When you buy a vehicle, the vehicle does not always come with the best parts of everything. Instead, the common practice, if you do not customize a car beforehand, is to provide a vehicle with stock parts that work for the average customer. Like vehicles that come with high-performance turbochargers as stock can actually be bought slightly cheaper without the turbocharger. However, most vehicles have the options for stock replacement and high-performance injectors and here’s why you should consider stock replacement and high-performance injectors.
What Are Injectors?
Injectors deliver fuel into your engine and without them, well, your fuel wouldn’t go anywhere and neither would you. Stock injectors work as needed, but high-performance injectors provide more horsepower, torque and fuel efficiency that stock injectors can’t match. This is great for customers who want a stock replacement and high-performance injectors like light duty trucks or passenger vehicles that need an extra kick.
And there are plenty of cars that could take advantage of a good stock replacement and high-performance injectors. Dealerships in America sold 16.4 million passenger cars and light trucks and since many trucks utilize diesel, it is only natural to want a high-performance injector.
Trucks provide a service that passenger cars just can’t do. Their capability to haul large loads is due in part of their diesel powered engines. Trucks that brandished weight ratings of 10,001 and up in America, abou 72 percent, were powered by diesel.
However, not all trucks are diesel powered, and even some passenger cars are. In fact, only 1.5 percent of Model Year 2014 light duty vehicles were actually powered by diesel while 2016 saw 8 million passenger vehicles, powered by diesel, hit the road in America.
Stock Replacement: OEM Vs. Aftermarket
Your vehicle, like everything in the universe, is subject to entropy; at some point parts need replaced. Maintaining your vehicle is always a good thing, until it isn’t. In fact, if you own a vehicle with turbocharger, all the more reason to maintain it considering 90 percent of turbochargers fail due to inadequate maintenance like dirt in the oil, or not enough oil, high exhaust temperature and obviously, foreign bodies like collisions striking the turbine. Regardless, manufacturers known that your vehicle’s parts won’t last forever and provide exact replacement parts.
It is first good to know what aftermarket parts are and OEM, or alternative known as Original Equipment Manufacturer. OEM parts are copies of that part straight from the same manufacturer as your vehicle. If you bought a brand new car off the assembly line, OEM is what you will find. As for aftermarket parts, they are parts that are basically the same but have been outsourced to other companies to make. Sometimes you will find the parts you need at a cheaper price but do not let that fool you.
OEM parts are best for the average car owner. If you need a part replaced, you do not have to worry about sifting through hundreds of different versions of the same piece, hoping you found the right one; quality stays the same, and this is especially good if the part you’re replacing had a good life. And lastly, OEM parts come with a warranty, nor will they void the warranty of your car.
Aftermarket parts are more for the car owner that has more knowledge of cars than the average. You can walk into any auto store and probably find all the powerstroke diesel parts and 5.9 Cummins injectors you’re looking for. You might get lucky and find a replacement piece that is cheaper and offers the same quality but without knowledge of said piece, it’ll be difficult for the average car owner to know this. However, that cheaper price tag is two-sided. Sure, it might have been cheaper, but it could be because the materials used were cheaper. And lastly, you flip a coin when it comes to warranty.
