TIRED OF HIGH FUEL PRICES? Find out how an '07 F-150 improved MPG by 22%! MPG Xtreme Fuel Cap Review

Tired of high fuel prices? How did a 2007 Ford F-150 go from 15.88 to 19.43 miles per gallon? Find out now. Hi, I'm Kevin Hunter here today with the amazing Elizabeth, the homework gal. I gave you guys a heads up a little over a week ago that we were conducting fuel economy tests on a new product. Well, we can now tell you what it was. It's the MPG Extreme fuel cap. Before we get into the meat of this video, I want to be clear that the official claim of the company MPG Extreme is that this product optimizes fuel economy, boosts octane, improves power and performance, and reduces emissions. Best of all, it's made in the USA and it works for both gas and diesel engines. There's no other official claim than that. The fuel tests you are about to witness are tests we independently conducted on the Homework Guy F-150 truck and the results we produced are our own. You could have the same result or a worse result or even a better result with your vehicle. Also, I want to give a shout out to a good friend of mine, Mike Renz, who introduced us to MPG Extreme. When he told me what the product was, I said, Mike, I want to test it myself. I appreciate you. I believe you, but I have to prove it for my audience. If it works, I'll sell the crap out of it. You see, Mike is a longtime car buff and a gearhead. He knows cars high performance engines and babies them like a son or daughter. I knew he wouldn't put anything in them that could harm them. So he immediately had my attention. Here's just a few examples of the cars he owns. So for you hot rod owners out there, perhaps it's not fuel economy that you're after, but the good news is this product is for you too. It helps to keep your high performance engine clean and give you some extra kick. Thanks, Mike, for considering us and the audience here at the Homework Guy Automotive Channel. And what great timing, huh? Who doesn't want better fuel economy when gas and diesel prices are at record highs? Are you kidding me? Yeah. In a moment, we're going to show you the video footage of our fuel economy test. But for those of you who are impatient to hear the bottom line results, our 2007 Ford F-150 went from 15.88 miles per gallon to 19.43 miles per gallon. That's a whopping improvement of 22%. So here's another way to think about it. This Ford truck had a range of 428 miles at 15.88 miles per gallon on a 27-gallon tank before the fuel cap. Now with the MPG Extreme fuel cap in the tank, it has a range of 524 miles. It saves just over six gallons of gas at $4.59 a gallon here, netting a $27.75 savings just by introducing a $1.99 fuel cap. The return on investment is off the hook, you guys. Indeed. Also, if you're thinking about taking a vacation, you need the fuel savings and you can enjoy the benefit of increasing your travel distance between fuel ups. 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We look forward to your great testimonies of the product and having you join our team. Thanks for your interest in MPG Xtreme. The test footage is coming up. All right, so this vehicle we're doing the fuel test with today is a 2007 Ford F-150. It is the official, the homework guy truck. I actually enjoy the F-150 myself. This has been a great runner for us. I know sometimes people ding on the year that this particular truck is 2007 and say the year is you know just before just after it had some engine troubles. We've had no trouble with this whatsoever but have maintained it very well, kept the oil changed. All right, so the tank is filled up. We were able to squeeze in 20.485 gallons. Highway robbery in action. 169.109.7 is where we're starting at and we'll zero out the trip odometer to aid us on this. There you go. Okay, current temperature is 73 degrees and forecast to hit around 80 degrees today and we have a crosswind we're going to be dealing with on the way out and back at 14 miles an hour. Okay, to aid in our fuel discovery we have a scanning device hooked up to the truck. Shows the engine coolant temperature at 190 degrees and that STFT is short-term fuel trim. That's bank one. So this is the first leg of the trip without the fuel cap and we'll see how things change as we go along. Okay, so I got the cruise set for 60 miles an hour and that's what we'll run on the next trip too. This speed limit in this area is higher than this so I can actually run faster. By the way, you might notice that there's a couple of lights on on the dash cluster. I was just thinking about that, yeah. Ford is known to have problems with their dash clusters and on this year of trucks they commonly go out and so in the not distant future that dash cluster is going to get replaced. I try to give the truck the best opportunity to get the best fuel economy, base economy that it can and of course then when I have the fuel cap on the second leg of the trip we'll do the run cruise at 60 miles an hour with that as well. Because of the temperature of the day I'm also running AC on low and so we'll we'll do that on the second leg of the trip with the fuel cap as well. I wanted to mention something else to you guys. Can you hand me that OBD port thing? We are quite fully aware that there's a lot of things that claim to increase fuel economy. This is actually one of them. This little device is one of those things known as an OBD port device and the claim is is that it increases your horsepower, adjusts the oxygen fuel mixture and gives you 15 to 30 percent better fuel economy. Well we would have already published something on these OBD port devices if they actually worked. So I've had conversations with a few friends about them and have had very mixed results. So we do not recommend getting a OBD port device no matter what claims they make about it. I think I cover this later on in this