Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:34:27 +1000 From: Sylvia Else <sylvianospamat.this.address> Subject: Re: What a fnospamg scam - FuelSaver my ass - it's just a damn magnet
Jim wrote: > "Sylvia Else" <sylvianospamat.this.address> wrote in message > news:4349dc36$0$9758$afc38c87nospam.optusnet.com.au... > >> >>Craig's Saab C900 Site wrote: >> >> >>>I guess most of you know about these rip-off devices - a ring magnet that >>>you clamp around your car's fuel supply line. >> >>Any alleged fuel saving device on sale retail can be assumed to be a scam, >>because if there were any demonstrable substance, the inventor would have >>sold it to car manufactures and be filthy rich by now, rather than having >>to flog the things on eBay. >> >>Remember the magic formula - if it seems too good to be true, it's almost >>certainly false. >> >>Sylvia. > > > Yes and no. By extending the dwell angle on the old Kettering systems an > increase in economy could often be observed. I built and sold a few devices > to do just that. It was a sort of "spark fattener" if you like. Market > research indicated that it appeared to work on about 50% of the vehicles > that it was fitted to. (installed on 50 likely vehicles) Some people drove > for economy with the device fitted, some put the boot in. I never sold them > commercially because > 1. I couldn't rightfully claim that it would work. Sometimes it would, > sometimes it wouldn't. > > 2 The newer vehicles all had electronic ignition which of course made them > redundant > > 3 My time was worth more than I could sell them for. But something described in those terms could hardly qualify as "too good to be true" could it? Sylvia
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