As RR says.

Don't think i've ever bought an injector for a Diesel, if there's beena problem at all they usually only needed cleaning/overhaul and the Diesel specialists in the next town always did them for me.

Hi Guys

Thanks for your replies, I agree with what you are saying about Vauxhall or BMW not making the injectors, most component parts for cars and indeed anything else for that matter are made by various different companies, I also think that most of the manufactures will not deal directly with Joe public, no what I was looking for was a retailer in Germany where hopefully I could purchase the injectors cheaper than in the UK.

Let me bring you up to speed guys, I had a problem with injectors leaking, where the one half of the injector body screws into the other, I understand this is a metal to metal joint, no seals or sealnt, so I sent them to a company called P. F. Jones in Manchester to have them repaired and clean, I fitted them back into the car myself with new leak off rubber tubing and new copper seals between injectors and cylinder head.

This work was done back in August 2012 and the car as only done 5600 miles since then, not a huge mileage but because of the time factor I guess there isn’t much point in sending them back.

What got me onto thinking about buying from Germany, at the beginning of this month April I needed a set of new tyres, I shopped around on the net and came across a UK website advertising tyres but in fact it was a German company who supplied them, that is to say they were shipped from Germany directly to my home address.

For the benefit of anyone else who might read this I saved £92 on a set of 4 tyres which included balance, fitting and valves, the tyres are Goodyear Vector 4 Seasons.

Coming back to the injectors the price for them from the main agents is £85.80 inc vat each and a whopping £290.00 for the one with sensor wires attached to it, so I’m looking at £719 in total, obviously I don’t want to spend that type of cash if I can help it.

I guess I’m torn as to which would be the best way to go:

A: Try and buy new from Germany if I can find a seller?

B: Send the ones I’ve just pulled out of the car to a different repairer and hope I have better luck with them?

C: Buy some second hand ones off e-bay and also off e-bay some new injector nozzles?

One last thing the car as done 88000 miles.

So guys what are your thoughts on A, B, or C unless of course you think there maybe any other alternatives.

Thanks again

Clive

Hi Gordon

The tyres were from Tyreleader as you mentioned, cost me £448.36 for a set of 4 so I was pleased with that, I’ll certainly make a note of the other sites you mentioned for when I need some more, thanks for that.

Yes the injectors are leaking again, as best I can see, they appear wet where the injectors screw into each other and in the well where they screw into the cylinder head, could be just dribbling into the well though.

Needless to say the smell is coming into the car, worst when in slow moving traffic as there is less air circulation. As far as running is concerned no problems at all, speed picks up ok, doesn’t falter.

I’m still uncertain which way to go with them, it’s a hell of a lot of cash to buy new, I assume when injectors are cleaned and spray pattern checked, it would show up if the bodies were leaking during testing, I’m only guessing mind. I’ve got the injectors out and tried to unscrew one of the bodies, I had to use a hammer on the spanner to shift it, so let’s put it this way it certainly wasn’t loose.

Would it leak at the metal to metal joint and work its way up thread I’m no expert so don’t really know?

I’ve got to admit on getting the injectors out I managed to bend a couple of the small metal tubes which the leak off pipes connect onto.

I tried straightening them and haven’t a couple of them snapped off so I’ll need to get something done about that, I could buy some secondhand or try the remanufactures, what's your thoughts?

Cheers

Clive