video but the truck actually got worse fuel economy with the OBD port device in. So those things are selling like hot cakes over at Amazon. Don't your money on that stuff. Okay another check of the device. You can show it shows our vehicle speed on there 60 miles an hour and the engine rpm is 1800 and our outside temperature on the truck shows 71 degrees. The intake air temperature is at 77 degrees. This route from Williston to Minot is about 120 miles and about a two hour trip roughly. So if you notice how flat this is this is from Williston to Minot. Yeah. And years ago I was actually on a deployment in the Dakotas and the commanding officer who briefed us said this place is so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days. It is about that flat. Yeah. So this was a great place to do a fuel economy test. So we were initially just going to do a trip out put the fuel cap in out there in Minot and then turn around and come back but we decided that we wanted to give a little bit longer test and it makes the data that much more reliable. Okay the interesting part was is I discovered that my scanner also gives me a CAT TE 11 and CAT TE 21 readout. That is the incoming and outgoing temperature for the exhaust and the catalytic converter. Okay we have returned from the baseline miles per gallon test that we ran. Set the trip and it shows 246.7. Here's the mileage on the odometer 169, 356.4 and it's 68 degrees outside or the truck is showing 68 degrees. And if we look over here we have just under a half a tank of fuel. Not so scientific but we'll see what that looks like on the return trip. Just under a half a tank on this first trip and is remaining and just over a half a tank will be remaining on the second leg of the trip. Yep. And that is actually with just a half tank of treated fuel going through the truck. So pretty exciting stuff. All right Liz here has read the packaging and it says one and a half caps for 21 to 30 gallons and we're going to have a bit of that. So the capsule is going into the tank. There's one. The capsules that you guys will be getting are actually round not oblong like these are. There we go. And in goes a half of so that's one and a half capsules are in the tank. Let's go ahead and fuel this thing up and see what our miles per gallon came back as on the baseline. All right here we go. $4.59 is what this cost of this gas is per gallon. You know Liz what was the cheapest gas we ran into out in Minot? $4.09. $4.09. A few cents cheaper. Yes. They drill out here so perhaps they can afford it hey. Or not. Okay. Yeah we are in Williston right in the epicenter if you would of all the oil drilling. And it was quite funny when we did our video on the EV vehicles and people said oh are you guys getting a payoff from the oil companies? No. Yeah the oil companies would love for us to be doing a video on saving on gas. Okay and again we're fueling up with the 87 octane $4.59. All right so she's getting close to being done. It just hurts every time you look at it. There we are 71 smackers for 15.534 gallons. Let's see what the math works out to on this. Okay so 246.7 miles driven and what was the gallons there Liz? 15.534 gallons. So miles per gallon is 15.88 on the first trip. 15.88. Remember I was saying mentioning on our run out yesterday that we have tried these green OBD port devices. With that device in the truck got 15.77 on a recent trip. So miles per gallon actually went up without it. The truck did better without. People say there's a lot of things out there claiming to do better gas mileage. That's one of them and it doesn't work you guys. Okay with the fuel cap in the tank we are starting out at 169.356.4. I'm going to zero out the trip and you can see we got a nice full tank of gas over here. So we'll see what it looks like on the gas gauge when we return and see how the miles per gallon figure out. Okay cruise is set for 60 miles an hour. The scanner also shows 60 miles an hour and 1800 rpms. So running at very similar rpms and same speed. Weather conditions today are very similar to what they were yesterday. So light crosswind 14 miles an hour about 15 miles an hour. It's very similar to yesterday and a nice wide open highway. So we encountered very little traffic yesterday. We'll see if our dogs are still in the way. You notice the crack in the windshield. There's a lot of dirt roads in North Dakota and you get rocks thrown on your windshield quite often. It's a Sunday today that we're running making this route so we should encounter light traffic today as well. Thanks to Liz for holding on to the steering wheel while I do these checks. Do not try this at home. Do not try this at home. All right you guys a little mid-trip update here. We are 75 miles into this trip and based on a 15.88 miles per gallon baseline just over four gallons of treated gas have gone through the engine. Now if you remember we were at 1400 plus degrees on the CAT TE 11 and 21. And to refresh your memory on those those are the in and out temperatures of the catalytic converter. And so we've been running now in the low 1300s to upper 1200 degrees. So probably a hundred plus degrees cooler in the catalytic converter and after a conversation with our in-house engineer who's done combustion studies he said that would be due to a lower amount of unburnt fuel in the exhaust system. Pretty awesome. Hope to have some good results for you guys here when this is all done. That's somewhere in the neighborhood of 140 degrees cooler in the catalytic converter already in this short of time. All right guys here we are 149 miles into our the second leg of our mileage test. And if you look over here our gas gauge is hanging out at a quarter of a tank in gas use. And that was uh there was more than that much gas gone yesterday when we were 150 miles. Well more than halfway through and just over