Millers diesel plus improves the quality of normal to diesel to that of premiun diesel (allegedly) but at a lower cost per litre that the price difference at the pump. Millers costs 2.4 p per litre of fuel treated.

What is this doing in Legal BTW?

Edited by Armitage Shanks {p} on 03/10/2012 at 22:06

I am particularly puzzled by the advantages of a lower combustion temperature as one of the limiting factors for the thermal efficiency of a gas cycle is to maximise (within material limits) the upper temperature of the cycle.

The combustion temperature refers to the DPF soot burn off temperature, not the cylinder temperatures.

Platimum is far too expensive to use as a total loss catalyst. Besides you've got a perfectly good platinum lined oxidation catalyst to the catalytic role. There might be some ceria based compound in this snake oil, but not enough to be much more than a homeopathic dose.

You don't need any of this junk.

Edited by unthrottled on 04/10/2012 at 00:29

Thanks Unthrottled, I suspected that was the intention of the product however if you read the puffery on the web site..

The uniform distribution of the catalyst within the fuel allows for a faster burn at a lower temperature. Platinum Plus catalysts are fully fuel-soluble, rather than suspensions. In this way, using Platinum Plus avoids the potential for inconsistent combustion from non-uniform catalyst dispersion, storage instabilities or mechanical wear or injector clogging effects.

It appears to be implying that the lower temperature occurs during the cylinder combustion cycle, as I suggest in my original post there are no outright untruths in the statements, merely a collection of spuriously connected facts that have little bearing on the ultimate combustion process efficiency.

Having spent some years working in energy efficiency I have come across a large number of products that claim to improve combustion efficiency, descale water pipes etc, whilst most of these are sheer bunkum I noticed that what does happen is that people fit these devices or use these additives and notice an "improvement", the improvement is almost always due to improved record keeping to find if the device works or not. This is one reason I support the roll out of water metering and smart utility metering as "If you can't measure it you can't save it"

Apparently, the same thing applies to the factory air filter. Of course they've developed a sports performance filter that has hitherto eluded professional engine designers at the OEMs.

I am probably the biggest sceptic in the world when it comes to a man in a shed being able to develop better products than the manufacturer, if they were that good the manufacturer would employ them and sack the R & D department but some years ago I fitted a K & N filter to my Golf. No idea if it performed any better but it saved me a fortune, used it for over 100,000 miles, just washed it and oiled it every 10,000 miles. Way cheaper than a new paper filter every 20,000 miles.

No problem with modern motor oils the problem the oil companies have is with rocking horse s*** salesman.Have you ever heard such rubbish as "burn of soot a lower temperatures".