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I strongly recommend that before using ANY additive, no matter what it promises the benefits will be, look up the MSDS for that additive. Just google "(additive name) MSDS" and you will probably get several choices of sites to look at.
Some additives will say that the ingredients are "trade secrets" and will only be given to "qualified medical professionals", but many will give the ingredients, and even a percentage range of each ingredient in the mixture.
The ingredients are quite likely Acetone, light petroleum distillate (diesel fuel, kerosene, or 3-in-one oil) and IPA (IsoPropyl Alcohol).
Once you know what is in it, you can make a well informed decision as to whether or not you want the stuff in your fuel!
If you really want to use it, you can go to any hardware store that carries paint and supplies, and make your own by the gallon instead of buying 12 oz. bottles!
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unless your car is designed for premium, dont waste your money, if your car performs badly on regular gas, then you have an issue that needs taken care of, even cars that specify premium can run regular, it will just pull the timing back and you wont perform as well. but all cars are made to run on 87 octane min. most additives are snake oil. seafoam is one of the better ones but it works better of you let the engine suck in about half a bottle then shut it off and wait about 15 min and then go out and drive it like you stole it. also the best carbon cleaner for the combustion chamber is good old tap water, you take a 20 oz bottle of water and let the engine suck that up small amounts at the time dont just dump it in,. and do that a few times . the tops of the pistons and combustion chamber will be clean as a whistle, even better is if you could rig up your washer pump to sparay it in while you are driving down the road, up hill really getting on it loading the engine down. it really works great then.
In reciprocating engine aircraft, that is known as "Anti-Detonation Injection fluid". I used to mix the stuff when I was in the Navy many years ago. 55 gallons of Denatured Alcohol (can't have pure grain alcohol around a bunch of Sailors, y'know, they would likely drink the stuff!), 55 gallons of Distilled Water, and 2 gallons of water soluble cutting oil (to lubricate the pump).
It was used only on take-off or other periods of high manifold pressure and high combustion chamber pressures to minimize detonation (pinging).
It worked well.
regular gas + the additive is equal to regular gasoline + the additive
Water and champagne are both liquid, but you can't make champagne by adding an additive to water
No, you can't make true Champagne, but by adding flavoring, grain alcohol, and carbon dioxide you can, with experimentation, make a very nice sparkling wine!
Makes ya wonder just how ignorant can a society be and survive. Folks dumping all kinds of chemicals in their gas, oil, and engines and haven't got the faintest idea what's in the formulation. They just know somebody, somewhere, said that it is good stuff and since Uncle Joe used it, it's the best. STP Fuel Treatment is bottle of kerosene and a little naphtha. So at the price paid, that's about $30.00 a gallon for kerosene. All you would have needed to do was search for the MSDS on it and in most cases, the formula is right in front of you. If you don't understand it, usually the CAS numbers are right there for you to search. But then, you have to be smart enough to read and that seems to be an issue these days. All a company has to do is advertise it on TV and the world believes it to be true. Here's the MSDS for those Google challenged: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...,d.cGw&cad=rja
The additives you need in your gas are are incorporated into the product before it leaves the refinery. Thinking you are getting a better product by using premium fuel in a car designed for regular fuel is just throwing your money away.IMO adding fuel injector cleaner is also a waste of money as the detergents to clean those injectors are already in the gas you buy.
This is just nonsense. All gasoline is mandated to contain a certain amount of detergent additives. Top Tier is just a step above what the EPA requires.
No idea as I know little about it outside of what I've read online. Lots of people seem to think it's the "real deal" but I really can't say.
I lived 90% of my life in an area where Chevron gasoline didn't exist. There are some Chevron stations here in Florida, but none in my immediate area. So, I have no personal experience.
We do have Marathon stations here and their big marketing concept is that they add STP detergent additives to their gasoline.
No personal experience with that either. I buy gas for my personal vehicles from the Shell station around my house 99.9% of the time.
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