Injector cleaner fuel additive?

You should change the air twice a year...summer and winter.

Seahag

"Mike Roma> Yes, dammit, my wife just phoned to tell me it's time once

Just plain old shop air seems to do it. It lasts about a year or until the next cold snap before it all leaks out overnight, then the shop has to open up the tire and put fresh air in. This is usually good for the rest of the year.

They have 'never' found the leak(s) and all 4 keep needing to get the air changed.

Mike

FrankW wrote:

Ours only usually need it once a year. Come the first cold snap and the old air all just leaks out. They then have to open the tires up and put new air in them.

Last year they were all still under warranty from the year before so they put new air in for free. I hope the cold snap last year was later so the 1 year warranty on the flat tire fix will still be in effect and I can get the new air for free again this year.

The shop has never found a leak in any of the 4 tires and they have changed the air at least 3 or 4 times for each tire over the last 4 or 5 years.

Mike

Seahag wrote:

while yer at it change the blinker fluid

Are you using air from Canadian Tire? The stuff they distribute doesn't meet the current DC specs for newer tires

The new DC approved air has Extended Tire Inflation Life Technology (ETILT)

Maybe that's the problem. I am using their air. Figured it might be ok in my AMC Jeep, guess not....

Mike

billy ray wrote:

I would even buy that gold infused blinker fluid if I thought it would help keep the old air in those damn aluminum rims...

Mike

"J. Sprauer" wrote:

That's probably the problem all right. People think their older Jeeps are okay with the older technology air but it is the reaction between newer tire components and the composition of the old technology air.

The problem was so bad in some tires that most manufacturers had to stop manufacturing them due to persistent leaking that could not be addressed. That was in the size 33 x 9.5-15

Well, shop air will get you 80% of the way to pure nitrogen - ambient air is normally 78-80% nitrogen .

I had > Just plain old shop air seems to do it. It lasts about a year or until

Tomes proclaimed:

We could, but why bother, since typing "top tier gasoline" into your favorite neighborhood search engine would yield

FrankW proclaimed:

Yessss, I would imagine so.

This is not a surprise either.

That *is* the purging method...for your bank account.

There are fuel injector cleaner products. Alleged to work to clean injectors that are rather dirty. Not that many treatments will buy a new set of injectors.

Mike Romain proclaimed:

I had a #!#@ 164E that refused to start and run properly around Dallas unless I dropped about half a can of gas additive in it. Odd, but here in the nocal southbay area, it didn't need it.

Also have your ball joints changed every other fill up.

L.W.(ßill) Hughes III proclaimed:

FrankW proclaimed:

rage==total waste of time and money. unless you run your jeep at nascar tracks.

Take 10 parts air. Remove roughly 20%. The rest is nitrogen. Or you can pay thru the nose for the stuff at places who should know better but need money.

Too much pollution from south of the border in it?

billy ray proclaimed:

It sounds like hey have the engineering departments back hard at work to design components that will fail the day after the warranty expires.

That was the direction of the original investigation into the problem but it was eventually found to be far simpler.

Canadian Tire uses air meeting the French standards while tires and wheels still meet the original standards.