# Ethos FR

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethos-fr/14617>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [May 29, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethos-fr/14617 "2008-05-29T21:19:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![evorgst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@evorgst](https://community.cartalk.com/u/evorgst)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethos-fr/14617/1 "2008-05-29T21:19:11Z")

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Is using Ethos FR worth the expense?

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethos-fr/14617/2 "2008-05-29T21:23:16Z")

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For the manufacturer or the retailer of this scam product, emphatically YES.

For the poor fool who believes in this nonsense, NO.

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**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethos-fr/14617/3 "2008-05-29T22:08:36Z")

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What is Ethos FR? some kind of FReon?

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**Author:** ![SteveF](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/stevef/32/2_2.png) [@SteveF](https://community.cartalk.com/u/SteveF)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethos-fr/14617/4 "2008-05-29T22:20:03Z")

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FR stands for “fuel reformulator,” a bogus term that encourages the naive customer to imagine all sorts of good chemistry taking place. The product is simply a gas tank or crankcase additive. As you might suspect, it does nothing useful.

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**Author:** ![Scudder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scudder](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Scudder)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ethos-fr/14617/5 "2008-05-29T23:23:07Z")

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Really ?

I’ve been using ‘alternative’ terminology for FR…