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what is BG244?
it is a fuel system cleaner. you put a can of it in your fuel tank with a full tank of fuel.
it costs about £23 delivered online.
it claims to get get rid of carbon deposits on fuel injectors/pistons/inlet and outlet ports. helping to make your engine run better and more efficiently.
does it work? is it worth the £23 ?
well. heres my findings...........................
My car is 2004 2.0 hdi. full service history with 93000 on the clock.
I have owned the car since new year 2016. when i bought the car the tank was almost empty. so first job, full tank of shell diesel. (not v power)
that tank did 400 miles to the last white mark on the gauge. next tank got some millers additive, again did 400 miles to the same mark.
The car also got a service at this point, fuel, oil and air filter change.
My commute to work is a round trip of 35 miles. I work nights, the wife has the car during the day. probably doing the same sort of mileage.
Driving mainly on A and B roads, around town with very little motorway except the odd 20 mile blast here and there perhaps.
The next two tanks all did the same. 400 miles to the same mark on the gauge. both had millers additive added to tank.
I've kept a fuel/milage log and all my receipts.
After using millers in the second tank the car drove alot better. smoother and quieter. and also more responsive.
I have used millers for along time on my cars. petrol and diesel and swear by the stuff. and i don't use supermarket fuel.
Millers helped the car start better and improved that bit of smoke you get sometimes when you first fire up in the morning.
I also think adding millers make the car quieter and run smoother. I have never really seen any great difference in mpg using millers.
How did I hear about BG244?
On here, there was a topic on millers and someone posted that they use BG244 once a year just before a service. (sorry i forgot who you are)
So, intrigued as to what BG244 is, i did some research...... alot of research!!
there is plenty of it out there, and if you dig deep you will find out how BG244 came about and how certain car manufacturers tried to stop it.
there is very little bad press about this stuff. what bad press on forums is met with replies from others that their cars didn't need it!
Alot of folk said that whilst using it fuel consumption improved but went back to before mpg on second full tank of fuel. others claimed that the car improved dramatically during using it and after it. lots claimed the car became more responsive on the throttle. pulled better and so on. and that their mpg was much better.
So I ordered a tin.
the tank before I used it I put a tank of fuel in with no millers. (the only reason is I had run out). that did 400 miles.
now, as a side note. when driving my berlingo, if you tried to pull away from say a roundabout in 4th and it really needed 3rd and was doing around 1100rpm, the car would judder and labour. didn't like it at all, but i felt the car should still pull away.
The tin is about the size of a can of pop. comes with a paper funnel. with the tank on fumes I added it first before fueling up.
didn't really notice to much at first, but the second journey in the car there was a noticeable difference.
it was like someone had flipped a switch and turned a rocket on! BG244 ups the octane level and therefore makes the car very responsive.
the idea is, you add BG244 and do short journeys. this allows for BG244 to do its stuff. it needs to soak whilst the car is off then to blow it off when running.
read somewhere that someone did 400 miles in one go on the stuff and it made no difference to the car's performance. this remark was met with, 'you are meant to do short journeys in order for it to work!'
And how did my berlingo do?
Well, on that tank of fuel with BG244 I got 450 miles to the mark.
the car pulled easily and did not labour when trying to use 4th rather than 3rd. It started alot better and there seemed to be very little smoke on cold start up.
And! Im now on the 4th tank after using it and im still getting 450 miles to a tank and it still drives like a goodun! (also using millers with a tank)
It starts better, runs better, pulls better and AND!! i get an extra 50 miles to a tank! 50 miles!!!!
Now i know this sounds and reads like a advertisement for the stuff from someone with shares in the company.
but i have nothing invested with them. and do not benefit at all from writing this.
I thought I would take the time to share this with you as I think this product isn't marketed enough. you can't buy it in halfords for instance.
and as most modern diesel cars suffer from carbon build up as they get older it seems logic to use such a product to help maintain the parts doing what they are meant to do on the engines to make them be green and efficient. the same parts that that carbon up and stop being errrr???........... green and efficient. Im confused too .
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the reason your engine carbons up is the lack of sulphur in the fuel, and a few other harmful things that use to be in fuel.
the reason you should use fuels like shell and not supermarket fuel is shell and the like put additives in their fuel. supermarkets don't. hence why supermarket fuel is cheap. (they also use more bio fuel).
the reason car manufacturers don't want you using this stuff. simple. they want you to buy more new cars!!
Bit of a read I know, but if you are interested in improving your cars performance and your driving experience you will have made it to this sentence and will probably be clicking on amazon next to see how much the stuff is. (£23.95 delivered)
Will I use BG244 again?
I will be using it every 12 months, I don't expect to see as great as an improvement as I did this time as the engine won't be as bad. from what i have read, cars over 30000 miles have see improvements but cars with mileage like mine have seen the most.
there are other products that claim to do the same, but only BG244 has something I think is called PE added. and its this thats does the business.
Once again I have nothing to do with oil companies or BG244.
I drive a truck for a living that's all.
I hope you have found this informative and interesting. this weekend the wife and I are going away for the weekend and will be doing alot of motorway miles. I will post if I see any improvement on mpg with big motorway miles.
This simple additive has greatly improved my driving experience of my berlingo. the fact its doing an extra 50 miles to the tank! well, brucie bonus.
