Know of an MPG scam, or some other highly dubious automotive product? Share it right here, in the discuss area for our Official Car Talk Scam Detector. We'd love to hear from you. Have you tried any of them? Have you put magnets on your fuel line, miracle additives in your gas tank -- or massaged …

Save your time, Popular Mechanics already did this: http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/1802932.html By the way, they found that all the products didn’t work. All of them. At best they made no difference. At worst, they caused the vehicle to catch on fire.

Wow!! I can’t wait. With the way humor is used on the broadcast, this subject can be effectivelly addressed without rancor (Surf this web site for good examples). Plus I am sure your engineering backgrounds would play well in explaining why some of these devices don’t work - and more importantly …

my vote - bologna it’s much funnier than scammers trying to fleese us. don’t you think that if a product exixted that cost $10 and improved gas milage 20%. the manufacturers would already be using it to tout better mpg

Let me say I was EXTREMELY dissappointed in Tom and Ray’s response to the guy who was going to put an HHO generator on his car. I would have hoped they would have concentrated on the 2nd Law of Theromdynamics. Instead they focused the oxygen sensor and how that was going to screw up the function o…

It’s high time to experiment. A couple years ago, I had a 2003 Honda Civic. Factory spec says it should get about 33-35 miles per gallon on the highway. When Hurricane Katrina blew in and made a mess, gas prices shot up to just shy of where they are now. So I tried a little experiment, and found th…

you won’t be saving much, if anything, by putting your car in neutral.

And in many states it’s illegal to be moving on a highway while not in a “power-producing” gear.

I keep seeing this (re power from water) floating around in my emails. Is it for real? Then where is it? I would like to see them discuss this… maybe it’s been posted before but I haven’t seen it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PqekQyNr3M

No, It doesn’t work. It violates the laws of physics. Many folks will post that you have to give it a chance. Remember P. T. Barnum? “A sucker is born every minute!!”

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the_same_mountainbike May 16, 2008, 6:27pm 4

Are these two going to actually test these devices in controlled testing…if they know how to do controlled testing…or are they just going to throw balogna back and forth at one another hoping something useful will come out of it?

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