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I have been using Techron for about 20 years now. I invest in auto stocks and as a result I have relationships with mechanical and chemical engineers at many different auto companies. All of them to a man will tell you that this product works, and they used it themselves. I simply have never understood why someone else has not engineered a similar product that works. In the meantime, if you truly want to clean those fuel injectors, then use Techron regularly. Allow me to give you a couple of tips based on a lifetime of experience. * If you haven't moved over to synthetic oil for your oil changes, it's time to shape up. As a rule and you really need to know this, there is no wear and tear on a car engine, once the engine is warmed up to normal operating temperature. The only wear is on start ups while the car is heating up. This is why you shouldn't start a car in winter, and 15 seconds later jump onto an expressway. The engine needs to warm up. Synthetic oil flows better, and easier, and quicker, thus less wear and tear getting to that normal operating temperature you need. Chemists call it viscosity. BMW and Mercedes change synthetic every 10,000 miles or so. I change about every 7,000 miles, but higher is okay. Also, get yourself a top-notch oil filter. The filters in the quick change places are about 25 cent to 50 cents, their cost. I buy the top of the line anybody's as long as it's top of the line. Some manufacturers have 3 or 4 different quality filters for the same car, so buy the best, and if you take it to the quick change oil shops, they will used your filter and give you a discount on the oil change. * Transmission fluid - either change the fluid every 25,000 or 30,000 miles, or NEVER CHANGE IT. Once you let it go too long, the transmission gets use to the particle buildup in its inner workings. If you then try to flush it out, the trainee starts to fail relatively quickly, leading to a new transmission in about 6 months. So change constantly every 25 to 30k or leave it alone. Also, if you can, get a full flush, not a partial flush. * Most of the scheduled visits to the car dealer for servicing every 7,500 to 15,000 miles is a waste of your money, and an attempt by the auto companies to make profits for their car dealer networks. Those schedules are non-sense, and simply make money for the dealers. There are things you need to do regularly and constantly, the other stuff is a waste of time, money, and energy. * Your car battery was built to specifications by your car manufacturers to last 3 years to 50,000 miles, and that's it. Even if it is a $100,000 car, that battery is still good for only 3 years or 50k. My suggestion is once you get to either of those numbers, you go out and buy any top line battery that has a lifetime warranty, and you will have it for a lifetime. All top line aftermarket batteries are infinitely superior to original batteries. You simply should not wait until the origianl battery dies in the middle of a cold winter night to consider replacement. * Rotate your tires every 7,000 to 10,000 miles, until replacement. Tires are radically different than just 10 years ago. First basically all of them are made in China, even the fancy European names are made in China. You are basically paying for advertising when you pay big money for fancy names. They all hold up about the same now versus 10 years ago. The difference a decade ago is in the initial problems when you drove off the lot with your new tires. Years ago if a dealer sold a thousand tires, he had problems with as many as 100 of them. Today it might be five or six out of the same 1,000. That is why all manufacturers currently manufacture to a much higher standard than 10 or 15 years ago. Take advantage of this by paying a $100 or so per tire rather than $200 per tire. I would rather see you buy the $100 tire and change it more often than the $200 tire and change less often. Remember, if you look at the palm of your hand it is about 4 inches in size. That is the amount of tire that actually meets with the road at any time, and that is why you need to change tires more often than you think. Once you have low thread, you only have 4 inches of thread trying to stop a 3,000 or 4,000 pound vehicle. Good luck. Change those tires. SUMMARY You want synthetic oil changes every 10,000 miles (I change at 7,000) with a high quality filter built for syntetic oils. Change the transmission fluid every 25 to 30K. Flush out the radiator every two years, and replace all the anti-freeze. Replace all the brake fluid every two years. That's it. Your car will last 200,000 to 300,000 miles if you do this, and maybe more. Certainly both your engine and transmission will last that long. The body is another story, and oh yes, use Techron to clean your fuel injectors. I do it when I change the oil. I use it at the same time to remind when I have done it. Get yourself a small notebook, easy to work with and keep it in the glove compartment, and write down in four or five sections when you do things. Keep another folder in the trunk with your receipts for each car, and just keep it there. Good luck and thank you for reading this review. As far as Techron goes, I wouldn't own a car without using. Richard C. Stoyeck