Petrol Aditives.

[Bloo Toon Davie]

Good evening everyone,does anyone use petrol additives,and what’s your opinion of same?

 

[Stevo7682]

Snake oil a lot of them.
A lot of petrol additives are heavily kerosene based and its that that cleans your internals.
Depends a lot on what you are looking to achieve by using these sorts of products.

Stephen.

 

[Sajk]

I see you live where you should be able to get pretty high octane fuel so you should not need octane boosters like I do to get a 98 Ron tune running ok. Apart from octane boosters I run a can of injector cleaner through once every 6 months. Probably does nothing. The only other thing I use is a petrol stabiliser from NF which send to help with the fuel going off in my generator (since the ANC took over here rolling blackouts have become the norm). If you have to winterize your car this may help but it's better to run it low before you put it away for winter. Brand of additive is key. I have tried most. I now use NF from Australia and have for a few years. Generally there stuff does what they say.

 

[Paul H]

I often put redex in my tank, buy in bulk when its half price in the supermarkets.

I have no idea if I'm getting any benefit from it.

 

[Bloo Toon Davie]

I often put redex in my tank, buy in bulk when its half price in the supermarkets.

I have no idea if I'm getting any benefit from it.

Thanks for your reply Paul.I remember in days gone by lots of us used redex in our cars,supposed to keep carbon build up to a minimum,even poured it into the carbs at times.

 

[Bloo Toon Davie]

Thanks for your reply Paul.I remember in days gone by lots of us used redex in our cars,supposed to keep carbon build up to a minimum,even poured it into the carbs at times.but I am speaking about the 60s and 70s.used it in my Fiat 850 sports coupe and never had any problems.

 

[backseateducation]

I have had some success with Cataclean, that and a good thrashing (oo-er) got my Cougar through the MOT every year.

 

[Bloo Toon Davie]

I have had some success with Cataclean, that and a good thrashing (oo-er) got my Cougar through the MOT every year.

Would Cataclean be similar as Redex.?I must read up on it.

 

[backseateducation]

I always imagined it to be a bit stronger. I've never thought of it as something I would use on a regular basis but I could be wrong.

 

[colb]

Redex is an upper cylinder lubrication, it cleans the carbon deposits off the valves and cylinder top, Catclean is something different chemically that cleans the deposits in the Cat. In olden days it was quite normal to have two shots of Redex put in when you filled with petrol at serviced garages, you told the pump attendant how many gallons you wanted and asked for two shots of redex. You could also drip feed Redex through the carb inlet but it used to cause quite a lot of exhaust smoke as you added it which could upset the neighbours.