rev up your engines, today I'm taking a little different slant, today I'm showing you
some of the products that I tried out that failed miserably, and I wouldn't
tell anybody to buy them, because yes I have a
lot of junk in my garage, and to tell you the truth, some of this new stuff that
people sent me is exactly that junk, and the first one is this f1z power
launcher look at this thing, the theory behind this power launcher f1z is it
spins and creates turbulent air, you're supposed to put it inside your air duct
where the air goes into the engine, and then as the air is sucked in it's supposed
to spin it around, and make it work better and put more air and make your
engine faster, well this thing is total nonsense, all it's basically doing is
creating a little bit of the restriction to the air going to the your engine, if
anything it'll make you car run worse not better
yes turbochargers and superchargers that ram more air into the engine, they do
work for power, they have an external source of power, the turbochargers use
your exhaust gas to spin it, and the superchargers use a fan belt on your
engine that spins the supercharger that compresses the air and then throws it
into the engine, so stay away from the f1z, it's just a scam don't waste your
money, I've seen people waste their money on it
won't waste yours, now the next thing not to waste your
money on, is the BT master battery voltage monitor tester, it's supposed to
test your battery, your cranking system for the starter, and the alternator but
it's got numerous problems, the biggest one is, the app was this thing called BT
master app, I couldn't even get the phone to communicate with it, and I got an s9
it's a pretty good phone, I also have three or four others I tried them all
and none of them would even upload the app so it would interface with the device
itself, now since I couldn't even get the app to work, it was some kind of crazy
generic app, I went to Amazon and saw their
reviews, and the weird thing was, there were 10
reviews nine of them were saying how great it, was but one said, one star don't
believe the lies, and the other 9 they all praised it and
said how great it was but they are all written between two days in January this
year, it's kind of obvious that they were just seeding it with their own reviews
and unfortunately I see that all the time, especially with devices that
require an app now, to show you the difference, these are both supposed to do
the same thing battery charging system analyzers, this foxwell hey it's a
self-enclosed unit, it goes on the battery as you can see, it's got pretty
thick wires, look how cheesy the wires are on this other one, but the main thing is this
is a standalone device, you hook it up and it
checks your battery and charging system this thing it looks up and has this
little unit inside, but then there's an app that's supposed to go back and forth
on your phone in order to do the analysis, why on earth would you make a
device that's contained here and then you have to beam it with an app to your
phone, and hope that the thing works, it's just stupid, you would make a standalone
device that does it all itself like the Foxwell, why would you want to make
something like this very cheaply made as you can tell, the wires are
thinner, it's got cheap construction to it, and then you have an app that's some
kind of generic app that's used by testers to run their equipment, I see
these apps not work all the time, in this case the saying, you get what you pay for,
it's totally true, now this may only be 39.95
but it didn't even work, where the Foxwell is generally 130 dollars or so, it
works fantastic, there are times when if you want something that actually works,
you pay the price of a quality tool and you get it, don't just think you're gonna
get quality like this machine has that's gonna check batteries and charging
systems, but you're gonna be able to get it for like one quarter of the price of
one that actually works, and that's the main reason I'm showing this on my video,
because I literally have scores of devices like this, that are made in China,
that have an app the app doesn't work, or it does once in
a while, sometimes not others, and then when you do get the app to work and you
try the device, and compare it to one like the Foxwell that I know works
quite well, and they get completely different data, they often give false
data, so in the case of this BT battery monitor, believe the one bad review that
said don't believe all this hype, now I've talked about these devices before that
don't work, this is the X Y 4 plus key finder, supposed to put it on your keys,
your phone has an app, well it was an absolute pile of junk,
I bought it through Amazon and I complained later on last year, and now I
look at on Amazon they don't even sell the XY 4 plus anymore, because they
realize that it was a scam and they took it off their site, so when it comes to
buying tech items these days especially newer ones, don't believe hype that
people are going to say, whether it's advertising or one of the 10 best tools
of 2018, whatever nonsense people are throw it out to them, find somebody like
me who's tried them out or read serious
reviews about it before you're throwing your money out, because unfortunately
there's a lot of junk out there on the Internet
now the next thing not to buy is this zeta atomic metal conditioner, it's
supposed to revitalize your engine while you drive, now snake oil salesmen have
been around probably for centuries, but this one takes it to an extreme, listen
to what it claims it does, restores worn engine metals, compensates the
ongoing where parts, provides parts protection again loads, reduces noise
improves lubricating properties of oil, increases the engine life service span
reduces fuel consumption, increases engine power and acceleration, now is that
too good to be true, well yeah of course it is, I contacted the company and said
hey give me some scientific evidence that this stuff works, real scientists
that I can talk to or email back and forth and check their credentials to make
sure they real, and guess what, I never heard from them again
years ago I did he have a company that was selling some of the snake oil and
they actually gave me this University professor his email and his phone number
so I got ahold of the guy, and he said, I don't know where those guys
got my name from, but I would never back up some
snake-oil thing like that, I'm a scientist, I'm a university professor, I'd
lose my job if I was found selling snake oil and there's no proof that it helps
your car, so I told that to the company and guess what
I never heard from them again either, now years
ago there were some products out there, I'm talking about the 1970s 60s, you put
the additive in and it had metal in it, and the metal would bond onto worn
piston rings and stuff, and it actually did that to some extent, but you'd never
want to do that in a modern engine, they got variable valve timing, they have all
kinds of trick things with small little holes in them, and if you get metal
building up in those holes, they could clog up your engine and blow the whole
thing, so believe me stay away from these miracle snake oil additives that are
going to rebuild your engine, you're taking a chance you have no idea what's
inside these things, and in many cases these things can be 20,30,40 dollars a
bottle, it's just a scam, now since this is mechanic Monday, I'm gonna be giving a
product away, but I am NOT evil, I'm not gonna give away one of these snake oil
additives or products that don't work, I'm giving away the one hundred and
forty dollar Foxwell battery analyzer that's a good tool, to have a chance to
win just place the non-offensive comment on the youtube comments below, and a
winner will be chosen randomly by computer to win an actual battery and
charging system analyzer that works, so if you never want to miss another one of
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