This may well be a Ginge - miracle gadget

Look, I'm just a bit busy for googling at the mo. If it is a ginge, please
just one reply pointing me at the conversation will suffice.

Thanks.

http://viabtor.co.uk/ - makes your car better apparently.

 

it'd go well with some magnets in the fuel lines.

 

Coo, I wonder how many people they'll get to buy that bit of crap.

 

I love this from the FAQ:

Q/ How do I know if my VIABTOR is working? -
A/ If the VIABTOR’s green light is on the VIABTOR is working.

 

Malc escribió:

They're spending loads on big adverts in the English language press here.
Can there be any truth in the claims? That kind of claim sounds to me the
sort that might be considered illegal in some countries.

Sig-sep's bust.

 

It seems quite carefully worded to avoid that kind of charge. Most
tellingly that TUV are not actually quoted as to what they approved it
for

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A quick Google brought up this:

"Actually the viabtor works very well, its more like a device from star
trek, the only problem I had was with the fluxuation capacitor, but
after I rerouted the aphasia device to the anyon emitter the antimatter
injectors cleaned themselves, great stuff....... go buy one and see for
yourself"

http://www.vectra-c.com/forum/showthread.php?s=2916fbe68f1d92d6e1d81888898e2bc7&t=114756

 

I'll provide a plug with a green LED for only ¤25 thereby undercutting
this lot

 

It's bollocks. ECUs are designed to work in an electrically noisy
environment where the voltage is likely to vary. They incorporate all
sorts of compensation, not just electrical, but for things like fuel
rail pressure variation and other such effects.

 

Not as beautifully pointless as this ..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DUMP-VALVE-SI...UND-BLOW-OFF-NOISE-/350340578688?cmd=ViewItem

Paul.

 

zymurgy escribió:

NOISE-/350340578688?cmd=ViewItem

Didn't follow the link, but I reckon there's more blowoff valve simulators
than there are blowoff valves around here. My car's got a turbo - does that
mean it makes that silly noise? I don't here it from inside.

 

I sense a business opportunity. Surely this lot can come up with a
better totally useless object and make money off it. Use the profits
to fund strippers at the *oSM.

 

Almost certainly just a capacitor across the 12 V supply. Any
capacitor that can smooth out the spikes and dips on a car's electrical
system would be nigh as big as the car, before you start to muse on the
effects of the inductance of the various positive rails between the
battery, the generator, the device, and the power-consuming components.

Snake-oil. Avoid!

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Well it does say "up to 10%"

so that could be zero, then

Tested by the TUeF - doesn't say what the results were

Are they really saying that the voltage regulators in the ECU aren't
doing the job they were designed for?

What's that big **** off voltage stabiliser I see - aah a battery

I wonder how much snake oil would come out if you crushed it ?

 

Exactly: after all, an ECU has to work when the voltage dips quite
significantly when a not-so-new battery is cold-cranking on a winter
morning.

In fact, when the alternator went phut on my Guzzi Quota, the voltage
got so low on one journey that the tacho needle had drooped at least a
thousand RPM and the indicators were barely visible, but the engine
was running fine. It was the tacho droop that alerted me to the fact
that something was wrong - the bloody charge warning light hadn't come
on. As soon as I turned the headlights off the tacho sprang back up to
the correct revs.

 

I already have a cheaper one with a much cooler blue LED. And it has an
USB plug so it will also charge my phone or GPS. Must be the
multi-function version.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DUMP-VALVE-SIMULATOR-TURBO-WHISTLE-SOUND-BLOW-OFF-
NOISE-/350340578688?cmd=ViewItem

That is not pointless.

That's genius.

 

Not as good as the Police Dept exhaust siren:
http://tinyurl.com/35hs8tx

Steve

 

boots wibbled forthrightly:

I've already got one. It charges my phone at the same time.

 

That's hilarious.

I spent so much time finding various springs for blow-off valves to
shut the fucking things up unless I was on full throttle. Don't these
poseurs realise they are actually losing power by driving around city
streets going PTISH every time they change gear?

I do recall a daughter of a mate of mine saying she loved the sound of
my car when the blowoff did cut in..

Must be a young peoples' thing. I just wanted the thing to shut the
**** up.