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Fuel savers
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FN2 Type R +MK6 Golf
I just googled the question:
lots of forum comments regarding these fuel savers(alleged fuel savers!).
General oppinion is ,as I suspected, they are just a myth.
In fact the US TV show Mythbusters,(shown in uk on satellite) debunked the myth last year .....IT is a con.......or at least just mythology...from which some individuals are making upwards of £8 per unsuspecting punter...........
lots of forum comments regarding these fuel savers(alleged fuel savers!).
General oppinion is ,as I suspected, they are just a myth.
In fact the US TV show Mythbusters,(shown in uk on satellite) debunked the myth last year .....IT is a con.......or at least just mythology...from which some individuals are making upwards of £8 per unsuspecting punter...........
i think he means tyres they branding on tyres i think continental which were std on some renaults but im unsure my dynamique has continental our 02 clio expression has michelins :S
they reduce your co2 as well acording to continental
i knew it ive seen them on a senic an they on my model smart lol
they reduce your co2 as well acording to continental
i knew it ive seen them on a senic an they on my model smart lol
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Monaco Blue 172
wtf? anybody want to explain the science behind this one then? lol
Racing blue 182 turbo :-)
Be mad to put that on your car lol
A red missile
I've seen stuff like this advertised on those crappy home shopping channels on sky, they claim that the magnets in these thing 'align' the molecules in your fuel/air mix and make the engine run smoother - sounds like total b****cks to me. Simple but important point, if they worked at all every car manufacturer would fit them to every new car, makes me laugh when you look at car companies R&D budget but some mug working in a bedroom can save you loads of fuel with a few magnets, yeah, and i've got 2 nobs.
Clio 1.4 '95 RT
Car companies will not always fit the best as standard. Why sell a car at one off that costs £20,000 and lasts 20 years when you can sell two at £15,000 that last 10 years each.
Probably snake oil but I suppose less rolling resistance is something to do with the saving in petrol.
The tests were probably conducted in an endurance type situation on an oval track and the saving was calculated that way so under normal driving I doubt they would make a huge difference, unless you were doing 300+ miles a week on the motorway and the wind speed / direction, road surface, grade of oil in the engine....... and a million other variables were no different to your usual motoring then maybe there is a chance a saving could be made with these tyres.
Even small things like having a window open or putting mudflaps on your car can waste petrol by creating drag.
If you want to save fuel realistically it costs f all; just change your driving style and a few habits when you take the car out and you will see a saving in the long term.
The tests were probably conducted in an endurance type situation on an oval track and the saving was calculated that way so under normal driving I doubt they would make a huge difference, unless you were doing 300+ miles a week on the motorway and the wind speed / direction, road surface, grade of oil in the engine....... and a million other variables were no different to your usual motoring then maybe there is a chance a saving could be made with these tyres.
Even small things like having a window open or putting mudflaps on your car can waste petrol by creating drag.
If you want to save fuel realistically it costs f all; just change your driving style and a few habits when you take the car out and you will see a saving in the long term.
ford focus
since i bought mine ive been driving in high gears i think its made a difference
Clio 172 LHD
What about that ECOTEK stuff that you spray into the air intake? Loads of good press and supposed towork on engines that have done over 20,000 miles. £40 seems like a good buy?
I believe in science, ie, evidence.
And, this might surprise you, but the oil industry has been looking very seriously at precisely what happens when you expose hydrocarbons to strong magnetic fields in an attempt to reduce the amount of energy it takes to pump crude through pipelines. They've been looking at it precisely because they've found that strong magnetic fields do affect the properties of hydrocarbons in very interesting ways. And the effect isn't just while the oil passes through the field, it lasts for some time afterwards.
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9871-zapped-crude-oil-flows-faster-through-pipes.html
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/enfuem/2006/20/i05/abs/ef060072x.html
I laughed when I saw the research, because a famous motor racing figure in this country, Peter Brock, was openly laughed at and discredited and the permssion GM-Holden had given him to build performance versions of its cars was withdrawn after he promoted an idea just like these "fuel savers", and, now, a decade later, science has discovered that something like them might actually do exactly what the manufacturers of them claim.
Do I believe that that these particular products work as claimed? No. But do I believe they do something? Yes.
And, this might surprise you, but the oil industry has been looking very seriously at precisely what happens when you expose hydrocarbons to strong magnetic fields in an attempt to reduce the amount of energy it takes to pump crude through pipelines. They've been looking at it precisely because they've found that strong magnetic fields do affect the properties of hydrocarbons in very interesting ways. And the effect isn't just while the oil passes through the field, it lasts for some time afterwards.
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9871-zapped-crude-oil-flows-faster-through-pipes.html
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/enfuem/2006/20/i05/abs/ef060072x.html
I laughed when I saw the research, because a famous motor racing figure in this country, Peter Brock, was openly laughed at and discredited and the permssion GM-Holden had given him to build performance versions of its cars was withdrawn after he promoted an idea just like these "fuel savers", and, now, a decade later, science has discovered that something like them might actually do exactly what the manufacturers of them claim.
Do I believe that that these particular products work as claimed? No. But do I believe they do something? Yes.
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Clio 172 mk2
You might as well pi** down the inlet and save your money lol
ford focus
anyone see it on top gear where they got a diesel running on chip fat
Plenty of people are doing that.
I looked at the possibility of setting up a business to collect and process used cooking fat, and found that someone was already doing it, and had the market pretty well locked up.
It legal here (South Australia), but I understand there were or are legality issues in the UK. You're not allowed to run your car on anything without paying excise on the fuel. And its really easy to detect that a car is running on used cooking oil. You can smell it.
big difference between big magnetic fields and those created by a few samall rare earth magnets
Just pay the exercise duty on the fuel (there a form you fill in saying how much your paying for as such) and your legal.
