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To my understanding…Gas treatment evaporates water content from gasoline making for better mileage? Fuel injector just cleans off the grease buildup of the fuel injectors as it sprays out the gasoline? So this means the you’ll have to pour in a bottle of gas treatment for every tank of gas you filled?
Am i correct?
Technically yes,
it is alcohol(gas treatment) and the alcohol absorbs moisture… Its pretty much useless, honestly, in no real world situation does one need any of the above(gas treatment or injector cleaner) in a bottle. The stuff is just for a couple extra bucks of profit. change your oil, keep your gas tank past half full, warm your car up before you drive, do your maintainences and respect your car. You will never have to put anything in your tank other than gas.
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Oh and by the way, if you are putting gas treatment in your tank to get better mileage, you are getting worse using that stuff, alcohol burns super lean……… If your putting it in to improve mileage, You are just getting less miles per dollar.
Stick with burning gas, the less alcohol it has in it, the better your mileage will be, proven fact, live with it, deal with it, there is no alternative………………………..
Gas treatment is in most cases an alcohol based product that will remove water from your fuel system. In most cases for a vehicle that is being driven on a regular basis you won’t need gas treatment as long as you buy quality gasoline. Well what is quality gasoline? Automakers have gotten together and came up with a standard minimum fuel additive package that they are recommending for their vehicles and a testing process to certify those standards. It is called Top Tier gasoline. All of the brands that are certified Top Tier have to meet certain requirements. Don’t worry about using gas treatment just stick to buying good gas. Some of the brands that meet the Top Tier certification process are: Texaco, Shell, Chevron, Conoco, 76 & Phillips 66. BP is not certified top tier but I have had success using that as well. As far as injector cleaners the only one I will use is Techron by Chevron. Chevron was the first gasoline to be certified Top Tier and the Techron additive is the same one they put in their gasoline only in a more concentrated form. Techron is also recommended as a fix by some manufacturers right in their own Technical Service Bulletins sent out to their mechanics. Two of the manufacturers I have seen bulletins from are Volvo and Mercedes. If you use it about once every 10k miles it will keep your fuel system clean at a cost of about 8.00 every 10k miles. I wouldn’t use any other additives.
Fuel injector cleaners in a can are just solvents, they clean out the varnish that builds up over time in the tank, fuel lines, rails & injectors; I prefer Chemtool, Seafoam & Techron, I add a can every six months or so to keep said varnish cleaned out. FYI – Techron is added to Chevrons gas already so if you fill up there don’t even worry about it.
The gas treatments that aren’t specifically for injector cleaning are just alcohol as stated previously & bond to the water in the tank so it can be burned; since gasoline floats on top of water & in tank fuel pumps take up fuel from the bottom of the tank….there shouldn’t be enough water in the tank to worry about, so unless the vehicle begins to sputter & miss after a fill up I wouldn’t use a “fuel treatment” because they will cause a lean burn situation.
The advice given by olz431 to keep the tank over half full is a good idea in vehicles with metal tanks as the interior top half of the fuel tank will rust simply because of the condensation of the water in gasoline as it evaporates; but most modern tanks are plastic now so it’s not much of a concern for most people.
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