Dealer Rec: 30K Fuel Induction Service

The dealer injection service purges the system with 100% cleaner, its similar to the BG flush that independents have.

I had a lot of good experiences with it cleaning gummed up valves from the old days of EGR (which are returning) and have actually seen it restore compression.

That said, modern fuel is super clean as long as you buy from a name brand station, and shifting over 3000rpm will keep the valves clean with the D4S system.

I would do an injection service every 5 years, but its certainly not necessary.

The crap you add to tanks dilutes instantly and looses its effectiveness, making it more useless than the dealer flush.

 

No problem man. Just send your money anywhere. I'll get it.

Seriously, read the manual. Do what Toyota says for maintenance, not your dealer. Your dealer is not Toyota. They are private businesses that sell and represent Toyota.

 

I honestly wouldn’t. I don’t think the MAFS is dirty yet unless your running in dirt a lot. The throttle body on our trucks I believe is electronic now for 3rd gen and gets messed up if not re calibrated properly after opening to clean. My 2nd gen has 123k miles on it and I live in fine desert sand and when I took all mine apart to clean it really wasn’t bad at all just alittle black and the MAFS wasn’t even bad like I had expected. Honestly just buy a can of sea foam fuel treatment dump it in your tank on bone dry. pull off your MAF and look at the sensor part and see if it has dirt on it. If it does it’ll tell you how bad your throttle body is. Unless it’s caked on with dirt your solid dude and not worth the wasted cash.

 

I'm like you, I like to avoid spending my money needlessly. I've worked on cars for twenty plus years at the dealerships (Japanese imports) before switching to a desk job pushing pencils.

I still work on my own cars because I still have some physical abilities and tools to do so, I also kinda enjoy it, but mainly to save me money.

I don't believe in following the owners manual/factory service recommendations. I believe I might have some OCD, but I don't agree with 10,000 mile synthetic oil changes or life-time transmission fluid. I'll do my first oil & filter change 5k miles and my first transmission fluid service at 20k.

Lifetime transmission fluid really gets me because Toyota only warranties the transmission for 5/60k.

With the induction cleaning, it's mainly to clean the carbon deposits that build up around the throttle-body plate. With these newer generation of drive-by-wire, these throttle bodies are driven by an actuator (electrical motor) to open and close the throttle plate. Excessive carbon build up around the throttle plate causes the actuator to work harder than normal, causing it to wear faster.

You don't really have to worry about paying to replace the throttle since your Tacoma only has 30k miles, and the warranty on a throttle body is usually 7/70. But what happens at 70,001 miles?

I guess I'm at an advantage, because all I have to do is buy the parts, because I already posses the tools and the knowledge to do both the transmission fluid service and induction service myself.

I guess I really do have OCD...

 

my local dealer wants a bit over $250 for this similar induction service on my old grandpa Taco