Fuel conditioner
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My experience with the parts stores is the best additive depends on the month. My favorite was when I asked the Irish guy (IIRC) why SeaFoam was the best when last time it was Lucas. Without missing a beat, he said "New research"
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Personally, I'm not a big fan of additives for fuel or oil, as your vehicle was manufactured to run with gas in the tank and oil in the crankcase not that and everything else someone wants to sell you.
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I'm not a fan of unproven stuff based on good hopes. Fair warning, if I bought a Parts store, I would cite all the testimonials I can find to sell it.
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My counter sales persons were very knowledgeable, and we didn't try to 'push' additivities on anyone. If customer brought one to the counter we rang it up and took their $. If they communicated their circumstances/issues then we would give them an honest and knowledgeable opinion/direction.
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My counter sales persons were very knowledgeable, and we didn't try to 'push' additivities on anyone. If customer brought one to the counter we rang it up and took their $. If they communicated their circumstances/issues then we would give them an honest and knowledgeable opinion/direction.
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Based on the information that I've been able to find, some fuel stabilizers do actually help some with corrosion issues. K100 and Sta-Bil seemed to perform best in most of the tests at helping to stop corrosion introduced by ethanol. None of the stabilizers that I saw tested did much if anything about the evaporation of the lighter molecules in the gasoline. K100 had the best corrosion resistance, but apparently it will freeze sooner than most.
The general conclusion was that the best way to prevent problems for "normal" storage times (several months) was to do what you can to eliminate ethanol from the tank by storing it with as close as you can get to 100% gasoline throughout the fuel system..
The general conclusion was that the best way to prevent problems for "normal" storage times (several months) was to do what you can to eliminate ethanol from the tank by storing it with as close as you can get to 100% gasoline throughout the fuel system..
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Based on the information that I've been able to find, some fuel stabilizers do actually help some with corrosion issues. K100 and Sta-Bil seemed to perform best in most of the tests at helping to stop corrosion introduced by ethanol. None of the stabilizers that I saw tested did much if anything about the evaporation of the lighter molecules in the gasoline. K100 had the best corrosion resistance, but apparently it will freeze sooner than most.
The general conclusion was that the best way to prevent problems for "normal" storage times (several months) was to do what you can to eliminate ethanol from the tank by storing it with as close as you can get to 100% gasoline throughout the fuel system..
The general conclusion was that the best way to prevent problems for "normal" storage times (several months) was to do what you can to eliminate ethanol from the tank by storing it with as close as you can get to 100% gasoline throughout the fuel system..
