Anyone hear of XP3 Fuel Additive ?

Rlopez250

It's working for me. I went from 16.8 mpg around town to 21.5 and 22 on the hwy to 25.8. That was after 3 tanks. My business partner had good results also. Research on XP labs showed last year sales of over 3 billion so somebody is using it.

rgooch1969: Research on XP labs showed last year sales of over 3 billion so somebody is using it.
Care to cite your reference?

rgooch1969: Research on XP labs showed last year sales of over 3 billion so somebody is using it.
TJamMoneyMan: Care to cite your reference?
Guess not!

Just returned from a trip to Washington DC driving a 2005 Chrysler Town & Country. My wife had purchased a bottle of XP3 for the trip. Total mileage driven was 3,100 miles. Over the past 2 years the vehicle has averaged 20.5 miles per gallon (car computer). The first tank saw the average mileage rise to 25.3 average miles per gallon. The trip out to Washington DC was 24.8. the return trip (travelling westbound with some wind) averaged 24. 5 miles per gallon. We were very happy with the results. Factoring in the cost of the product, we saved an estimated net $66 on the trip.

I did not notice any change in power or roughness in how the car ran, but these are subjective issues.

I will now try it on a Infiniti 2006 M35X in city & highway driving. My question is, what are the long term effects of using this type of additive?

Hello, we just bought a few bottles to try out and they seem to work. I'm also a skeptic by nature, which is why I ended up in this forum. It's also a reason why I have to test it out myself.

Is it possible to get other name brands spelled out here so I can test and compare with another car? Someone says Walmart sells one for under $3.

I would love to save gas and money at the same time, so if a cheaper product is out there that can do the same thing, I am all for it.

I've been using XP3 in TWO engines as of to date. I have to admit that I was very VERY positive about the product in the beginning, and the results were, as you say, "favorable", on my SUV, but not my Honda Accord. I saw NO DIFFERENCE in the HONDA. The company kept telling me to use the product, and your MPG will "BREAK LOOSE". 9 months later... Nothing so far. Although, I do hear a cleaning running engine, and I do believe it has seriously cleaned my fuel system, and lowered my carbon emmissions. I have a generator that I ran during my last hurricane, and WOW the Emmissions were seriously reduced. So... we know we are getting a cleaner burn.

Let me talk about my SUV. In all honesty the SUV seemed to be doing great in the winter months in comparison with summer months, and I have come to realize the difference... the A/C is not used, and the car doesn't run with the A/C on. So... by all means, I get a Higher MPG.

Now... I have spoken to the company many times about this, and all of the reps say the same thing. "We have people getting a 20% Increase in their mileage"

Here's the Bottom Line with the product, and my personal testing. I have sold about 30 bottles. I have had ONE REORDER (That was my sister, and she stopped because she said she THOUGHT she was seeing a difference, but didn't see one).

I am using the product because it burns my fuel much cleaner, and I like the fact that I KNOW it's doing good in my engines!

Do I save money? Well... I think in the long run it will save me some money on Maintenance, few oil changes, takes water out of the gas, better fuel burn, cleans injectors.

Do I get higher MPG as in their testimonial claims? NOPE.

I will keep using the product, I did buy into their larger package, and really used it. I have enough product to last me atleast another year or maybe even two.

My recommendation is a NO on the product unless you can afford to keep using you. The product IS beneficial to your engine, but does NOT do anything to increase your MPG.

Interesting,

As to some of your results, here is the truth, the winter driving can no way be compared to the summer with A/C use. The fact is, in cold weather starts which adjust for richer fuel mix, this will far exceed any A/C reduction in economy. The A/C compresors of today draw very little reduction in economy verses driving with windows open which creates drag, so it is a wash in all the testing I have done and researched over the years.

Here is the real test for you, stop using it for a few tanks and see if you have more consumption. Given most do not use a scanguage computer to exactly track MPG results, nor is anyone driving exactly the same day to day, even if you drive same route at same speed, it is near impossible to track results accurately, so I would bet you won't see any change in economy when you stop using product for a few weeks. The point is, IF you have a dirty fuel system or excess carbon build up on valves, heads and piston tops, once removed, the only increases you will see is from this removal of carbon, not from the fuel treatment itself, so save some money and stop using it for several months to see the truth.

