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Hi Tiger,

I didn't document a before and after, but did notice a bit of a rise in mpg on my '84 300SD. (If it was on the road) I get about 33 mpg (Canadian) in mixed driving. I've also tossed a little into the crankcase. And I'm still frigging witht hat stupid glowplug! I haven't jammed a smaller imperial socket on it yet, but I will on the weekend.

Tim Delaney

Candian miles or gallons, or both? Little or Imperial?

:-) DAS

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My diesel is an 84 300D. I use Lucas Upper cylinder lubricant in my diesel. I have run it without it for a couple of tanks and do notice a difference, both in fuel mileage and running quality. I haven't seen Startron. Where did you get this? I don't think that would hurt to run through a 23 year old fuel tank. How much is expensive? $20, $50? I didn't put any Lucas in this tank, I'll try some Marvel this weekend and see if it makes any difference. Just curious, do you work for either of these companies? I don't really care, but I would like to know if I'm being a test subject for a marketing campaign or something.

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OK, I'll give a try. The next time I fill up anyhow.

So I checked out the website. 8oz is not that bad ($12 a bottle, $20 shipped), so I ordered a bottle. I also bought a quart of MM Oil yesterday and put it in right before I filled up. I put about 16oz. in the fuel tank, and the rest (8oz or so) in the crankcase. Basically, just enough to top off the oil level. Thats probably overkill for the fuel, but I can get another quart next time and do the recommended treatment, its only about $3 a bottle. I'll report back in a few weeks with mileage comparisons and comments/ feelings on responsiveness and acceleration. Just for reference, I get about 24mpg with all city driving in my 84

That's great Doug... let me know how you make out.

Hey Tiger, I used some diesel fuel additive when I changed fuel filters. I filled the new filter with the stuff and wow what a difference in power! Also mpg went from 28 to 31 mixed driving on my 240d. Similar results on the 300sd power wise. Hope to get the mpg data soon.

I got the same result with diesel additive but most diesel additive cost like $9 per bottle and one bottle does one tank. So if ti cost us $55 to fill up the tank, this will bring us to $64 per tank... that's pricy.

Marvel Mystery Oil cost like $5 per 32oz and we can use it 4 times... which is only $1.25 per tank... that may add nearly 5 MPG extra so that's like extra 100 miles per tank for us... and only a penny for extra mile gained.

Has anyone tried the following additive, or know anything about it?

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