Each live broadcast was asked "Is fuel treasure an IQ tax?" ”
Tiger had some helplessness and could only ask: "If a product really shouldn't exist, then why is its competition so fierce?" "As we all know, the essence of business is to meet the needs of users, and too many media on the Internet are writing about whether fuel treasure is IQ tax, but the problem is: few people say it clearly."
Today, Tiger will re-turn this "old tooth" problem and talk to you together to see how the attitude of car companies to fuel treasure and the owner's resistance to fuel treasure come about!
German, Japanese, American and European owners' manual
All require car owners to use fuel additives regularly
To say whether the fuel treasure is iq tax in the end, the manufacturer's owner's manual has long said the answer.
However, many car owners buy home from the new car until the sale of the car, this instruction manual is brand new.
If we turn over the owner's manual, we will find that the current German, Japanese, American and Korean cars will require the owner to use fuel additives (fuel treasure) regularly.
unbelief? Let's open the instruction manual one by one for everyone to see.
First of all, As a former Volkswagen, Buick owner, Tiger first talk to everyone.
Volkswagen's status as a half of the German car can naturally represent the vast majority of German cars.
In shanghai Volkswagen wrote in the "use and maintenance instructions": car owners should use fuel additives once every 7500 kilometers, and some 4S stores will also give away 2 free fuel treasures to retain the owners.
Faw-Volkswagen's "Instruction Manual" writes: It is recommended to use it once every 5,000 kilometers, and specifies that Volkswagen G17 additives should be used, and stipulates that the ratio of fuel to G17 fuel treasure is 1000:1.
Porsche and Audi are the same way to say the same, after all, their fathers are the Volkswagen Piech family (not Now Piëch).
Mercedes-Benz and BMW's requirements for fuel treasure are almost the same as those of Volkswagen, but in other words: "If you cannot guarantee the quality of local gasoline fuel, you can choose fuel additives according to the situation."
The implication is that you feel that the oil products are not good, you should use the fuel treasure for me to use, I also have the "original fuel treasure" you look at it yourself
Similarly, Japanese cars are also a large number of vehicles recommended to use fuel treasure.
Toyota's "Instruction manual" clearly states: every 10,000 kilometers to use fuel additives, Toyota and Volkswagen also have their own "official fuel treasure", and stated that the use of concentration: 40-70 liters of gasoline to add a bottle.
Honda also requires users to add fuel additives every 5,000 kilometers. Mazda also wrote "add fuel additives every 10,000 kilometers"...
Therefore, it is not difficult to see that the major manufacturers have always been recommended for the use of fuel additives (fuel treasure), and major manufacturers will have their own "original" additives for sale.
Since the major manufacturers of fuel treasure have corresponding supporting facilities, the owner also said that this is an IQ tax, which is a bit unreasonable.
The reason why fuel treasure is called "IQ tax"
This sentence begins with the global financial turmoil 13 years ago
As long as the owners and masters here are more than 40 years old, they will find that the fuel treasure thing was almost non-existent before 2008.
Why? At that time, there was no manufacturer to add fuel treasure to the owner, and the fuel additives were used by the car players to improve the octane level of fuel and reduce carbon deposits.
So why did fuel treasure suddenly appear after 2008? , the financial crisis has made a moth!
On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, the price of crude oil futures soared, when the price of Brent crude oil was as high as $147 / barrel! (In 2018, there was also a wave of crude oil surge, 98 # directly dried to 10 yuan / L)
As a result, the domestic big guys have a total, the cost of this gasoline is too high, and what to do if you buy the terminal and have no money to earn! Therefore, the "Notice on Reducing the Price of Refined Oil" in 2008 was introduced, which clearly stated that fuel purifiers could not be added to gasoline, and encouraged the sale of small packages of cleaning additives that are fuel treasures.
As soon as this document was issued, dual-use oils and various petrochemical companies directly blossomed, and the business opportunities were appropriate!
