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Maintenance & Repair Fuel and Oil Additives
1246 messages, Last post on Sep 28, 2009 at 7:37 AM
You are in the Maintenance & Repair Forum. Your Host is mr_shiftright
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Our HOST is a well recognized expert in all things automotive! He shared his views on this earlier and I feel the same way! Every time gas prices spike, these "miracle stories" abound. **trying to keep my mouth shut***
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Replying to: isellhondas (Sep 15, 2005 5:58 pm) |
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Since there's Chevron's techron fuel additive for purchase off the shelves, why doesn't Shell make their own fuel additive in a bottle or can? Would it cost too much for them to pursue this kind of goal? I would definitely buy one of those(even though i do not clearly know the exact additives/chemicals they use but they sure do work pretty well for my car), with perspective to the cost of the BG44k product of course 
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too many SKUs to deal with, whatever, but they haven't joined the parade of little plastic bottles that replace the service bay that some oil companies have. maybe it's because the shelf is already full and it's spilled into the aisles. notice that V-Power is only billed in their premium gas line. where the extra detergent is probably needed to keep customers from screaming when the slower-burning premium fuel used in regular engines builds up carbon on the valves. or I may just be cynical. usually the only "mechanic in a can" that works jumps when you bang hard on the door of the can and tell him/her/it to get their, uh, case back into the shop, the sports page will be the same at lunch.
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Replying to: swschrad (Sep 16, 2005 7:16 pm)
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Replying to: arkfirefighter (Sep 19, 2005 8:47 am)
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| being as it is not street-legal for environmental aspect according to Federal law. in inspection states, you can't get it licensed, either. just because a car owner can remove the tires from the wheels does not make it the thing to do because it saves precious rubber. | |
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The state i live in, you used to have to have emissions testing, they stoped making it mandatory with in the past 2 years, but have the shell of a cat mounted around the exaust pipe, so it looks like a cat, and with the acetone that was supposed to lower emisions by 60%, some how it passed emissions testing 2 years in a row, at 2 different places.. i guess if it looks like a cat maybe it will fool the emissions testing? with a 351 5.8, i dont see any other way it would pass on its own.. to me and alot of the guys at the dept, thats proof enough for us....lol oh by the way you can sell your car/truck with out the cats, all you have to state is it was that way when i bought it... its done all the time around here....lol
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| selling a car without a functioning antipollution system when it was designed for one is a federal rap. something like $10,000 fine max. however, it's up to state licensing/inspections to catch it. that's like trying to get the plumbing fixed in FemaTown after the hurricanes roar through, but it's still the law. | |
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Sep 19, 2005 8:52 am) "believing a chemist who says don't do it." And just who signs this chemist's pay check?
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