Article DetailsNO! Putting Acetone in your fuel tank is not a brilliant idea |
| Date Added: October 21, 2009 05:00:00 PM |
| Author: Jennifer McClelland |
| Category: Blogs: Automotive |
| Acetone might be a fine choice for taking that awful lime green fingernail polish off, but no, it is not a good alternative for putting in your gas tank.
A question posed to MSNBC was this: I’ve heard of an unconventional way to boost gas mileage by up to 25 percent - adding 1 to 3 ounces of acetone to every 10 gallons of gas. Is this accurate? Well, no…it is simply not true. In consequence, putting acetone in your gas tank is unsafe and will damage your engine. Acetone is caustic. It is used as a paint thinner and nail polish remover. This is the identical stuff that if you get it on your wooden table it will take the varnish finish right off the table. So what does the acetone do in your gas tank after you put it in there? Well, it eats at all the little rubber parts in your engine. After all, this is the same stuff that will eat a fake fingernail right off your finger. You will end up getting a much bigger bill for the parts that were eaten away in your car than the 25% jump in gas mileage that you may or may not have received by putting the acetone in your gas tank. Not only can this stuff eat at the rubber on your engine, it can also take off the paint from your vehicle. It will eat right through the clear coat and through to the paint on the vehicle. This would result in hundreds of dollars worth of destruction. In my opinion, if you are looking for a fuel chemical addition to try to get better mileage, wander over to the automotive department at your local store and check out the fuel additive section. When you’re there you will find everything from simple fuel additive to fuel injection cleaner. Most of them declare to boost your gas mileage. I find that putting 89 octane gas in your car may do the same trick as adding some of the fuel additive that can cost up to $8 for a bottle (which also tells you to add a bottle each single time that you fill up your gas tank). Honestly, if you are putting a bottle of $7 additive in your vehicle every time that you are filling up, you are not really saving any money…It seems like you are actually wasting more money. |
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