Price of a Fuel Injector for my car?
I drive a 2001 Ford Escape XLT V6 2WD and about a week ago it started making a weird ticking noise that I knew wasn't good. So I took it in to Auto Zone for a diagnostic and one of the problems was a fuel injection problem. Now, my car is at 205,500 miles and it's not worth a new tranny, engine, etc. Which was why I worried about the fuel injection problem. Because I was told that a new one would cost hundreds to a couple thousand dollars. But I went on the Auto Zone web site, specified what car I drive and clicked on fuel injection and it says that a new fuel injector part for my car would only cost me about $35 and an extra $20 for a new fuel line. Is that true? Is it just because my car is from 2001 and isn't a 2015 Mustang (Or any new car)? I can't afford a new one if it's $1,000. But if it really does cost only $35-50 I can order it.
A fuel injector is $25 to $30 for your vehicle.
The Auto Zone diagnostic is just reading OBDII codes and should not be considered a professional diagnosis. The greatest limitation is that the codes only report conditions, not causes. The overwhelming majority of fuel injection codes are not caused by fuel injectors, EGR codes are almost never caused by a bad EGR valve, and codes that mention O2 sensors are almost never caused by bad O2 sensors.
You will be money ahead to have a mechanic diagnose the problem before you spend money on what the problem probably is not.
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