Electronic Gizmo To The Ecu

[REBEL]

HI ALL
What do you think of the electronic gizmo which Quentin Wilson fitted to his landrover and helped to bring up mileage from 23mpg to 30mpg.
It is supposed to control your ecu hence gives you more mpg up to 8 -15% better fuel consumption.
It was on the tonight programme on Monday 30th June 2008.
The only drawback is that the gizmo cost up to £300 including fitting. Do you think this is worth doing?

[Tallyman]

According to the program you need to travel at least 18000 miles before it starts paying back the cost. If you do high annual mileage, then it might be worth looking at. Mine does around 3.5K per year, so although it looked good I certainly wouldn't want to fit one for that cost.

[BUSHWHACKER]

There's a much cheaper way, pump your tyres up harder.

[mckirdy-services]

There's a much cheaper way, pump your tyres up harder.

There is another way that is guaranteed to save you 50% on your fuel cost!

Thats right reduce your fuel consumption by 50%

Its simple and its free!


Can you guess?




























Only drive, half your mileage.
Take the bus instead






What a load of Boll*cks

[darkdezigns]

There's a much cheaper way, pump your tyres up harder.

and then get uneven wear on them?

[REBEL]

Electronic Gizmo

I just thought it sounded a good idea at the time as i am not quite sure i want to put foreign liquids in my tank in order to save a bit of money.

[BUSHWHACKER]

and then get uneven wear on them?

No shit Sherlock!

[BUSHWHACKER]

I just thought it sounded a good idea at the time as i am not quite sure i want to put foreign liquids in my tank in order to save a bit of money.

They all fall into the same catagory: Gizmos, gadgets, snake oils, Bobbox etc...
The Surfs ECU was set for maximum economy/performance when it left the factory. The only way to get more MPG is to drive it with broken glass inside your right shoe.

[Apache]

Fit polystyrene wheels, as narrow as possible, and sharpen the front of the truck to a point.

[MudSurfer]

OR

Make a carbon fibre cheese wedge and attach that to the front......

Oh, and empty the truck before you drive of all the crap you don't need in it......

[gwh200]

or read terry syd's rather interesting thread on the aussie site about "fooling" the ecu and pump into not delivering the boost of fuel at turbo time
(i tried and its fine around town but it turns your rather slow 2.4 into a rather slower 2.4,but it did return 21.1 to the gallon instead of 19....which was fine)

[MattF]

Most, (if not all), gadgets, gizmo's and additives are either complete and utter bunkum, or will never recoup their cost within a reasonable timeframe. Careful driving technique will give you far better MPG increases than any additions.