Is there any truth to this statement?

perhaps on some other cars. our cars hate... no, HATE remans. period. no one who drives their car daily has ever had any good luck with remans, or rebuilts or whatever the company offering them calls their crap.

for example http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....111&highlight=

Not a drop of truth to it....

New(preferably) Or good used will work in a $$ pinch..But vg injectors are prone to early failure, where the ve injectors are not. So buy new and be done with it..

ALL remanufactured parts, or just the injectors???

cause i have a remanufactured rack and pinion and rear calipers. No problems as of yet

Any remanufactured part from the 'big chain auto parts stores" are a coin toss in quality, mainly injectors and alternators are the big " junk" items at the chain stores, especially injectors. You should be just fine with your reman rack unit and calipers .

gotcha

rebuilt injectors are junk for the 3rd gen no matter who they are from.
starters/alternators that are rebuilt from the big box stores are also typically crapola.
I actually don't care for reman items in general. Especially stuff that is cheap. there is only one way to get a cheap reman part and that is by sacrificing quality.

Mau. Since this thread was/is about injectors, I did not feel it necessary to say "injector" in my post.

I actually have had really good luck out of my idiotzone starter, 5 years and still going strong

personally, i like autozone better than pep boys and adv.auto parts

sometimes something they "fix" actually works. seriously, a starter is not that complicated, so rebuilding it should be easy for people who do it all day(then again you would think they would make a burger or drink right at the fast food joint, thats all they do.)

WRT title of this thread .................

If you ever had an injector in your hands, it should be obvious that other than simply cleaning the terminals and running a cleaning solution (acetone or toluene etc based stuff) through its mechanical bits, there is nothing that anybody can do to the thing to improve it "performance"

At best a "re-manufactured" injector is thus a cleaned injector.

Injectors cannot be "balanced" - nobody can get to either the electrical coil or the pintle seat to tweak any parameter without disassembling the metal body of the injector (destructive process) and then having to manufacture a new metal body.

Injectors cannot be "rebuilt" at even a fairly high price because the mechanical construction of the metal body makes it financially uneconomical/impossible to do compared to the price of new units.

yeah i know what you mean. 3.5 years of me taking the orders right and 3.5 years of the lazy crackheads they called "employees" screwing up everything I tried to do right. and just because it's got a 98 sanitation score doesn't mean jack. for what i saw at my own score we should have had a 70 but we got a 96. they just know a week in advance when to clean the store up, it's nice for a day, then back to the old tricks. let's just say that it was not at all uncommon for the backline people to take fries and nuggets out of the bin, dunk them (maybe even double dip) into the ketchup pan used for sandwiches...

so yea even tho they make starters every day, if they get into a habit of not doing them right... they never end up right.