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Magnet-on-your-fuel-line Boys - Some Report On It

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guys, i saw this in the website,http://www.carbibles.com/additives.html

The magnet-on-your-fuel-line boys

FuelMax loses to FTC for deceptive advertising claims.

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The marketers of the Super FuelMAX automotive fuel-line magnet, advertised as providing dramatic fuel-saving and emissions-reducing benefits, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their claims were unsubstantiated. These guys claimed that sticking a pair of magnets around your fuel line would increase your gas mileage by 27% whilst reducing harmful pollutants by 42%. The one slight flaw in their plan? There's nothing in fuel that can be affected by magnets......

The FTC alleged that the manufacturers did not possess or rely on reasonable substantiation for the claims they made. The complaint also alleged that the manufacturers falsely represented that tests performed at a certified EPA laboratory prove that Super FuelMAX performed to the above figures. Finally, the FTC charged that ads for Super FuelMAX featuring a testimonial from Alexander Elnekaveh endorsing the product did not reflect Elnekaveh's actual experience with the product or the typical or ordinary experience of members of the public who use the product. Therefore, the FTC complaint said, the representations concerning the testimonial were false or misleading.

Click here to read the FTC Report on the FTC vs. FuelMax.

Click here to see all the FTC Reports pertaining to FuelMax.

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Not the first time and certainly not the most notorious. For the older members on the forum, same may remember a certain Australian race car driver known as Perer Brock and the demise of the HDT marque.

Taken from en.wikipedia.org:

Brock developed an interest in New Age-style spirituality through practitioner Eric Dowker. Brock began publicly supporting, and eventually began to fit to HDT specials, a device called the "Energy Polariser", containing strong permanent magnets, which claimed to improve the performance and handling of vehicles through "aligning the molecules". The overwhelming majority of the Australian motoring community regarded the device as pseudoscience. Brock also recommended that the tyre pressures for his polariser-equipped vehicles at what many regarded as near-dangerously low levels. Holden, fearing the consequences of being associated with the device, cut ties with Brock and set up an alternative racing/modification operation, Holden Special Vehicles.

GTAAAH Mentor

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mm speaking of scams, check this outtt

http://www.turbonator.com/

Found it on a honda civic forum (dont ask) funnily enough.

Maybe the magnets made the car think that it was getting better fuel economy and therefore it did? placebo effect :unsure:

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mm speaking of scams, check this outtt

http://www.turbonator.com/

Found it on a honda civic forum (dont ask) funnily enough.

Maybe the magnets made the car think that it was getting better fuel economy and therefore it did? placebo effect :)

hiclones in disquise.....wank wank

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