My mate at work took his wagon into the main agent for service and was asked by one of the fitters there if we’d be interested in buying these fuel saving additive tablets that could cut consumption by 20%
Seemingly this was something not being offered through the dealer but a sideline being operated by himself, now I’ve never heard of these things and I checked that it wasn’t April 1st. “Apparently” various companies have trialled them and reckon they are amazing.
Being cynical I instantly avoid anything that someone tries to sell me and I’ve already decided that this must be a load of old ■■■■■■■■. Anyone going to change my mind?
Just how does a tablet in your tank tell your engine it suddenly don’t need as much fuel!!. We had some salesman at the truckfest trying to sell it to us at the truckfest.
Biggest load of tosh ive heard in long time,but I bet someone took the bait !!
8wheels:
I had a nasty bang on the head last week , obviously it didn’t make me lose my marbles completely! Thought it sounded like a complete load of tosh.
The only thing that I wondered if it was somehow a way of producing a bigger bang in the combustion cycle.
Disclaimer, I am a mechanical idiot and know nothing about anything or the way it works. I sometimes stare in wonder at a light switch.
Maybe you should take one of these tablets for your sore head you got from that nasty bump.
Physics is a well-understood science, and has been for well over a hundred years now. There isn’t a magic tablet you can drop into your fuel tank that will give you 20% better fuel consumption, and if there was, then Volvo/Scania/Daf/Mercedes-Benz would have known about it long before some night-shift grease-monkey at the local garage.
Got catapulted on to a concrete step and landed on my head, followed by shoulder, elbow and knees. People thought I was hard and had been fighting in the pub until I tell them it happened in the park when I came off the slide.
Top tip, if you must sit on your coat when racing down a slide make sure that your bloody great size 13 feet do not slip off and touch the slide. Especially if you have your knees drawn up to your chest and have curled up into a ball.
Harry Monk:
Physics is a well-understood science, and has been for well over a hundred years now. There isn’t a magic tablet you can drop into your fuel tank that will give you 20% better fuel consumption, and if there was, then Volvo/Scania/Daf/Mercedes-Benz would have known about it long before some night-shift grease-monkey at the local garage.
+1. And Stobart would probably have a fleet full of pill popping trucks if they worked as stated.
Got catapulted on to a concrete step and landed on my head, followed by shoulder, elbow and knees. People thought I was hard and had been fighting in the pub until I tell them it happened in the park when I came off the slide.
Top tip, if you must sit on your coat when racing down a slide make sure that your bloody great size 13 feet do not slip off and touch the slide. Especially if you have your knees drawn up to your chest and have curled up into a ball.
Ouch. Well that will teach you for acting like a kid.
Got catapulted on to a concrete step and landed on my head, followed by shoulder, elbow and knees. People thought I was hard and had been fighting in the pub until I tell them it happened in the park when I came off the slide.
Top tip, if you must sit on your coat when racing down a slide make sure that your bloody great size 13 feet do not slip off and touch the slide. Especially if you have your knees drawn up to your chest and have curled up into a ball.
8wheels:
My mate at work took his wagon into the main agent for service and was asked by one of the fitters there if we’d be interested in buying these fuel saving additive tablets that could cut consumption by 20%
Seemingly this was something not being offered through the dealer but a sideline being operated by himself, now I’ve never heard of these things and I checked that it wasn’t April 1st. “Apparently” various companies have trialled them and reckon they are amazing.
Being cynical I instantly avoid anything that someone tries to sell me and I’ve already decided that this must be a load of old ■■■■■■■■. Anyone going to change my mind?
Complete ■■■■■■■■ I’m afraid
The only way an additive can improve fuel consumption would be to either dilute your diesel and yet still retain the same energy content (BTUs) or to increase the energy content of the fuel. Diesel Fuel has one of the highest BTU contents of any fuel, those with more energy cost more than the extra energy they produce could be produced by adding more fuel
The ones that make me laugh are the ones that promise to save fuel in both petrol and diesel engines and can also be added to engine/transmission/rear axle oil, five completely different things, two spirits and three very different oils, there is no one thing that can work in all of them
Do you want some magnets to put round the fuel lines as well?
I remember the adverts for that a few years back in the trade press.
Makes you think there’s scania Volvo merc etc downing billions on research and if it was feesable to produce a truck that done 15mpg they would probally have done so by now. Then some geezer in his garage in Crewe recons he finds the answer.
We had some salesman at the truckfest trying to sell it to us at the truckfest.
