Does this seem pricey? $300 to clean the injectors.
Is this necessary now? 80,000 miles, no issues, 2000 RX 300.
Thanks.


From: BMesser@westsidelexus.com <BMesser@westsidelexus.com>
Subject: EFI SERVICE FOR YOUR VEHICLE.
To: my wife
Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 10:32 PM


The EFI service is Electronic Fuel Injector service. We clean/flush the fuel injectors, clean the throttle body, and air intake. We then clean all the carbon off of the pistons by running a chemical through the engine. Last we put a fuel additive in the gas tank to clean the rest of the fuel system. This takes about 1.5 to 2 hours.
The service is $299.95.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Thank you

 

If your car is running fine, let it go....I have 160k miles and never have had this done.

 

Go get a bottle of Redline and dump it in your tank, follow the DIY's here for the MAF, throttle body, etc and you're out $22 bucks if you don't have the cleaners on hand.

Plus, I'll refer you back to what Thomas1 said.

 

1.5 to 2 hours???

But that's about what most dealers charge.

 

I have had very good luck with the B&G 44K.Runs real good after using that stuff.

 

You guys are great. Thanks for the feedback and taking the time to contribute.
I'm on a corvette forum and everybody also replys ('65 vert.). My wife drives the RX, great vehicle. All I do is pay the dealer for service. This is our first foreign upscale vehicle and with high maintenance costs I would like to take a more active role, get to know the RX better, and question some charges her service advisor recommends. Lexmex helped greatly on the rear bumper removal.
Bob in Texas

 

If you have $300. to throw away- go for it, it'll help the economy. There are some excellent products out there that really do the job. And you can do it yourself, probably in a lot less than 2 hours and for a lot less than $300. Sorry, I'm not saying it won't do any good, I'm only saying it isn't necessary. This was designed for the people that have a lot of money and want to spread it around.

 

I had the same service done on my car at the dealer for less than $100. I figured if they cleaned the throttle body and IAC valve it would save me a little work. One year later I think I need to clean the IAC valve. Waste of $ IMO.

 

They probably never cleaned the iac valve in the first place.Although,I cleaned mine and it is much better.But still acts up every so often.

 

I am going to let you all know something. I had this done about 5 years ago with Lexus, but it cost about $125. Was it worth it? In my case, yes. It was about Dec. 2003, about half a year before I decided to start racing my RX and also about the time I first started doing some of the first modifications to my RX in terms of improving engine performance at high altitude.

My RX was fulls of gunk in the intake manifold because of Mexico City air and also because I used a heavier weight of oil at the time, a Mobil 1 5W50 (we didn't have much of a choice in synthetic oil in Mexico City at that time) if my memory serves me correct, that would find its way into the manifold by the crankshaft ventilation system and PCV valve. The vehicle can much smoother after it, felt like it had blown it's nose.

Now, occasionally thereafter when I was in Mexico City after I'd do something with the IACV and throttle body, I'd toss a bit of carb cleaner in there and then reconnect everything and the engine would suck the stuff up and clean it out the back (smoke). Took many minutes, like when you use seafoam (which we didn't have down there), but it did roughly the same thing. I have not seen an issue since I got back to Florida and in addition, I noticed a decrease in issues after using Castrol 0W30.