuel filter. :smiley:

your right, the injector cleaner has probably cleaned 20yrs of crap out of the fuel tank and thrown it all into the fuel filter and blocked it up:embarassed:

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Re: Car started spluttering after using Injector cleaner?
« Reply #4 on: 20 March 2011, 11:13 »
All that, but start with fresh and correct spark plugs..

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Re: Car started spluttering after using Injector cleaner?
« Reply #5 on: 20 March 2011, 17:07 »
same problem i had, all above sorted it, didnt learn though and forgot to buy the filter when i did the mk3 earlier on this month! :grin: