Do these actually work? - Page 2

sworks · 1st March 2019, 20:42

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Originally Posted by marinabrian

No they don't work, there are various reasons why, but you could try some of this in the fuel tank instead

Brian

You forgot to add a link to buy some........

marinabrian · 1st March 2019, 21:20

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Originally Posted by sworks

You forgot to add a link to buy some........

Shh, don't tell Sir Toppham Hatt though

LINK

Brian

MSS · 2nd March 2019, 07:36

Please people - stop casting aspersions about snake oil. Many of us have been using it for years for all sorts of applications. It works wonderfully. I have a very happy life thanks to snake oil.

I'm pretty sure Brian uses it for clutch lubrication but keeps it a trade secret.

hogweed · 2nd March 2019, 08:03

Original (genuine) snake oil was supposed to help with joint pain etc – not so far-fetched as you might think, as it contained some of the essential fatty acids found in fish oil, which some people also believe to help with that.

Its reputation as a bogus cure-all actually stemmed from travelling con men knocking up “patent medicines” sold as snake oil, but actually being mixtures of motor oil and whatever other drugs they had to hand (heroin, cocaine etc). The use of genuine snake oil originated as part of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) hundreds of years ago.

It would seem that the temptation to con people this way is hard for some people to resist – people flock in their hordes to present-day practitioners of TCM here in the UK. TCM is of doubtful medical value, as evidenced by the fact that there was a series of prosecutions in the 90’s of TCM practitioners who were found to be adulterating their “harmless” herbal medicines with powerful drugs in a effort to make them actually effective.

I had a personal experience of this back then with a TCM practitioner in Bath. For many years, I had been disabled for several months of each year by severe hay fever, with the only effective drug being a powerful steroid, which came with an impressive portfolio of side-effects, and whose usage and dosage needed to be very carefully controlled, and which I was reluctant to take.

I was treated by the TCM “doctor”, and was delighted to find that my symptoms were dramatically reduced. However, as they used to say in the Letters page of VIZ, Brian, imagine my surprise when I saw on the local news that the TCM guys in Bath had been arrested for doping their herbs with dangerously high doses of said steroid…

CivilSteve · 3rd March 2019, 06:48

As previously mentioned it's little more than a box of lights, still probably better to fit that some of the laughable remaps that float about (if you add 20% to enough stuff something good has to happen right? )

The ones that plug into the engine bay sensors are at least more likely to do something, but bending voltages to get results isn't ideal when the ECU can be tuned properly

2nd March 2019, 08:03	#14
hogweed I really should get out more....... Vauxhall Insignia CDTi; MG TF 135 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Norn Iron Posts: 2,958 Thanks: 942 Thanked 378 Times in 297 Posts	Original (genuine) snake oil was supposed to help with joint pain etc – not so far-fetched as you might think, as it contained some of the essential fatty acids found in fish oil, which some people also believe to help with that. Its reputation as a bogus cure-all actually stemmed from travelling con men knocking up “patent medicines” sold as snake oil, but actually being mixtures of motor oil and whatever other drugs they had to hand (heroin, cocaine etc). The use of genuine snake oil originated as part of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) hundreds of years ago. It would seem that the temptation to con people this way is hard for some people to resist – people flock in their hordes to present-day practitioners of TCM here in the UK. TCM is of doubtful medical value, as evidenced by the fact that there was a series of prosecutions in the 90’s of TCM practitioners who were found to be adulterating their “harmless” herbal medicines with powerful drugs in a effort to make them actually effective. I had a personal experience of this back then with a TCM practitioner in Bath. For many years, I had been disabled for several months of each year by severe hay fever, with the only effective drug being a powerful steroid, which came with an impressive portfolio of side-effects, and whose usage and dosage needed to be very carefully controlled, and which I was reluctant to take. I was treated by the TCM “doctor”, and was delighted to find that my symptoms were dramatically reduced. However, as they used to say in the Letters page of VIZ, Brian, imagine my surprise when I saw on the local news that the TCM guys in Bath had been arrested for doping their herbs with dangerously high doses of said steroid… __________________ Past cars: MGB GT; Escort 1300 Sport; Vauxhall VX4/90; Marina Coupe TC; Celica ST (1972); Montego Turbo; Astra GTE 16V; Astra GSI 16V; Golf GTI 16V (Mk II); Sierra XR4x4 Estate; BMW 325i (E30); BMW M3 3.0; BMW M3 3.2 Evo. Left some of the more embarrassing ones out. And about 30 motorbikes.

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2nd March 2019, 07:36	#13
MSS This is my second home Rover 75CDT, Jaguar XF-S 3.0V6, V'xhall Omega V6 Estate, Twintop 1.8VVT, Astra Estate and Corsa 1.2 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Suffolk Posts: 7,083 Thanks: 283 Thanked 624 Times in 440 Posts	Please people - stop casting aspersions about snake oil. Many of us have been using it for years for all sorts of applications. It works wonderfully. I have a very happy life thanks to snake oil. I'm pretty sure Brian uses it for clutch lubrication but keeps it a trade secret.

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CivilSteve Avid contributor MG ZT Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Manchester Posts: 237 Thanks: 20 Thanked 108 Times in 56 Posts	As previously mentioned it's little more than a box of lights, still probably better to fit that some of the laughable remaps that float about (if you add 20% to enough stuff something good has to happen right? ) The ones that plug into the engine bay sensors are at least more likely to do something, but bending voltages to get results isn't ideal when the ECU can be tuned properly