[s-cars] Experience with leaking injectors?

[Eric Phillips]

> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 11:23:58 -0600 (MDT)
> From: David Forgie <forgied at shaw.ca>
> To: s-car-list <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Subject: [s-cars] Experience with leaking injectors?
>
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> I've contacted the injector guy and I will have to send him the injectors
> to retest.  His first question was whether the
> car had been sitting for long periods or daily driven. He suspects bad
> fuel.  I don't think so. It's not a daily but it gets
> driven pretty much weekly or every 2nd week.
>
> Anyway, I was wondering what experiences with leaking Bosch injectors,
> either OE or RS2, that others might have encountered
> and what the solution is/was.
>
>
Well, this guy is full of crap.  My Porsche has Bosch injectors, and sits
all damn winter with ethanol gas sitting in the tank (yeah, with Stabil,
but still...) and never fails to light off in the spring.  No long crank,
no stumbling.  And no hot start issues, ever.  So the "sitting long
periods" has nothing to do with anything.  Bad fuel?  What kind of bad fuel
causes injectors to leak?  I guess fuel with big chunks of crap in it that
block the valves open???  That just happen to get by the fuel filter and
injector input screen.

Maybe the internal seals could be replaced, but my money is on replacing
the two leaky injectors.