Stock injectors vs remanufactured ones on a 6.0 Powerstroke

I spent a whole Saturday swapping out injectors on my buddy's 2005 F-350 in Austin. He wanted to save cash and bought remanufactured ones from a parts store. I told him I'd help but I was skeptical from the start. After three hours of fighting with stiction and rough idle, we finally got them in. Truck ran okay but still had a miss at low RPM. Two weeks later one started chattering and he had to pull it again. I run OEM stock injectors on my own 6.0 and I've never had that problem. Has anyone else had better luck with one over the other?

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vera_sanchez1mo ago

Bought cheap bought twice buddy, remans are just paying for someone else's headache.

sanchez.sean1mo ago

I gotta push back on that "bought cheap bought twice" thing because my experience has been the opposite. I've ran remanned injectors from a reputable rebuilder for 40k miles now with zero issues, just made sure they were flow matched and tested first (which a lot of parts store ones aren't, fair enough). Your buddy's problem sounds more like a bad batch or a poor rebuilder than a blanket rule about remans being junk.