It is hardly ever enjoyable to experience an injector noise on your Kia Soul. It is a noise that arises regularly, usually when you accelerate or your engine is idling. However, this warning sign may be linked to multiple sort of concerns with your automobile injectors. It may not be anything serious, but when a continuing noise arises, you have to be sure. Most importantly since fixing your Kia Soul’s injectors can be expensive. That’s why our team chose to create this article in order to help you see more clearly, learn about the different possible failures and establish your problem. To do this, we will first look at the normal function and usefulness of the injectors in your Kia Soul, then at the possible causes from which an injector noise may come.
Purposes of the injectors
Injectors are a very important part of the operation of your engine. They were released to the modern cars about 20 years ago. Before their arrival, more conventional carburettor-type intake systems were employed, which handled the intake of air and fuel into the engine cylinders. With the injectors, manufacturers now have the possibility, thanks to the injectors pump, to control electronically each stage of the intake process very accurately (quantity of fuel injected, air/fuel mixture) via the analysis of the data accumulated from the various sensors equipping the automobile (engine temperature, acceleration level, engine speed, etc.). Their goal is therefore to inject under high pressure a precise quantity of an air/fuel mixture at a perfect timing to get the best possible combustion in the cylinders.
The different causes of a clicking or knocking noise based on the injectors of your Kia Soul
Listening injector noises on your Kia Soul may originate from different sources, we will now focus on the potential triggers of these. In most cases, the regular noise of a faulty injector is of the snap type. Here are the different sources of these noises and the solutions to be implemented to get rid of them. If you experience another clicking noise but it is not from your injectors, we advise you to browse this article about clicking noise on Kia Soul to locate the reason.
The explanations for injector clicking or knocking noise Kia Soul
A clicking or knocking noise from your injectors can be explained for different explanations. In fact, the injectors of your Kia Soul have three main missions, to manage the vaporisation of the fuel, i.e., to convert the liquid into “gas” during injection, to ease its combustion. Then, its objective is to deal with the air/fuel dosage and at last the homogeneity of the mixture, always with the goal of improving combustion. If one of these three attributes is altered, the main role of the injectors will be disrupted and this will lead to poor combustion. This bad combustion will be a violent explosion in the cylinders resulting from bad timing, or a bad quantity of mixture or finally an inhomogeneous mixture and will provoke thoses knocking or clicking noises on your Kia Soul. The main reason of these concerns usually comes from a particle that gets into the injectors. The precision of the injector being in the nanometer range, any possible obstruction will inevitably lead to a malfunction of the injector. If after checking, this noise comes from another element of the engine of your Kia Soul, have a look at this article for more infos.
The effects of injector noise on Kia Soul
Now that we have reviewed the diverse reasons for injector noise on your Kia Soul, we will end by stating the possible end result of malfunctioning one or more of your injectors. Whether only one is clogged, or broken, or your entire fuel rail is involved, you cannot escape these repercussions which can fairly quickly become serious….
First, you risk destroying your exhaust unit in the long run, because the unburned fuel residues that will end up in your exhaust system can corrode the metal in it.
One of the most common repercussions experienced by drivers is a serious loss of power. In fact, if your engine is running on 3 out of 4 cylinders for example, you will obviously have a loss of power
Finally, you risk degrading one of your pistons or your engine. Poor combustion will fairly quickly affect your cylinders or pistons and your engine may tighten.
Here are three little suggestions to limit the risks linked to your injectors and protect you from engine failure:
- Do not drive at the bottom of the tank, as you may absorb impurities
- Use quality fuel
- Think of changing your diesel fuel filter regularly>