Success to all,

I have read the above posts and not surprised there are skeptics and believers in the product.

I recently purchased my first bottle of Xp3 from a friend who is distributing it. Since using it I've seen about a 25% increase in mpg. I recently bought a 1991 Oldsmobile Intrigue and kept gas receipts and was getting less than 300 miles per 15 gallons. After using Xp3 I compared receipts and have been getting almost 400 gallons per 15 gallons. I went from approximately 20 mpg to 28/29 mpg.

This is actual data from experience. I do not sell the product so I have nothing to gain from sharing my experience.

I'm not a scientist and have not done the tests as shown in the video, though it makes sense to me that Xp3 disperses water in your fuel, thus burning cleaner and more efficiently.

My question to the skeptics is... Have you tried it? Once you have, then you can speak from experience...

I don't know much about XP3 except that the mix ratio is higher than XFT. I have been selling XFT to businesses and consumers for the past three years and have companies getting from 8% to 13% improvement in fuel economy. I have personally done many test on vehicles and even rented vehicles in my travels and within 3000 -4000 miles had a 16% increase in MPG on a 2011 Ford Fusion w/ 10,000 miles on it. One difference between XP3 and Xtreme Fuel Treatment is the mix ratio. Xtreme Fuel Treatment mixes at 1/4 oz to 20 gallons.
If you would like to learn more about XFT here are two places to go to see info. YouTube, XFTChallenge: Facebook: XFT Saves .

I have done extensive on-the-road tests of XP3.

My findings show mileage increases of approximately 1%, which is probably within the range of statistical variation. In otherwords, XP3 has no significant effect on mileage. In any case, the COST of XP3 would not be recovered in fuel expense savings. If you have really messed up injectors, this stuff might clean them up a bit, but if your car engine is in good shape, there is NO ADVANTAGE to using XP3.

The only way to prove increased mileage is with a test done on a closed course with no variables other than additive vs. no additive. I am suprised by people claiming an increase when different fill-ups could have many different variables in the "test" vehicle (ie: traffic, number of stops, idle time, number of starts, how many "jack-rabbit" starts, load in vehicle, outdoor temp, humidity levels, etc.)

Recommend using Google street view to look at their "testing lab" in San Diego.

Note that all the positive result posts are from Minnesota.

Suggest searching for the business owners, then doing a Google search on their names and reach your own conclusion concerning if you want to do business with this company.
Note that a careful reading of the MSDS sheet for this product allows for a certain level of ingestion (that means you can drink the stuff folks)
I could go on...but I hope you get the point...

Exactly,

Good points, to date, there has been not one independent lab report, just a few personal guestimates, so don't waste your money until you see a real authentic EPA Lab Report. If you suspect dirty injectors or carbon build up in cylinder heads and valves, then purchase one of a dozen over the counter fuel sytem treatments like Restore, which I have used, or STP, name brands, and you will see same results.

Success to all,

I signed up to this forum after doing a quick Google search on this XP3 stuff. A friend of mine is selling it, and I had to make a 6 mile jaunt to get his Jeep started this afternoon, so he gave me a 16 oz bottle of this stuff which supposedly treats 400 gallons. I figure since it was of minimal cost to me, I'm willing to try it.

I do not believe in additives in anything. Royal purple this, marvel mystery oil that, blah blah blah. I use none of them. I've witnessed fuel system cleaners being successful in the past and with a clean fuel system it *can* make a significant improvement in mileage--probably via a better spray pattern of the fuel injectors or something like that. But beyond that, they are all useless. I use almost exclusively dinosaur oils and cheap oil filters. I drive about 23,000 miles a year. I do this and put tons of miles on my engines and they all run good and never wear out. Its about maintaining a car that makes it last.

I do automotive service for some extra $$$$ on the side, so I have changed a fair number of fuel pumps over the years. All these people who talk about older cars having rust and corrosion in the tanks and running it low on gas and sucking up debris have obviously never seen the insides of modern day automotive fuel tanks. They are clean inside. Spic and span. Not to say that some are not because fuel filters can clog, and there are idiots out there who find a way to get dirt and other debris in their gas tanks. But if that happens, you have other issues with the pump itself. I saw one Pontiac Fiero that has massive rust in the tank. The car sat for years and it looks like someone filled it with something other than gasoline. Even with ethanol, I never see any such corrosion in fuel systems. I don't know what everyone is talking about. The vast majority of 20 year old car fuel tanks are still showroom clean inside.
Like what everyone mentioned, how about we see some 3rd party results? If it does work so well, why doesn't some oil giant buy them out and then they can clearly advertise that their fuel gets substantially better mileage than everyone else's?

