CALCULATE SAVINGS

Rule of Thumb Guide

 

Use this page to calculate the savings achievable by fitting a De-Bug unit.

Engine specifications vary but, as a rough guide, your engine should need:

·         Fuel Filter changes every 500 hours or 10,000 km.

·         Injectors adjusted every 25,000 kilometres.

·         Injector tips replaced every 100,000 kilometres

·         O-rings may need replacement at 100,000 km.

·         Injection pumps should last the life of an engine.

If you get less than this, you are doing unnecessary maintenance.

A basic budget should allow for 4 filters a year for most vehicle engines or up to 18 filters a year for engines working constantly. Using a $10 filter as an example, this gives an annual cost of:

 

·         $40 for each vehicle in the fleet

·         $180 for other applications working 24 hours daily.

Most companies do not achieve these figures. The performance of individual engines is variable. Some do better than others.   Many engines change filters weekly or even every two to three days. Some even only manage 2 to 6 hours.

Check your own fleet maintenance figures. You may be in for a shock!

DE-BUG extends filter life by at least 400%. In fact, in a real example, the RIVO test, filter life was extended from 2 weeks to 56 weeks - an increase of 2700%! This won't happen in every case, but using the $10 filter and a filter life extended by 400% as an example, this table gives you an idea of the savings available to a Company running 100 vehicles:

Annual Filter Costs ($)

De-Bug not fitted			De-Bug fitted		Savings
Filters changed			Filters changed
every 3 days	112,000		every 15 days	24,300	87,700
every week	52,000		every 5 weeks	10,400	41,600
every 2 weeks	26,000		every 10 weeks	5,200	20,800
every month	12,000		every 5 months	2,400	9,600
every three months	4,000		every 15 months	800	3,200

Obviously, this ignores the additional costs of injectors, o-rings and lost production.

If you want to get a more accurate idea of how much you could save, here's how to calculate your savings:

No of engines x changes annually x cost of filters = your filter bill

Divide this by 5 and you'll be looking at your minimal saving on filters alone.

 

ADDITIONAL SAVING

Injectors should be replaced every two years. Ask your maintenance engineer for a breakdown of costs that shows:

 

·         no of injectors repaired

·         cost of new injector sets

Then add up the number of unnecessary repairs and their cost. Contaminated diesel is what's causing them and that cost can be eliminated by De-bug.

Another cost that can be eliminated is frequent repair or replacement of injection pumps. Ask your Maintenance Engineer for a breakdown of:

 

·         no of injection pumps repaired

·         cost of each injection pump repair

Now calculate your savings:

Filter saving + Injector saving + Injector pump saving

All that's left to do now is add the average fuel efficiency savings of 13%

Makes sense doesn’t it.