marcjagman
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| posted on 5/1/11 at 01:26 PM |
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Snake oil, or will it work? Thoughts please
Saw this on ebay and wondering what you chaps and chapettes think. 1 TUNING CHIP Mazda 626 Demio Tribute MX-5 RX-8 MPV MX5 on eBay
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balidey
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| posted on 5/1/11 at 01:30 PM |
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OK, so now instead of a 1p resistor then now sell a 5p chip..... that does the same thing. And they tell you its not the cheap resistor.
Keep well away.
In 6 months time there will be something similar that is 'not the 5p chip'
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mookaloid
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| posted on 5/1/11 at 01:30 PM |
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For £7.95? for a 'tuning chip to add 30 BHP'? snake oil? .......................
You can bet it is 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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balidey
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| posted on 5/1/11 at 01:33 PM |
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Its not snake oil. Snake oil is harmless, these things are dangerous. They trick the ecu into leaning off the mixture (If I have read it right) so
maybe its ok for a couple of miles and it will give more power, but don't expect the engine to live very long.
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blakep82
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| posted on 5/1/11 at 01:41 PM |
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lol look at it. its a chip stuck in a bit of bread board, and a few wires. erm, no
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scudderfish
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| posted on 5/1/11 at 01:57 PM |
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He deserves a Nobel prize, he's only gone an discovered how to produce monopole magnets!
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It works by charging fuel molecules with a single polarity, this means the molecules repel each other which results in the fuel dispersing more
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Liam
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| posted on 5/1/11 at 02:53 PM |
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LOL! I bet you one-meeeeeelion dollars that is a resistor network chip with one of the resistors on it used. What a bl**dy nerve! At least the
scumbags selling 1p resistors are semi-open about it (in so far as that they can't really hide it), but this to**er is actively lying to people
telling them it's not just a resistor, when in fact it damn well is!
quote:
Originally posted by balidey
Its not snake oil. Snake oil is harmless, these things are dangerous. They trick the ecu into leaning off the mixture (If I have read it right) so
maybe its ok for a couple of miles and it will give more power, but don't expect the engine to live very long.
I thought they generally fooled the engine into enrichment rather than leaning out. That's where all that extra powaaah comes from, right??
Either way - total pile of crap. These people should be flogged.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 5/1/11 at 04:40 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Liam
LOL! I bet you one-meeeeeelion dollars that is a resistor network chip with one of the resistors on it used. What a bl**dy nerve!
Exactly what I thought when I saw it. The fact that it only has two wires coming out of the box would seem to confirm this.
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McLannahan
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| posted on 5/1/11 at 06:28 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by Liam
LOL! I bet you one-meeeeeelion dollars that is a resistor network chip with one of the resistors on it used. What a bl**dy nerve!
Exactly what I thought when I saw it. The fact that it only has two wires coming out of the box would seem to confirm this.
Hmm...indeed! A IC fed by just two connections!  It's clearly a resistor in reality, no matter how he tries to disguise it!
This may help
http://www.obd2crazy.com/techdiat.html
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 5/1/11 at 06:51 PM |
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That idiot is in the same village as i work. Someone get his address so we can pay him a visit.
Perhaps fitting one of those boxes up his arse will make him go faster !!!
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