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//You’re more likely to ruin your engine squeezing Heinz down your filler tube.
An ad for an EcoChip OBD2 device is making the rounds showing someone squeezing a whole bottle of ketchup into their gas tank. The caption reads, “1 simple trick to lower car fuel consumption by 55%.”
The ad, of course, is clickbait and no one should, under any circumstances, squeeze ketchup into your fuel filler. Not only will ketchup likely gum up your fuel system, if ketchup gets past your fuel filter, and into your fuel injectors, damage to your engine may occur.
So no, adding ketchup to your gas will not lower fuel consumption by 55%.
I’ll break down what’s in ketchup and what theoretically can happen if someone does squeeze ketchup into your gas tank.
Before that, let’s quickly debunk two things.
The EcoChip OBD2 device, which this clickbait advertisement leads to, is another scam OBD2 fuel saver device that does nothing but play a pre-programmed LED light show when plugged in.\\
Saw that "ad" and for haha's had to look and see what it says.
Thing is, the vids I've watched of stupid people/fails I wonder if any actually tried it, much to their regret. Besides, anyone stupid enuff to do that shouldn't even have a drivers license much less be allowed to have a car.
