The car was filled with a tank of the cheapest supermarket petrol and went to Aldon Automotives rolling road (01384 572553) for a power run as our base setting. The engine is the 1.6 version and is completely standard in every respect. After 19 years of being sniggered at for being a hairdressers car it’s clocked up about 90 thousand miles. We need to put them to the test and see what difference they really make. Each car is different but there are some regular offenders that crop up on forums. Sometimes the ‘scientific’ explanations for how the product works sound more like a shampoo advert than proper technical engineering. It’s hard to know if you’re being ripped off or not.Ĭyberspace is littered with dubious products that promise to make your car into a Koenigsegg Killer for the cost of a chicken biryani. Seeing as so much happens on the internet these days companies on the other side of the world can claim what they like, show you a rolling road print out and take your hard earned money off you. It’s easy to claim you’ll get mega bangs for your bucks, and much harder to disprove for sure that you won‘t. Everyone always wants more for less, and there’s plenty of companies out there that’ll offer you just that.
In the car tuning industry bullshit proves a fairly powerful force too. There’s a well established phrase that goes something like ‘Money makes the world go around’.
The following article has been written by Applied Autosport for Practical Perfromance Car magazine
Our test mule awaiting some modifications
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