Another fule saving gimick

[aldive]

Has anyone tried this gimick?

http://www.fuels-savers.com/

 

[Sky1785]

If its not just a gimick and its outrageously expensive, that seems nice

 

[unabonked]

Well its a load of bull. Besides snake oil what do most usless infomercial type products have in common? MAGNETS! It is all about the magnets here. Because Neither carbon, oxyogen or hydrogen have magnetic properties, this device can't possibly do anything to the fuel inside the hose it clamps on to.

1. The website is very carful to avoid explaining how it really works (materials used, mathmatical representation, indipendant verfifiable tests). They just say it does. Not only that, in their FAQ they are asked if its too good to be true. They answer in a way that Isuzu Bob would be proud of: "t is hard to believe that a technology this good is not being used by everyone.
In time perhaps this will happen. With financial and Environmental pressures, it is hard to believe this technology is not used by everyone. However, millions of units have been sold as this product is sold in over 70 countries." (BTW i didn't misspell the "it" at the begining of the quote, they did!)

2. The device appears to be an RF choke. It costs about 4 bucks at radioshack. Judging from its size it is probably for Ham radio antennas, but i can't be sure. You can also find such devises on cords on USB cables, laptop power cords, and other devices that have very high frequency EM waves, making them suseptable to interfierence.

3. Anyone know of a general motors company? Last time I checked it was General Motors CORPERATION.

4. Oh yeah, In its tests page, it says Ford Motor Company tested them... yet the subject cars are a Dodge and a VW. Why would Ford try and prove a device would increase on OTHER manufactur's cars but noth their own.... Hmm....

 

[Robb]

......but it made all the fuel "dots" line up so pretty!

Any similarity between what that site talks about, and reality, is purely coincidental!

 

[swak6287]

actually, just fyi. i have a 99 with drilled airbox, knn and a windjammer. this last few month i have been running about 350-375miles on a tank..no joke. when i refuel, usually it fills up to 19.5 or 20 gallon. it's a sohc stock tires.
just thought i share that. it now has 50k miles on it.

 

[Robb]

.......and this pertains to the thread how?

 

[Blue Steel]

ummm... carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen all have magnetic properties. chemists use their magnetic properties to identify unknown organic compunds through nuclear magnetic resonnance. anyhow, that thing sounds WAY too good to be true. coming from a physics and chemist standpoint, all that thing will do is "line up" the carbon chains so they do look all pretty, but forcing them through the pump line to the engine, by the time the chains get to the engine, most of them will be back to their usual unalligned form. alligning the molecules does not mean that it will induce a chemical reaction any faster, since the oxygen in the air also needs to be alligned too, and we all know that's not happening any time soon.

 

[MONMIX]

Very obserbvant unaboknked. I didn't even pick up on the General Motors Company / corperation thing.

 

[X24]

A guy that my father works with has one. he said that it works. Not 27% but it works. He gave me all sorts of information on it. The one he has is called the fuelmaster. It claims 11.6% and costs $60. My dad is thinking of getting one. Personally, I wouldnt get one only because my truck is running fine as is and with my luck it would mess something up.

 

[mosinman]

can't believe these products still surface from the cesspools. All of these clamp on fuel savers have been tested by reputable labs and entities such as CONSUMER REPORTS and found to be junk, junk, junk. If it sounds too good to be true..........

 

[aldive]

Originally posted by mosinman
can't believe these products still surface from the cesspools

,,,,,, to say nothing for the folks who purchase them.