a quarter of a tank. The other thing I want to show you is take a look here at our scanner. We're comfortably in the 1200 degree range in the catalytic converter. Both intake and output 1289-1288. That's awesome. So the fact that the catalytic converter is even cooler means less unburnt fuel is leaving the cylinders. All right we are nearing the end of the trip. We've got 213 miles on in the second leg of the trip. And look down here our catalytic converter in and out temperatures 1190-1189. That is fantastic. All right we are at the conclusion of our trip. Take a look at that gas gauge. It is well under half a tank of gas used for the second leg of the trip with the treated fuel. The mileage out is 169-598.4 169-598.4 for 241.9 miles. Okay here it comes. Right here so filling this bad boy back up to see what the mileage is. 15.5 gallons it took for that first trip. Wow 12.733. All right over three gallons less. All right so 12.733 gallons is what we filled up with here against 241.9 miles like this. How many miles is it? Okay so Liz had this close. It was 15.5 gallons is what it took on the other trip. And this one was 12.733. So what was the miles? 241.9. 12.733. 19 miles per gallon. 19 miles per gallon and that's just with a half tank of treated fuel having gone through the truck. That is awesome. So a few days later and two tanks of gas later we did a little bit shorter test this time 120 miles but the fuel economy goes up. Starting out our 170-079.3. You can see it's 83 degrees outside today so it's a nice warm day very similar to the other days that we went out and did fuel economy tests. So let's see what happens. I'm gonna go to the trip odometer and zero that out. All right so we are doing one last fuel check. Running the fuel cap in the fuel all week and this is about the fourth tank of gas. We've got 19 miles per gallon on the first half tank that we ran through this. So we'll see what this one comes out to be. We're doing 100. If you guys decide to do a fuel test yourself like this we recommend that you do the baseline like we did and try to do it as much as possible under very controlled conditions. So a good steady speed you know a place where you can travel like we did you know at 60 miles an hour for a given distance and then do the same thing with the fuel cap in. And if you send us a video like this we will be happy to publish it and share it with others. 20 mile trek today so we're not going all the way to Minot. We're going to go to Stanley from Williston and we'll see where our miles per gallon work out of the fuel cap and treated fuel through the truck. It's pretty flat standing. All right so we're back here at the gas station. We went 120 miles so we'll see what this comes out to. Exactly 120 miles. Within a few tenths of 100. Hashtag the homework guy. Loves sure loves us don't they. Yeah we spent a lot of money there in a very short period. 6.15. Okay so the distance traveled was 119.6 miles. So Liz 119 divided by 6.15. 1588 miles per gallon went to 19.43 a 22 percent improvement and reduced the catalytic converter temperature by more than 200 degrees. Yeah that's great. So coming soon test results on a 2017 Ford F-150. A local contractor after I shared this with him agreed to let us use his truck to do a fuel test. So that's coming soon. By the way I did already make one run with this truck using just the eighth of a tank of fuel. The truck already showed a 12.5 percent improvement in fuel economy. So he's been running on it this week and we'll repeat the final test again and see what the comparison is here coming up. Yeah we are well aware of the fact that bias can sneak into a test like this. So that's why we took extra care in our test to show you what we did. We also know that a dyno test is the most reliable way to test fuel economy. It's what the manufacturers use. Although have you ever seen a new car live up to those lofty window sticker miles per gallon estimates? That's produced by a dyno. Not even close. Well we didn't have the thousands of dollars to do it the dyno way. So after consultation with knowledgeable friends we did it the way we did. I'd also like to share with our viewers that you guys are so lucky to have someone like Kevin watching out for you. To do the test that you just saw he had to pay for several hundred dollars of fuel out of his own pocket spending hours of his own time driving places he didn't need to go. All because when he puts his name and his word behind something he wants to get it right. He deeply cares about every one of you that's why the Homework Guide channel is so great. Well thanks for that Liz and if you guys enjoyed today's video we'd appreciate you giving us a great big thumbs up and please comment and share with family and friends. Yes. And if you're not already a subscriber with us please don't forget to subscribe to the channel. The entire Homework Guide team is here to represent you the car buyer and that's exactly what we strive to do in every video we produce. In closing I want to say this we made the decision to test and promote this product because we understood that anyone of average intelligence could see how a product like this can change lives. Yeah. 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Let's get started today with saving money on gas shall we? Thanks everyone for coming back. We'll see you on our next video. More fuel economy tests coming soon from great people all around the country. It's time to change the conversation at the dinner table from complaints about the devastating cost of gas and diesel to a conversation about how an American-made product is restoring the American dream and helping to defeat those high fuel prices. You guys rock. I'm Kevin Hunter the Homework Guy signing off with the amazing Elizabeth the Homework Gal. We gotta go. So where do you want to go this time?