At that time, the quality of domestic gasoline and diesel was still in the national third standard, and the metal salt content in the fuel was relatively high. Coupled with the lack of excellent refining technology, the proportion of gum in the fuel is also high, and once there is no fuel detergent, the engine carbon deposit is leveraged.
At that time, the gasoline standard of the National III and China IV eras
So everyone worked the production line, and the major enterprises basically launched their own fuel treasures.
At that time, the owners of the car were not stupid, and they were not cold to the fuel treasure that just came out at that time, from tens to hundreds of yuan a can and there was no immediate effect.
In addition, after the media exposed the high profits of fuel treasure, the fuel treasure fell into the title of "IQ tax"
After three years of this, in 2011, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the "Control Standards for Harmful Substances of Gasoline for Vehicles - The Fourth and Fifth Stage" in order to reduce the exhaust pollution of motor vehicles, and added a mandatory requirement for the purity of gasoline for the 1999 gasoline hazardous substances control standards.
And it is clearly stated: "Gasoline should be added to the required fuel cleaner." "The gasoline supplied by refiners must be supplemented with fuel detergents to improve tailpipe emissions pollution.
At this point, the gasoline has been added back to the "fuel treasure", but it is really pitiful to say that the content is really poor.
The detergent content per liter of gasoline is only 5 PPM, that is, a PABA+PEA mixture of only 50 mg per liter of gasoline (the ratio of detergent is not disclosed)
Ladies and gentlemen, you read it right, just throw it away, you can remove the carbon deposit to remove a ghost ~
The final result is that the gasoline detergent before 2008 has not yet been revived with full blood, and the fuel treasure known as the IQ tax as an artificial addition has become the common cognition of many car owners.
Fuel treasure is recommended in principle
But in real life, not all cars need it
As for whether to add fuel treasure in the end?
This question Islego put at the end to talk about, here to be clear.
It is recommended to use it, but new cars and cars with good condition do not need to add fuel treasure, because it is meaningless to add.
As for the old car, which is very old, in fact, I recommend that it is best not to touch the fuel treasure (it is also recommended not to do carbon deposit cleaning in the cylinder). The reason is the same as we do not recommend that old cars use oils with too strong cleaning performance. After years of use, the problem of carbon deposit and sludge may have been very serious, and it is actually dangerous to do cleaning at this time.
The main thing is to worry that the fuel treasure encounters a larger thickness and a long accumulation time of the carbon deposit layer, if it penetrates into the carbon deposit layer, causing the bottom of the carbon deposit layer to soften, and finally the carbon deposition is peeled off, then the large carbon deposit cannot be burned in the combustion chamber. Maybe it will lead to some failures, but it will be worse.
Then the remaining car is more than 1 year old, normal driving in the city, stop-and-go, and not too old car, only need to consider the use of fuel treasure according to the situation.
Here Tiger is divided into two categories:
Manifold injection model: do not waste money before 40,000 kilometers, after 40,000 kilometers can consider using fuel treasure, more money every 20,000 kilometers to use once, as a health care product to prevent fuel injector blockage.
Cylinder direct injection vehicle: according to the provisions of the use, many cylinder direct injection vehicles in the original manual requires the regular use of fuel treasure, generally 5,000-10,000 kilometers to use a bottle.
To recommend, Taige himself recommends two brands, one is the red line S-1 and Bafu G17 (Dafeng production) are fuel additives with a relatively high concentration of PEA content, and the price is more cost-effective.
Among them, if the red line encounters a special price spike, less than 270 can buy 4 bottles, and each time you add 50ml, you can use 8-9 times. (Don't listen to the manufacturer say that the first time to add the whole bottle)
And the G17 of Bafu produced by Dafeng is not well known, and there is no premium at present, so Taige also likes it. (I don't like the price increase)
As for other brands, Tiger believes that the premium of big brands is too high and is not very willing to recommend.
Other car beauty brands also do fuel treasure, although the price is cost-effective, but it has not been used and it is not good to evaluate ~