This injector flush is absolutely not something a consensus
here believes is worth the money.

What a lot of folks here do urge is putting a bottle of
Chevron Techron (around $7 at Wal-Mart) fuel system cleaner
into a near empty fuel tank, filling up, and then having the
oil changed in about two weeks.

40k miles is not bad for OEM brake pads. That's about how
long my first ones lasted on my 91 Civic.

   That's interesting. My dealer here says that they very rarely do
anything to the injectors, unless there is something that points toward the
injectors having a problem.

No, absolutely not. No reason unless you've used poor gas which you did not.
Honda will tell you it is unnecessary and perhaps even harmful to the
injector seals with some solvents that are used. Additives are also frowned
upon by the manufacturer for the same reason.
Modern name brand fuels have detergents in them and as long as you use a
decent grade or name gas you're wasting your money.
Howard

Go to Costco and get a Whole box of the good Chevron cleaner.

Sounds like the dealer is boosting their monthly sales to me.  I have had
somewhere around 14 Hondas now, and I get close to 200k on some of them and
NOT ONCE has any of them ever needed to have the injectors cleaned.

I wouldn't trust that dealer any more.

Hey, now that I think of it, how the hell do they know there is a buildup?
Why did they take them out ????????

G-Man

Have my 2004 Accord EX 4i in for a 40k mile service, dealer calls an
says there's a little buildup on the injectors, do I want to spen
$160 to get the injector flush

(hey, they sell this car on a 100k mile "no tuneup" policy

I usually let the dealer screw me around for modest stuff, but is thi
reasonable or competely bogus?  I know I asked online a couple o
years ago when my Acura dealer tried to sell me that flush on ever
service, sight-unseen, and the consensus seemed to be it might mak
sense around 80k to 100k miles, but not sooner

Anyway, those friggin' tiny back brakes were down below 2mm so I tol
them to go ahead on those, so I wasn't in the mood for more BS

Any advice on that injector flush

FWIW, I use almost exclusively Chevron gas

Thanks

J
If you have always used a good high quality fuell from day
(meaning since new) like chevron with techron and changed your fuell filte
regularly and you know the vehicle runs well with no starting or hesitation
problems dont fall for it!  you dont need it on my 95 civic with 224.000km

never had that done never did need it car ran beutifully. the
"key to maintaining clean fuel injectores" is using a good
quality fuell and changing the fuel filter when HONDA
recommends it be done that will keep your fuel injectores
clean and flowing right for a ton of miles

--
johnin

No there is not.

Pass on it.

The injector flush is very effective at transferring money from your pocket
to theirs. You can do just as good a job with the stuff you pour in the tank
(lots of people perfer Techron, but I've had good results with the cheaper
Pyroil). Since you have been running Chevron I think even that is overkill;
I used to use a tank of Chevron or Texaco instead of injector cleaner when
my old Nissan was getting balky. The effect was pretty much the same. The
dealer is being completely bogus in this case.

Mike

It's another Honda ripoff scheme.  I've had my car for 14 years now, it's got 136,000 miles, and
I've never cleaned the fuel injectors and never had any problems.  You're being lied to by Honda.