Saving on Fuel

georgew94

So my grandma saw a device you plug in to your ecu port which helps your engine drive economically, apparently on TV but I can't find it the only ones I can find are the cheap ones for 5 pound on ebay dont actually work does anybody have any ideas?

jk0

A £5 device that will make your car run better than its manufacturer can with a budget of millions?


Just change the oil & filters regularly, IIWY.

georgew94

I never said about the £5 ones are good thats my point, there was one for about 59 that actually help you drive more friendly

MEM62

A bit early for school holidays, isn't it?

sheramber

http://www.magneticpower4u.net/ecoflow.html

Brilley

...ever been had?

Car_54

georgew94 wrote: »

I never said about the £5 ones are good thats my point, there was one for about 59 that actually help you drive more friendly

The £5 ones do nothing.

The £60 ones do 12 times nothing.

Ebe_Scrooge

Giving the OP the benefit of the doubt here ...

Is he/she talking about re-mapping ? Now, I'll say straight out that I'm no expert on the subject, so happy to be corrected. But as I understand it, a manufacturer normally programs the ECU to give a reasonable balance between power and fuel economy, under a range of conditions. This can be tweaked to give more power at the expense of economy, or vice-versa.

It needs to be done by someone who knows what they're doing, with the proper kit, and will cost rather more than a fiver. And whether it would pay for itself in terms of fuel savings I've no idea. And you'd have to notify your insurance company of the modification. But is this maybe what the OP means ?

But that aside, of course you can make a big difference to fuel economy just by sympathetic driving.

forgotmyname

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

Giving the OP the benefit of the doubt here ...

No not remapping its an OBD box with a couple of LEDs that flashes to let you think its doing something.

Connect 12v to one and it will flash the same pattern, strange that with no ECU to talk to.

Just an LED and some resistors.

Jackmydad

There's a magic, and really cheap way to save fuel.
Don't press the right pedal down as far, and stay off the middle pedal as much as possible.

oldagetraveller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgXwfBTKLGU


Says it all really. Now this is one occasion where the word "scam" is relevant.