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What is the best fuel additive for car?

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  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    Buy them all and mix the entire lot into your fuel.  That should be the optimum right?  Bet you a $100, your car will not perform any better.  It is better than pisssing in the tank.

  • 3 months ago

    No such thing just buy better fuel from the pump.

  • 3 months ago

    NO SUCH THING. The engineers that design the engine work with the refiners that formulate fuel. The ONLY additives worth the price are ALREADY there.

  • garry
    Lv 6
    3 months ago

    best fuel additive is the fuel itself .

  • 3 months ago

    ................More gasoline.

  • 3 months ago

    No fuel additive at all.

  • 3 months ago

    That depends on why you want to add a fuel additive in the first place. If you have water in your gasoline buy a can of HEAT. If you've been told your fuel injectors need cleaning because you let the vehicle sit for over 6 months it's better to have a mechanic run a special cleaner such as the stuff 3M makes in a pressurized can that takes special equipment to hook up to the fuel rail. If you want to pour a cleaner into the gas tank Techron makes the bet fuel additive for that. If you have a high compression motor and can't find premium high octane gasoline buy a bottle of octane booster. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    You probably don’t need any as modern fuels have detergents added which keeps your engine clean. I remember in the 60s my Dad taking his car in for a “de-coke”. Have you heard of anyone doing that for about 40 years?

    The only exception is for diesel in really cold weather, -15Cor lower. You can get additives to stop it waxing ( modern diesel isn’t as quick to form wax as it used to be), which will block the fuel filter and stop the engine. I experienced this in 2010 , when we had temperatures down to -20C where I live. Alternatively , use a synthetic diesel like  Shell V power.

  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    you dont need any

    I only put a cup of Metholated spirits in my tank once a year to break down any water in the Tank

  • 3 months ago

    Should not need any.  The gasoline should be good as it comes.

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