Chris.![Cool]( "Cool")
what is BG244?
it is a fuel system cleaner. you put a can of it in your fuel tank with a full tank of fuel.
it costs about £23 delivered online.
it claims to get get rid of carbon deposits on fuel injectors/pistons/inlet and outlet ports. helping to make your engine run better and more efficiently.
does it work? is it worth the £23 ?
well. heres my findings...........................
My car is 2004 2.0 hdi. full service history with 93000 on the clock.
I have owned the car since new year 2016. when i bought the car the tank was almost empty. so first job, full tank of shell diesel. (not v power)
that tank did 400 miles to the last white mark on the gauge. next tank got some millers additive, again did 400 miles to the same mark.
The car also got a service at this point, fuel, oil and air filter change.
My commute to work is a round trip of 35 miles. I work nights, the wife has the car during the day. probably doing the same sort of mileage.
Driving mainly on A and B roads, around town with very little motorway except the odd 20 mile blast here and there perhaps.
The next two tanks all did the same. 400 miles to the same mark on the gauge. both had millers additive added to tank.
I've kept a fuel/milage log and all my receipts.
After using millers in the second tank the car drove alot better. smoother and quieter. and also more responsive.
I have used millers for along time on my cars. petrol and diesel and swear by the stuff. and i don't use supermarket fuel.
Millers helped the car start better and improved that bit of smoke you get sometimes when you first fire up in the morning.
I also think adding millers make the car quieter and run smoother. I have never really seen any great difference in mpg using millers.
How did I hear about BG244?
On here, there was a topic on millers and someone posted that they use BG244 once a year just before a service. (sorry i forgot who you are)
So, intrigued as to what BG244 is, i did some research...... alot of research!!
there is plenty of it out there, and if you dig deep you will find out how BG244 came about and how certain car manufacturers tried to stop it.
there is very little bad press about this stuff. what bad press on forums is met with replies from others that their cars didn't need it!
Alot of folk said that whilst using it fuel consumption improved but went back to before mpg on second full tank of fuel. others claimed that the car improved dramatically during using it and after it. lots claimed the car became more responsive on the throttle. pulled better and so on. and that their mpg was much better.
So I ordered a tin.
the tank before I used it I put a tank of fuel in with no millers. (the only reason is I had run out). that did 400 miles.
now, as a side note. when driving my berlingo, if you tried to pull away from say a roundabout in 4th and it really needed 3rd and was doing around 1100rpm, the car would judder and labour. didn't like it at all, but i felt the car should still pull away.
The tin is about the size of a can of pop. comes with a paper funnel. with the tank on fumes I added it first before fueling up.
didn't really notice to much at first, but the second journey in the car there was a noticeable difference.
it was like someone had flipped a switch and turned a rocket on! BG244 ups the octane level and therefore makes the car very responsive.
the idea is, you add BG244 and do short journeys. this allows for BG244 to do its stuff. it needs to soak whilst the car is off then to blow it off when running.
read somewhere that someone did 400 miles in one go on the stuff and it made no difference to the car's performance. this remark was met with, 'you are meant to do short journeys in order for it to work!'
And how did my berlingo do?
Well, on that tank of fuel with BG244 I got 450 miles to the mark.
the car pulled easily and did not labour when trying to use 4th rather than 3rd. It started alot better and there seemed to be very little smoke on cold start up.
And! Im now on the 4th tank after using it and im still getting 450 miles to a tank and it still drives like a goodun! (also using millers with a tank)
It starts better, runs better, pulls better and AND!! i get an extra 50 miles to a tank! 50 miles!!!!
Now i know this sounds and reads like a advertisement for the stuff from someone with shares in the company.
but i have nothing invested with them. and do not benefit at all from writing this.
I thought I would take the time to share this with you as I think this product isn't marketed enough. you can't buy it in halfords for instance.
and as most modern diesel cars suffer from carbon build up as they get older it seems logic to use such a product to help maintain the parts doing what they are meant to do on the engines to make them be green and efficient. the same parts that that carbon up and stop being errrr???........... green and efficient. Im confused too .
the reason your engine carbons up is the lack of sulphur in the fuel, and a few other harmful things that use to be in fuel.
the reason you should use fuels like shell and not supermarket fuel is shell and the like put additives in their fuel. supermarkets don't. hence why supermarket fuel is cheap. (they also use more bio fuel).
the reason car manufacturers don't want you using this stuff. simple. they want you to buy more new cars!!
Bit of a read I know, but if you are interested in improving your cars performance and your driving experience you will have made it to this sentence and will probably be clicking on amazon next to see how much the stuff is. (£23.95 delivered)
Will I use BG244 again?
I will be using it every 12 months, I don't expect to see as great as an improvement as I did this time as the engine won't be as bad. from what i have read, cars over 30000 miles have see improvements but cars with mileage like mine have seen the most.
there are other products that claim to do the same, but only BG244 has something I think is called PE added. and its this thats does the business.
Once again I have nothing to do with oil companies or BG244.
I drive a truck for a living that's all.
I hope you have found this informative and interesting. this weekend the wife and I are going away for the weekend and will be doing alot of motorway miles. I will post if I see any improvement on mpg with big motorway miles.
This simple additive has greatly improved my driving experience of my berlingo. the fact its doing an extra 50 miles to the tank! well, brucie bonus.
Chris.
