Skoda and Hyundai - Millers petrol additive.

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Sun 12 Aug 2018 21:26
Skoda and Hyundai - Millers petrol additive. - KB.

People here will know I'm not posting to advertise so will say at the outset I'm speaking about Millers Petrol Power Eco Max (500ml) bought for £12.99 today from Halfords.

I saw mentioned, elsewhere, the abovementioned stuff and much prefer not to reply there, but to start from scratch here if that's OK.

The suggestion is that it might improve this, that and the other as well as increase the mileage per gallon etc etc. Obviously additives are regularly spoken of and each will have their own experience or opinion and it will have been covered before, although I searched and didn't see reference to this particular product.

HJ did speak of it but I can't see where as we speak ... maybe it was an advert of some sort?

Had I not seen it mentioned I wouldn't have gone looking for it - but both my cars return quite poor mpg figures and so after seven or eight years of ownership I thought I'd try it (admittedly a bit late in the day).

Only bought it today and it seems to suggest that it's best put in before filling the tank ... and they're both full up so there won't be any quick results.

But I pose the (obvious) question ... am I likely to see ANY sort of difference in an automatic 1.2 petrol Hyunda and a DSG 1.2 petrol Yeti, both of which mainly do short journeys with occasional decent runs? Might it clean the pipes out a bit? Might I see a tiny improvement in anything? Was it a total waste of £12.99?

Edited by KB. on 12/08/2018 at 21:30

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Sun 12 Aug 2018 22:11
Skoda and Hyundai - Millers petrol additive. - FP

I'm a fan of Miller's fuel additives, having used the diesel version with a Peugeot 306 HDi for over 100,000 miles; the petrol version with a Ford Focus Mk 2 for over 80,000 miles; and the petrol stuff for my present Mazda CX-5, in which I've done around 10,000 miles.

I've had no fuel-related problems in any of these cars, unless you count the EGR valve that had to be replaced on the Focus.

My feeling (unproven) was that fuel consumption improved a little after a while using the Miller's and I did get (and am getting) excellent figures for all three, but probably that's my driving style as much as anyting else.

None of this anecdotal evidence proves a thing, of course.

To answer your question: you're not likely to notice anything much - maybe a little more smoothness, maybe a little more economy, maybe nothing. No-one has produced satisfactory evidence that there are any effects attributable to additives and often people who've spent money want to believe things that aren't there.

Maybe - just maybe - if you have been using unbranded fuel (as I do), which lacks the more sophisticated additives of branded fuels, you will have a cleaner engine. But who knows?

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Mon 13 Aug 2018 12:14
Skoda and Hyundai - Millers petrol additive. - KB.

That's all sensible, helpful and vaguely reassuring :-) ... ta muchly.

I should have said I use ordinary Shell, 95 octane, every time... almost always from the same place. The bottle says it increases the octane rating by one or two numbers ... but that offers no particular cause for optimism as I've tried the posh stuff in the past and noticed not a scrap of difference in my modest vehicles.

In no way would I want to resurrect the "supermarket versus branded" argument and wouldn't want it to occur again here.... I just happen to have a Shell garage locally and they are always the cheapest hereabouts so that's where I go (and they're always busy therefore my thinking is they must always have a regular turnover of fuel).

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Mon 13 Aug 2018 13:22
Skoda and Hyundai - Millers petrol additive. - gordonbennet

I use it in SWMBO Forester XT, which should have the premium fuel but instead gets Sainsbug's semi premium stuff and a dose of the Millers, not expecting any better fuel economy (its drinks the stuff anyway), and now it's been LPG converted it runs very little on petrol anyway.

I've used the Millers Diesel additive for years, again mainly to make use of the cetane increase as well as the claimed cleaning properties.

I've put this link up before, the photos had disappeared recently due to Photobucket's policy change but they are back now, make of it what you will

forums.seatcupra.net/index.php?threads/millers-die.../

i run older Diesels and have for ever and i do not get engine or fuelling issues (here's hoping that hasn't given fate a call), but they are maintained well and driven with mechanical sympathy which does not mean they are babied, i have faith in Millers products so have every expectation the petrol additive is as good.

Fuel consumption is so very driver dependant, if you have more torque and make use of it sensibly and with reserve then better fuel consumption can follow, but most people use the extra power for higher performance overall and the only thing making you go (accelerate) faster is burning more fuel.

Edited by gordonbennet on 13/08/2018 at 13:25

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Tue 14 Aug 2018 13:48
Skoda and Hyundai - Millers petrol additive. - Gibbo_Wirral

I'm also a fan of Millers diesel products, although I've not yet tried the petrol ones.

Some on here will do doubt churn out the usual old "snake oil" comment.

However, there's good video evidence from Channel 5's 5th Gear which shows marked improvements from additives used on a car on a rolling road test.

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Tue 14 Aug 2018 14:26
Skoda and Hyundai - Millers petrol additive. - KB.

Ta for the replies. It'll be a little while before I can offer any thoughts, but will do so.

At least the response makes me feel as though it might have been worth while.

If it doubles my mpg and gives me a 0-60 of 3 seconds I'll wish I hadn't waited till now to try it.

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