My testing will be on a 1993 Geo Metro with a 3 cylinder engine and 5spd manual trans. It is my beater and the car looks like hell. It recently rolled over 208,000 miles. It is my "i don't care what happens to it" car. It runs good and has been averaging about 50 MPG since memorial day. In the winter months, as with all cars for whatever reason, drops to the mid 40 mpg range. So, if they advertise an 8% increase in mileage, 8% of 50 is a lot more than 8% of 10. I should start averaging 54 mpg with it, if it works.

The other car in the testing will be a 1992 Chrysler Lebaron GTC convertible with a 2.5L turbo and 5spd transmission. This probably won't be a good test subject since the odometer's accuracy isn't stellar and the car doesn't get driven regularly enough. Fuel economy is around 28-29 mpg. I should get an extra 2 mpg with it assuming an 8% increase.

Since I have plenty to go around, I'll probably dump some in my 1998 Jeep Cherokee XJ as well. It has 212k miles and the 4.0 engine and automatic AW-4 transmission. This will be an even worse test subject since I use it to haul trailers and tow the occasional dead car to my shop. It also does not get driven regularly.

My cars all run good and don't have dirty fuel systems. Also, all these people who post about how good it works are "new users" on the forum. Suspicious? They have to log on and defend themselves for free. I'll give my information to anyone who asks of it. I started this thread on TeamSwift regarding my Geo Metro: http://www.teamswift.net/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=42832 Here, you can follow much of the car's story and maintenance history.

Will this XP3 stuff make my engines run better? I don't see how. They run good enough the way they are and it is as close to perfect as you can get.

Unfortunatly most online opportunities seem a waste of time these days.
People promise fortunes without having any results to back it up themselves.

Invest in a solid foundation of your business; offer real products that people want & use, not scheme them into buying stuff that won't get them anywhere and lead into an unhappy consumer.

Cheers,
Aron

My testing has become a bit inconsistent simply because of my lack of effort to make SURE it gets added to a tankful. There were many tankfulls that didn't receive any treatment so i never got a really consistent supply of treated fuel to the engine. However, there has been one consistency--it hasn't changed a darn thing. The Geo Metro is still getting its usual 48-52 mpg. These are numbers that are consistent with what I got before I ever heard of the XP3 additive. The amount that you add to a 10 gallon tank that the geo has (about 8 gallons get put in at the station) you have to add such a small amount that I swear that it is barely enough to wet down the fuel neck as it flows into the tank. A person would have to pour the additive in before fueling in order to wash all of it into the tank. Most of the discrepancies between the 48-52 mpg figures may have easily come from not getting the same amount of fuel in the tank with each fill-up.

I did some calculations just to see what it costs to use. If it took a car from 20 mpg to 25 mpg, it saves about $.03 per mile, and that is factoring in the additional $50 cost of the additive. This would be the same as a 25% increase in mileage. In 10,000 miles, it would save you $300.

I think they boasted 8%? Lets figure a more generous 12.5% increase. That would be $.015 per mile that it saves you, which is $150 in 10,000 miles.

If it did gain their claimed 8% increase in mileage, 8% of 50 mpg is 4 mpg. Somewhere in here I should've got close to 54 mpg.

The engine runs no different with the additive or without.

It also made no difference in my Lebaron.

The Jeep experiences too many varying conditions to be able to get any kind of test results out of it.

If this stuff really did yield better emissions, smoother running engines, better mileage and had proof to back it up, you can rest assured that some big oil company would buy out XP3 for a very nice chunk of change and dump their product into the fuel they sell. If 400 gallons of treatment sells for $50, the cost to manufacture it has to be about $25 which would increase the cost of each gallon of gas by only $.06 per gallon. Governments and environmentalists would be backing it up and half of the world's problems would be solved.

Does it work? My data says "no."