Bogus Fuel-Saving Device Sellers diesel/gasoline - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

whunter · #1 12-29-2005, 05:32 PM

Bogus Fuel-Saving Device Sellers diesel/gasoline

Federal Trade Commission

Bogus Fuel-Saving Device Sellers Settle FTC Charges
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/05/fuel.htm

This trash is caught by the FTC all the time.

Tornado fuel saver
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/tech-help/28744-tornado-fuel-saver.html#post153820

Hydrogen Boost...What do you think of this?
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/alternative-fuels/149229-hydrogen-boost-what-do-you-think-post1130446.html

Fuel saving devices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_saving_devices

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/consumer/reports.htm

http://www.fuelsaving.info/

http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/cars/gas-save/gas.htm

http://www.bbbsilicon.org/topic178.html

Acetone In Fuel Said to Increase Mileage 15-35%
Acetone In Fuel Said to Increase Mileage 15-35%

Fuel saving devices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_saving_devices

Aftermarket fuel economy device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermarket_fuel_economy_device

Please do not fall for the false claims.

P. T. Barnum Never Did Say
"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute"
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Carleton Hughes · #2 12-30-2006, 06:09 PM

I personally find it hilarious when these hucksters attempt to subvert the laws of physics.

This stuff is nothing new,I recall from the '70's those circular magnets clamped around the fuel line,odd little graphite pills to be added with each gas refill and the best of all,the "cetri-boost"fuel oxygen separator,to be "installed by your mechanic",basically a glass bowl like an old-time fuel filter with a baffled aluminum cylinder plus a fan type vane that would spin around due to fuel flow so you could "watch it working".

Thanks for rekindling these memories.

jap · #3 05-07-2007, 06:24 PM

Anyone ever used this on their diesel? MB or light duty or semi

turbo3000D.com

heard a lot of good on XM radio 171 (a show called Trucking Business). Emailed the turbo 3000d guys and they said it would work but i would need to make my own kit to install it in front of the ip

TheDon · #4 05-07-2007, 06:30 PM

snake oil.. its crap

for one thing out engines wouldn't even benefit from anything like it because

A) they are indirect injection

B) we do not have a common rail injection system

it appears to be a piece of machined brass with some threads and a narrow entrance.. how can it somehow change the delivery of the fuel. its already getting their as effeicient as possible.. total crap I tells ya

jap · #5 05-07-2007, 06:42 PM

i've heard truckers using them getting 10% extra mpg. of course that could be driving style/speed/etc. And also, and mb is not a semi

babymog · #6 05-07-2007, 07:20 PM

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,069,19 1.PN.&OS=PN/5,069,191&RS=PN/5,069,191

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,148,79 4.PN.&OS=PN/5,148,794&RS=PN/5,148,794

Hey, it worked in a 2.2L carburated Dodge, should work in a 3L turbodiesel Mercedes.

It's a different angle on the fuel line magnet.

<Edit> Sorry, I should also have added ROFL!! to be clear on my opinion of these things. They improve the efficiency of the flow of money out of your wallet.

#7 05-08-2007, 12:19 AM

" The TURBO3000D works to improve atomization by creating a change in the travel pattern of the fuel, prior to the fuel injector"

This is the EXACT same claim all those fuel line magnet peddlers use.

Fact: There is nothing magnetic in the fuel to "line up". If there was, it would all collect at the magnet and plug the fuel line.

Do you have any idea how long it would take you to get any kind of return on the $225.00 that brass, stainless steel and aluminum thing costs?

DeliveryValve · #8 05-08-2007, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ForcedInduction

....Do you have any idea how long it would take you to get any kind of return on the $225.00 that brass, stainless steel and aluminum thing costs?

I have a trucker friend who has personally installed this thing on 16 Semis. (He uses his friends as guinea pigs before he installed it on his own truck.) He and his friends say they get a half or a mile increase in diesel mileage. He told me that little increase in fuel mileage transalates into saving of $200.00 from taking a load from California to Texas and back. Remember Semis only get something like 5 to 6 miles per gallon so every little bit helps. Any rate, my friend swears by this thing.

biobenz240d · #9 05-08-2007, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rmarzan

I have a trucker friend who has personally installed this thing on 16 Semis. (He uses his friends as guinea pigs before he installed it on his own truck.) He and his friends say they get a half or a mile increase in diesel mileage. He told me that little increase in fuel mileage transalates into saving of $200.00 from taking a load from California to Texas and back. Remember Semis only get something like 5 to 6 miles per gallon so every little bit helps. Any rate, my friend swears by this thing.

Whats in it for you. Do you own stock in the company? Lets see some real world data. Why don't you buy one and let us know how it works.

whunter · #10 06-08-2011, 11:15 PM

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