This stuff is only sold at NAPA. My bottle cost me $32, which sucks--but
>I'm saving about $7 on every tank, so do the math.
The way I see it, if the the price of one gallon of fuel remains constant, then the cost to fill your tank will remain the same, regardless of your MPG, do the math! Going from 10 to 13 MPG will save you about $.04-.05 per mile. If you commute
3000 miles a month, as I do, you will save about $135 a month. Going to a Honda hybrid would save $480 a month and the car would pay for itself after less than four years.
I'm figuring an extra 4 MPG per gallon (the difference between 9 and
13). On my 15 gallon tank, that's 60 miles extra per tank. One gallon provides 13 miles or travel, and 13 into 60 is 4.6. figure a gallon at $1.60 per gallon, multiply that by 4.6 and you come out to $7.36 per tankful.
Also, a honda hybrid i can't insure for full coverage at $120 a year, nor get away with a $60 registration fee ESPECIALLY here in the People's Republic of California :)
And God help you if you want to fix something like an alternator! On my car that's a $40 part and 20 mins of easy labor. What's it cost on the Honda? :)
You may get lousy mileage but you make up for it in a whole lot of areas compared to a new car.
If you've got answer on how anything ELSE could be responsible, I'd love to know.
Same car. Same gas from my local station. Engine rebuilt a year ago and getting a constant 9-10 MPG city, Summer, fall, winter, spring, and summer again, through several different oil changes until I drop the triobotech in, then IMMEDIATELY up to 13 MPG thru 2 tankfuls with no change in driving habits and no highway driving. I did NOTHING to the car except change oil brands to Quaker State, and drop in the tribotech. And, as I mentioned, our local car call-in show mechanics swear by the stuff, and if this is an example of what it does, i can see why
The best I ever got out of that car on a regular basis was 12 MPG when we had the better gas going, I kicked in some additives to the Premium i was running, and drove like a grandma with a little combined city/highway thrown in. Otherwise it was 9-10 MPG in normal city driving with normal, unmodified 87 octane california gas. Again, I'd like to hear YOUR explanation because if it's something else, everyone here would love to know what it is, starting with me.
It's hard to bitch over saving $7 a tankful, whatever the hell has caused my new mileage bonus
My bad Vince. I read your first post in a hurry, and assumed you were just pushing a product, similar to other spams i've seen. Bad case of typing first, thinking second.
trust me--that car is tuned and timed perfectly. I mean perfectly, including pertonix ignition and carb adjusted using vacuum gauge for maximum efficiency. Now rejetting might help, but no adjustment could.
When i got into the discussion before, another califorina driver, as i recall, had mentioned his motor was pulling about the same mileage down in san diego.
our freakin oxygenated gas here in this state i'm sure is 90% of the problem
Fine. All claims that have been made by ALL the other additives, none of which has been proven effective by indisputable means. If this stuff actually worked, why wouldn't industry add it to all oil and cut the nation's fuel bill by "X" percentage? Also, what are they calling the teflon they are using (like ALL those additives) in it? I'm sure they have some cutesy name.
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