More MPG Now – HHO nonsense in London
Gordon Loughton of 24 Freshfield Bank, Forest Row in London has a business (and another here)selling a miracle fuel saving product which he says can dramatically reduce your engine’s fuel consumption and improve its emissions using… by up to 30% apparently.
Nonsense!
HHO is a scam product which cannot possibly work and which has been show to be nonsense.
Oxy-isolators , also called lambda sensors, are devices which fool your engine’s computer into making the engine run a little lean which can increase MPG a little but at the expense of performance and emissions (and it is probably illegal too).
Here is Gordon’s website
http://www.morempgnow.co.uk/
Here is why HHO is nonsense:
http://www.eco-scams.com/archives/141
And here is a longer article on oxygen sensors, what they do, how they do it and why it is not a good idea:
http://www.eco-scams.com/archives/697
anon:
please note you have incorrect information. Mr Loughton is not a director of this company. The directors of this company is Mr John Haggas of Worple Road South london, and Mr Eric Keogh of Chertsey South London
16 April 2012, 2:02 pmDamien Green:
Sounds like one of those typical scams to me. These guys pray on the ill informed (which is probably 95% of motorists) and are no better than the dodgy garages who try to con money out of their customers for unnecessary work. If any of these magic systems / formulas worked, the car industry would be scrabbling over themselves to get them integrated into their new models and the designers of these products wold be enjoyng huge licensing payments.,They wouldn’t be messing around tryng to sell direct to the customer!
Running an engine lean is a really bad idea. Lean running engines create more heat which can lead to all sorts of problems with head gaskets, cracked cylinder blocks etc. if your vehicle is turbocharged then running lean will make matters even worse, in fact most turbocharged cars are designed to run a little rich as a safety precaution.
I agree with you, messing with oxygen sensors is a really bad idea and that’s all these guys are doing. Also note the sensors actually only work when the car is idelling or on low revs. Once you get going, the car’s ECU takes over the job of the fuel air mixture rendering any modifications ineffective so the difference unless the car is badly out of tune or has defective oxygen sensors will be negligible.
21 April 2013, 1:54 am