I mean come on the first italian tune up could have helped more than anything else

Hi cheezemonkhai,

is this an idiom, or do you really mean that any italian tune up would do? I can assure it is not , sadly :D:D:D

Erm ok I have no idea what you just said sorry

Most (probably all) of these car program "tests" are completely hopeless because they fail on most of the fundamentals of scientific research which are designed to remove confounding variables and bias - the largest problems in all research.

Essentially the sample sizes are way too small especially considering the small differences, there are no controls, there is no randomisation and no attempt at blinding.

Basically all rubbish. At least TG makes it obvious they have no pretensions at being serious.

I have no doubt 2T oil will go through the PD injectors ok, but it will wreck your cat over the long term.

Id like to know where this information comes from so I can feed it back into the Landrover discussions.

Thanks.

Well, personal experience and common sense, really. While 2T engine oils are designed to have a low ash content, that is still nowhere close to modern diesel.

Apart from that, a diesel runs hotter than a petrol engine, so the oil might behave in an unexpected fashion at this temp.

Apart from that, a diesel runs hotter than a petrol engine, so the oil might behave in an unexpected fashion at this temp.

I disagree strongly. Typical exhaust temperatures (in a road car) are 900 degC for a petrol and 600 degC for a diesel; have you ever put your hand near an exhaust pipe of a car?

...meanwhile I'm on my second charge, with 2Toil ratio 1:200 and the car resembles more a rocket (perhaps is the kerosene effect?) lol

@cheezemonkhai: I simply meant that I didn't understand your statement "I mean come on the first italian tune up could have helped more than anything else".

..@cheezemonkhai: I simply meant that I didn't understand your statement "I mean come on the first italian tune up could have helped more than anything else".

Perhaps he's referring to the way Italians drive; that makes their cars faster than anyone else's? :confused:

Perhaps he's referring to the way Italians drive; that makes their cars faster than anyone else's? :confused:

...ahhh, I see, of course (some dumb just stated that his cars was running "like a rocket") ...

Ciao

Ahh right,

Basically take a car that's done 50k miles normally and then stick it on a RR. The RR run will give the car an italian tune up, eg blast all the cr*p out, but you won't notice the effect of this on the first run. (The term is fairly well known for term for driving the car hard and getting all the cr*p out of it.)

Then fill the car with another fuel and look a performance increase. That increase will almost certainly be from the clean up.

What i'm saying is if they had done a set of runs on normal fuel, then branded fuel, then normal fuel again I bet the last normal fuel run would be the same.

Like I said, it's very odd that two very different fuels coming from very different processes (BP Ultimate Derv and V-Power Derv) both cause *exactly the same* increase in power.

One new term learned, thank you.