Do they really work ?? (Car Fuel Ionizers)

[Cadey]

I have never heard of one before and for £30 I suppose its worth finding out as if it really does do what it says then it will save us money, only thing is, is it safe ?

Quote From the Site that i found it on.

More mileage,less pollution and less fuel. Converts approximately 30% of the neutral ions within petrol to produce usable energy.Ionizes the petrol in the tank. By energising the dead,inactive ions in petrol you get a more complete burning ratio,works aswell on unleaded petrol,diesel and farm machinery,including home heating furnace systems. The fuel in your tank is burned more efficiently resulting in less carbon by-products,less wear and tear on the engine and reduced emissions. Better mileage and reduction of fuel consumption-spend less on petrol and save the environment. 2-3 minutes to install! Results show 10-50% fuel savings

[bstardchild]

I have never heard of one before and for £30 I suppose its worth finding out as if it really does do what it says then it will save us money, only thing is, is it safe ?

Quote From the Site that i found it on.

More mileage,less pollution and less fuel. Converts approximately 30% of the neutral ions within petrol to produce usable energy.Ionizes the petrol in the tank. By energising the dead,inactive ions in petrol you get a more complete burning ratio,works aswell on unleaded petrol,diesel and farm machinery,including home heating furnace systems. The fuel in your tank is burned more efficiently resulting in less carbon by-products,less wear and tear on the engine and reduced emissions. Better mileage and reduction of fuel consumption-spend less on petrol and save the environment. 2-3 minutes to install! Results show 10-50% fuel savings

IMHO - complete PONY!!!!

[Cadey]

traids description act then i take it

[GroovyCarrot]

I don't know if they actually work or not, but certainly the description given there is a load of b*******s.. either it's someone trying to con you with a duff product or it's someone who just doesn't understand what these things are actually meant to be doing to your petrol..

[Tahrey1043]

wtf does that actually mean?

i never knew petrol was an ionised compound in the first place

(neutral ions? i didn't know such things existed - an ion is either negative or positive, and if something's ionically combined ie the opposite charges have bonded and neutralised its a bugger to separate. and what the hell its got to do with something that explodes is anyones guess)

[Josh_PoloGTi]

My friend's Parents used to sell "Fuel Cat"'s (check them out on Google).

Fuel Cat quoted a 15% fuel saving on their adverts, however in genuine tests my mates folks found an 8-9% saving.... Which is still better than nothing.

With the increase in fuel prices recently, I've been looking into these!!

[GroovyCarrot]

Mm, I have a pair of those magnet thingeys that are meant to save fuel.. didn't really know if they worked but they were £3 and seemed worth a try. They don't seem to actually have made any difference at all though, so I wouldn't say they're the best buy I've ever made.

Back to the dodgy description, petrol consists of various hydrocarbon molecules, which are covelantly bonded so anything to do with ions or ionisation doesn't really enter into things.. I'm sure there are ions or ionic compounds in there as additives or whatever, but there's no such thing as a neutral ion anyway so that's irrelevant.. a neutral ion would just be an atom..

Does it say exactly how this thing works? My guess is that it's just a strong magnet that wraps around the fuel line like pretty much any other fuel saver..

[Tahrey1043]

i'll have an "extra tall 6th gear on a diesel" please bob thatll do

(ok josh, let us in on the secret, what are they made out of? i'm kind of disappointed in how i only got 47mpg today when i thought i was driving near the lower limit of tolerable slowness)

is bob holness still alive? if not then his passing was one of the great unmarked tragedies of our time.

ps while we're on the subject - beware of ASDA FastLane pay-at-pump card machines right now. they've just undergone a major software revision and it would be fair to say it's chock full of stupid bugs. went through the service station at 1am, not one of the pumps would take my debit card (one "refer to kiosk", one flat refusal to accept any object into it's interior, two "card not accepteds" oddly different from each other in fine details) - and the final one gobbled it right up and wouldn't give back. It didn't even say authorising - declined, just kept on displaying Insert Card. MFer.... eventually went into the store, one of the staff came out and retrieved it for me. Apparently he's got quite proficient at it over the last couple days.

[Karl_CLCoupe]

From what a relative reckons, the magnets that are meant to ionise the fuel don't make too much of a difference. He tallied up the Mpg for his car before installation, and tallied up after, and only had an extra 2 Mpg (and whos to say that that wasn't through driving differently?).

[jon_poloV]

[quote="tallied up after, and only had an extra 2 Mpg (and whos to say that that wasn't through driving differently?).[/quote]
very true!
you can never really tell i think

[pukka]

If it doesn't work in your car, you could always wrap the magnet round the main water pipe in your home. Might be more effective as a water softener/limescale reducer... maybe

I think these magnet things have been around for a long time. If they really did work (and produced even just a little fuel saving) wouldn't car manufacturers fit them to their cars as standard?

Regards.