Ran into this... Theres no way that this thing works, but it actually has positive product reviews???

Can I trust product reviews any more?

FUEL SAVERS - MAGNETIC - JCWhitney Auto Parts

If all car companies had to do was stick a magnet somewhere in their fuel system to "dramatically increase fuel economy" I'm almost certain they would be doing it already...

 

I believe that the product has been tested and found to not do anything. I'd save my money myself.

 

i think the people that actually think those work are the same people who buy the crap off 2 am infomercials and swear its the greatest invention ever.

 

Whenever there's a gas shortage, or a big price increase, the scammers come out of the woodwork.

How many here remember the "Gas Saver" pill you dropped into your tank?

Or the Mileage Minder, advertised in M/T (and other rags) back in the dark ages...that was spliced into the fuel line?

All this crap, including the latest wheeze = the tornado, are as worthless as **** on a mule.

If these things really worked, one a two things would occur:

The car makers would install them, or more likely, the oil companies would buy up the rights to keep them off the market!

Any one here remember a film called The Formula?

It was based on fact. The oil companies bought up a synthetic fuel alternative invented by German scientists during WWII.

 

http://energie.wallonie.be/servlet/R...&saveFile=true

Université de Liège
Faculté des Sciences Appliquées

When fuel prices are high, consumers often look for ways to reduce fuel consumption
and improve fuel efficiency. Many inventors propose fuel saving products. Some of
these products may be referred to filters, catalysts or the like, working on the principle
that a special magnetic field applied to the fuel can improve combustion.

Many of these magnetic devices have been patented and produced in order to reduce
fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. This kind of device must be clamped to the
outside of the fuel line or installed in the fuel line.

The most usual inventors’ claims are that magnetic field can:
- Break up clusters of hydrocarbon molecules (even if these clusters are
nonexistent in hydrocarbons),
- Convert hydrocarbons to positive ions which would be strongly attracted by
the negatively charged oxygen molecules,
- Change hydrocarbons molecules from its para spin state to the higher
energized ortho state.

None of these claims are supported by any scientific experiments and there is no
evidence that magnetic field can modify fuel molecules.

Moreover, modern systems are more and more efficient at burning fuels and there are
few unburned hydrocarbons and CO emissions. The consumption improvement that
could be expected by using such a device would be very low (to the order of the
measurement tolerance) and not 5-20% as may be claimed.

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has tested some of these devices. They
conclude that vehicles equipped with these devices does not show any improvement
in fuel economy or in emissions reduction. [1-5].

 

I notice Z-max ads hot and heavy on Speed. The wild-*** claims are a hoot. P.T.Barnum was right!

Jim

 

if you pay me enough, i will give your garbage a positive product review and endorsement also.

 

I'm surprised it doesn't come in a package offer: 10% off when you buy a fuel magnet and throttle body spacer!

 

I'd only buy it if Billy Mays was advertising it.

 

I have a special piece of duct tape. I stuck it on the front bumper and fuel mileage increased 8%.

 

We can't keep z-max on the shelves at work, people are snapping it up pretty fast. Come to think of it we haven't got any in a order in a while, must have gone on backorder.

 

Two words: use logic!

 

Bill,

I hope you are too smart to believe the Fish carburator myth.

As for German synthetic fuel, the oil companies did not want the technology to withhold it from the market, but to keep around for future wars. Texaco ran experiments in 1946 to get practical experience in how it works, not to "hide" it for evil reasons. Synthetic fuel was too expensive to produce compared to refined crude until now. Airbus, Boeing and the US Air Force are testing synthetic jet successfully today. When South Africa was under embargo a while back, Sasol came up with improved methods. The patents are shared with Chevron. Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil are building synthetic fuel plants now in Australia and Quatar. Google "Fisher-Tropsch".

Is The Formula available on DVD for rent? Of course, if it is a Hollywood movie, based on history, it has to be accurate, right?

Jim