Today's Daily Telegraph has an advertisement for the latest "Fuel Saving Breakthrough". www.savingpetrol.com/home.asp
£98 and there are 5 errors of spelling, syntax and grammar in the text plus a few more on the website. One wonders why a firm, apparently on the cutting edge of combustion technology can't pay someone to check their English! Doesn't give me a nice warm feeling about the product, particularly when the name of the man who did the research plus the University where he works at doesn't produce one answer when tried in "Google"
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Doesn't give me a nice warm feeling about the product, particularly when the name of the man who did the research plus the University where he works at doesn't produce one answer when tried in "Google"
The man himself... www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/People/Griffiths2.html
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Mike Farrow
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Try
www.fuelsaving.info/
for a real cool shower over all this sort of thing.
The very well informed author of that site has made several attempts to contact Dr Griffiths, but with no success. I did have contact with him about five years ago; his position seems to be based more on faith than science.
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The sumary report is little better than the advert. Not a mention of test methods for example. I was concerned when I read the words 'aerosol' and 'bubble rate'. Not another air bleed device, surely?
JS
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It's simple really. When the discombobulator allows the warp core to be flushed through with trilium, the whole process efficiency improves by 10%. If the Enterprise can do it on a real starship, then a motor car is nuffink.
At least Rodney said so...and drove off in his 3 wheeler:-)
madf
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Similar ad in the Mail...:-)
Must be worth the advertising as enough mugs must respond to warrant the high cost.
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Having had personal experience of this product -- it doesn't work -- I have written to the advertising director of the Telegraph. Would someone care to write to his counterpart at the Mail?
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It reminds me of an article that I read in 'Practicle Classics' about the 'H20 Bomb' which came out in the 1960's. Apparently squirting water down the inlet manifold performed all sort of wonders!
More recently there was a device called the 'Fuel Cat' which allowed you to run an engine without hardened valve-seats on unleaded fuel, simply by passing it through tin pellets!
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That 'Fuel Cat' wasnt cheap either. We saw one at a show and was quoted £90, but you had to replace it every 3 months or so (depending on your mileage).
Needless to say we didnt buy one...
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A copy of the Telegraph ad is also going to Trading Standards, despatched by a particularly authoritative individual (not me, obviously).
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I had a look.But whether its me or not. I didnt understand a word of most of it.Must be getting old:( Either that or it was a load of tosh?
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Steve
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I had a look.But whether its me or not. I didnt understand a word of most of it.Must be getting old:( Either that or it was a load of tosh? -- Steve
It has been said many times.
These products are a load of tosh.
If they actually worked they would have been bought up by Ford/GM/VW so they could say "Hey, look how efficient our engines are!"
If you had designed a widget that could improve fuel consumption by 10% what would you do? Try to market it yourself or sell it to Ford?
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"These products are a load of tosh."
So are catalytic converters in the UK, IMO.
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>>It has been said many times.
These products are a load of tosh.
I am normaly first to say so..Just a bit slow on this one
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Steve
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I bought a Fuel cat back in say `97 ish and fitted it to a 1984 BMW 318i to supposedly run it on unleaded. This it did ok but the car probably would have done just as well without it seeing as it had an alloy cylinder head and presumably hardened valve seats!. Cost about £70 as I recall. The car is still going strong last I heard dunno about the fuel cat though!
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>>I have written to the advertising director of the Telegraph.>>
Even better is to write to the Advertising Standards Agency:
www.asa.org.uk/asa/
Reading through some of the Adjudication findings on advertisements placed by some very famous names is always highly enlightening...:-)
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