anyone here tried zmax?

**JMRQuattro** · 01-09-2009 02:09 PM

I was just watching the speed network and i was watching that show they have called "truckU" where they fix up old trucks and stuff. They were talking about the 02 sensors and one of the guys had a little "quick tip" and he said that the vmax fuel additive helps keep the 02 sensor clean and by doing so helps it keep at full operating capacity and helps fuel economy.

I thought it sounded like another gimic, basically something that zmax probably paid them to say as subtle advertising. But just wondering if anyone has actually tried the stuff.

**Capt. Obvious** · 01-09-2009 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by SeatownB6

I thought it sounded like another gimic, basically something that zmax probably paid them to say as subtle advertising.

That's what I think.

**JMRQuattro** · 01-09-2009 02:50 PM

yeah that's usually the case...

**Molotov** · 01-09-2009 02:53 PM

TruckU is sponsored by vmax if you haven't noticed, pretty much every commercial break they have a "how can you protect your blank against blank, we'll have the answer right after this" and then it comes back with some vmax additive.

**JMRQuattro** · 01-09-2009 02:56 PM

yeah i know, that's why i didn't rush out the door to buy some VMAX! I feel like i've seen a thread on this before but when i searched VMAX i only found 2 threads

I somehow feel like i remember someone posting something about it with a pic of their crazy science fiction bottle that looks like a movie style chemistry beaker.

**Capt. Obvious** · 01-09-2009 03:02 PM

I've actually given some of those additives a try in some of my other (older, less cared-about) cars. They're all a bunch of BS.

Personally, SeaFoam is the only "miracle" product out there that actually does anything in my opinion (and experience).

**JMRQuattro** · 01-09-2009 03:07 PM

That's too bad that all that stuff doesn't work. It would be really cool if someone could actually put some effort into figuring out an additive that could somehow mix with the fuel and actually chemically create more particles per part in your fuel and really increase fuel economy...

But then that would be insanely expensive, and oil companies would probably throw a bitch fit.

**Capt. Obvious** · 01-09-2009 03:09 PM

Well that, and the whole part about it being more or less against the laws of physics.

**JMRQuattro** · 01-09-2009 03:11 PM

yeah that too, the law of the conservation of mass or some crap... matter cannot be created nor destroyed or something along those lines.

**Splattj** · 01-09-2009 05:30 PM

ZMax has been sued by the FTC for unsubstantiated performance claims:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/02/zmax1.shtm

It's snake oil, but people keep buying it anyway.