StarTron fuel additive

[Elvad]

A guy at the marina recently turned me on to StarTron fuel additive. It is what a lot people are using to counteract the effects of the bad gas we have now in their boats and other small engines. I put one ounce of it in my Civic, that normally gets 39 mpg per tankful, and I got 43.18 mpg on that tank.. I am going to run it all the time now. Has anybody heard anything else good/bad about it? Thanks

 

[Slantsixdan]

Um...stop and think for a moment. You are claiming about an 11% fuel economy improvement from adding one ounce of magic milk to your fuel tank. Sorry, no, the laws of thermodynamics don't allow it. I could go on at great length about the suggestibility of the human mind and the necessity for testing under strictly controlled conditions because driving (and driving conditions) are much more variable than you think, and what enzymes are and what they do (and what they aren't and what they don't), and the many other reasons why the additive didn't do what you think it did, but there's no use in doing so; True Believers will be True Believers.

 

[fla 66 cuda]

I have been told of the cleansing job it does and how it reduces/removes the ethenol [beleve it if you like] i personally have not bought it but it has been highly recomended by a mopar collector here that i know. Walmart has it in the marine section for just under 9.00$. Beleve what you want i think the only thing any thing like this improves is the companys income that sells it, JMO.

 

[tpodwdog]

im with SLANT6DAN on this one. think about this:

your engine is going to suck down the same amount , weather its gasoline....water.....coca-cola...or KOOL-AIDE.....because it does not know the difference. the only thing that improves your mileage is YOUR DRIVING HABITS. there is no " magic milk"...or anything like it. you better check your math!

 

[alsant]

I don`t know about startron but it sounds like it might be similar to seafoam,will not give you better mileage but you can put it in gas tank,oil and intake for cleaning.I have used it all of these ways and I think it works well in this application.

 

[TruBee]

Funny, the guy lined up next to me at carlisle this past weekend, overheard me bitching about bad gas that I brought in harrisburg. Car rode like sh*t driving onto the fairgrounds. He pulls out a mixture of stuff and tells me to dump it into my tank. He swore by it. I do so, and my car rode better than ever before! It was a mixture of the stabilizer and an ounce of marvel mystery oil. I stocked up on it at auto zone in harrisburg. I put the prescribed mixture in my tank for the fill ups on the ride home (215 miles) yesterday. Car rode flawlessly the whole way! Needlesstosay, I'm now a believer. Don't know/care about mileage, but I know the performance is there...

 

[Slantsixdan]

I have been told of the cleansing job it does and how it reduces/removes the ethenol

Yeah, that's a "Sorry, no, here's yer toaster, thanks for playing" claim; the list of substances one can add an ounce of to a tank of fuel so as to reduce or remove the ethanol is exactly zero items long. If one wants to remove the ethanol, one has to figure out the volume of ethanol in the fuel (not hard; the common 10% blend means 12.8 ounces of ethanol per gallon of fuel), agitate the mixture thoroughly (shake!), then wait for the ethanol/water to separate from the gasoline and drain off the ethanol/water. Not practical or safe to do at home.

i think the only thing any thing like this improves is the companys income that sells it

Pretty much. There's certainly a good strong argument to be made for a good grade of fuel stabilizer (Sta-Bil is the long-established brand, but not the only one) in a car not used often enough to keep fresh fuel circulating through the system, and there's probably even a good case to be made for an ethanol-specific variety of fuel stabilizer (with extra corrosion inhibitors; when I need it I use the Sta-Bil because it's the easiest to find in my area), but babble and handwaving and glitzy videos about enzymes and 11% fuel economy improvements and better-tasting coffee and such…none for me, thanks, I'm driving.

 

[coloradodave]

X2. Thanks Dan.

 

[fla 66 cuda]

Dan i was just repeating what i was told, i'm with you on this i personally don't beleve the claims either,if i want non ethanol fuel i'll purchase it where it's available here and i also use sta-bil in my generator and boat. Thanks for the explanation.