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64 comments on Fuel Saver - Snake Oil Or Not ?
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The first link didn't work for me....
I would be tempted to call shenanigans on these folks, just on the basis of what they claim. There are tons of these types of "ideas" out there for improving fuel economy. Cow magnets, acetone, and others, and none of them work except to lighten your wallet.
The companies website is short on details. They have a video from a Chinese newscast (perhaps appropriately labelled TVBS).
In the off chance that there is something real, they will need to have an independent audit by a 3rd party to prove it, but if I were in a position to do such an audit, I would probably consider it a waste of my time.
Hmmm - you're right - it's completely disappeared from the SMH site.
Google News still has it (the link below doesn't work either, but it comes up in a Google News search for "moletech"), so I didn't imagine the article. Not sure why they took it down though...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/2-0&fp=4789883462bfda59&ei=mV...
SMH probably realized, too late, that they'd been scammed.
Nice to see the media setting it right so quickly. The next step is to help them get it right the first time (Steorn, anyone?).
I come across this companies stand at the Batemans Bay caravan show, and they persuaded me to purchase a unit for my 7.3ltr diesel ford 250. I decided to trial it in my pick up and if successful i will look to my truck fleet.
Some three months later my F250 has increased fuel economy verying between 12.2% and 13.7% with noticably more torque. So now not so sceptical I looked to installing in my fleet, first I wanted to confirm their claims and asked for documnetations on DOTARS and the university report.
It all checked out, it is legitament. I have now started in Three trucks with a view to keep monitering the results before installing in the balance of my trucks. So far so good
when something seems to good to be true, there is usually a problem. So far no problems.