What's your take on this method?

It's not a good idea. Small amounts of these additives don't produce meaningful results. Larger amounts are expensive and will damage your fuel system and engine.

Look at this from a different perspective. If an additive significantly and cheaply boosted fuel mileage, one of the big oil companies would have patented it and added it to their fuel as a competitive advantage. Of course the tinfoil hat people will tell you they knew about it but suppressed the information.

Most of these fuel mileage boosters do work, but only because of the placebo effect.

Tom

 

The Professional Engineer's View on Acetone is, unsurprisingly, that it has little or no benefit and a certain amount of downside.

The whole site is worth a read.

 

I have found using acetone based fuel system cleaners in older injected cars has a slight affect on emissions. I found this using a exhaust gas analyser.

 

Think about it...

Acetone's most common usages are:
- paint thinner
- nail polish remover
- industrial cleaner for laboratories

Xylene's most common usages are:
- solvent in the printing, rubber, and leather industries
(FYI - A solvent is a liquid, solid, or gas that dissolves another solid, liquid, or gas)

Do you really want to put that in your engine?

 

Hi All,

The benefits Acetone provided were primarily in Diesel engines. The improvement has effectively been eliminated by modern diesel fuel injection systems. The issue with diesel fuel is its more viscous, so to get small droplets, either the surface tension needs to be reduced (acetone technique) or the injector pressure increase / orifice size reduction (modern car method). The smaller the Diesel fuel droplet size, the more complete the fuel burn.

Improvements in fuel injected gasoline cars can be traced to the cleaning effect the Acetone provides. Once achieved the Acetone can be eliminate and the improvement retained. But, its not a true improvement, just maintenance back closer to the new car performance. If your car already has clean fuel injectors , there wont be any improvement.

 

The acetone thing becomes more popular on the net as the cost of fuel goes up, same as the HHO scam.