| Message |
Chevron Techron is the only off-the-shelf fuel additive I will put in my Z tank, not more than twice every 3000 miles. I see immediate results in that my idle does not skip a beat with Techron in the tank, can't say how that translates into an overall benefit or improvement but that gives me a good feeling. Some fuel additives are little more than kerosene or mineral spirits, and none of them list their ingredients, so there is a lot of snake oil out there. At the AutoZone where I found myself today they were selling the stuff two for one. But I did a cursory check on line and did not see a national sale, go figure. In my toluene article I talk about how "octane boosters" in the little bottles only raise octane maybe a few TENTHS of a point, if at all, i.e. from 92.0 to 92.2 if you're lucky. Fuel additives in general are better avoided, but I consider Chevron Techron to be a special case. For one reason, the same Techron is in Chevron's gasoline, so if you use their gas you are getting the same product. Another point, I don't believe any of their competitors' products are patented like Techron, but I don't claim to have researched this thoroughly. 
 "Straight-line acceleration is probably the first aspect of
automotive performance that any intelligent driver gets bored with."
Peter Gregg "We owe a lot to the dragsters.
They always break something,
figure out a way to beef up the part
and then the benefit trickles
down."
Robo "Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that
counts can be counted."
Einstein
|
 |
Chevron Techron fuel additive 2 for 1 at AutoZone - 
