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Originally Posted by Lyle O
It is pretty funny reading all of this, as I was with Bosch back in the '80s when we introduced fuel injection broadly to the US OEMs. All of them began having problems with clogging injectors, which, of course they blamed on us. However, we had no such problems in Europe. We quickly determined that it was all driven by the quality of the gas (type and quantity of additives) that would result in performance issues. In the US, major brands like Shell and Mobile were no issue, but there were so many smaller and generic providers that did not formulate at all appropriately.
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I remember those days...
At the time I was running the service department of a new car dealership with 4 different franchises. Electronic fuel injection was increasingly more common and driveability issues were getting bad. Clogged injectors, intake valve deposits... Lots of technical service bulletins were handed out from the manufacturers.
At that time, Phillips 66 still had their headquarters in Oklahoma and their R&D department bought vehicles from us to use in the testing of their additive packages. I know they were pretty serious about solving the problems and I
imagine they were not alone.
The infernal government has mandated so many changes to fuels in the last 30-40 years, I'm surprised it still burns. Even the alcohol-free crap that is sold now is worse in a number of ways than what I remember existing before the changes began in earnest.
JR