MILLERS DIESEL POWER ECO MAX

[johnsco]

For years I’ve used Millers Diesel Power Eco Max …. Great product.

BUT

Recently Millers have been adding this weird black plastic thing to the dispenser bottle.

See red arrow on attached photo.

It seems to serve no useful purpose – Except to make it very difficult to add the product to my tank without it spilling all over the place.

It’s also impossible to remove it.

It would be great to go back to the original bottles without the black thingy.
Is it just me ???

 

[clk320x]

For years I’ve used Millers Diesel Power Eco Max …. Great product.

BUT

Recently Millers have been adding this weird black plastic thing to the dispenser bottle.

See red arrow on attached photo.

It seems to serve no useful purpose – Except to make it very difficult to add the product to my tank without it spilling all over the place.

It’s also impossible to remove it.

It would be great to go back to the original bottles without the black thingy.
Is it just me ???View attachment 160296

I just had a look back at old photos and the bottle I bought back in 2020 had the same? What issues are you having?

 

[geoffus]

How do you know it’s a great product?
Have you had problems that it’s cured ?

 

[markjay]

How do you know it’s a great product?
Have you had problems that it’s cured ?

I think that this was just his way of saying was that he wasn't complaining about the product itself, just about the (new?) packaging.

 

[ToeKnee]

My Mondeo has a weird filler neck that'll only open if you put in a fuel nozzle or a plastic "funnel" that they provide. I assume other makers have a similar system so maybe that plastic bit on the bottle is for those kind of fillers as (without the plastic funnel which is easily lost) you cannot put any products in the tank. Hope that makes sense.

 

[OneForTheRoad]

You simply pull that black part up. It acts as a funnel of sorts. Maybe for ford fuel filler necks ??

You'd be better off buying from hydra direct or eBay , 5 litre bottle. Though it to seems to getting expensive nowadays.

 

[DSM10000]

I just had a look back at old photos and the bottle I bought back in 2020 had the same? What issues are you having?

You keep photographs of your fuel additives?

 

[clk320x]

You keep photographs of your fuel additives?

I had a screenshot of an advert….

 

[DSM10000]

I had a screenshot of an advert….

It's OK, we all have hobbies

 

[clk320x]

It's OK, we all have hobbies

I’m not joking.

iPhone indexes all photos, so you literally can search one word and find any relevant images.

 

[DSM10000]

I’m not joking.

iPhone indexes all photos, so you literally can search one word and find any relevant images.

Is it just me that deletes unwanted images and emails regularly?

I have just checked, only 29 emails in the inbox over two accounts

 

[clk320x]

Is it just me that deletes unwanted images and emails regularly?

I have just checked, only 29 emails in the inbox over two accounts

I do need to be more organised with my photos & mail app, I have 70k photos on my phone at the moment going back to 2015 and 28k emails.

 

[DSM10000]

I do need to be more organised with my photos & mail app, I have 70k photos on my phone at the moment going back to 2015 and 28k emails.

All stored on "the cloud"?

 

[clk320x]

All stored on "the cloud"?

Yes the full res files on older photos are stored on the cloud.

 

[DSM10000]

Yes the full res files on older photos are stored on the cloud.

You do realise that your Cloud storage is killing Polar Bears?

 

[clk320x]

You do realise that your Cloud storage is killing Polar Bears?

 

[OneForTheRoad]

Can't half waffle .

 

[johnsco]

To return to the initial post ...
I asked Millers Oils and received the following reply from their Quality Department:

" ................... Good morning John
Thank you for your enquiry.
The diameter of our container neck is smaller than the diameter of the diesel pump nozzle and therefore will not open the security flap in diesel vehicles fitted with anti-theft fuel device. We have made provisions for this on our Diesel Power Ecomax 500ml multi shot bottle with the addition of the black twistable sleeve – in order to increase size of the neck to that of the pump nozzle. This sleeve was introduced pre 2010 ................ "

I guess my car does not have this security flap.
For some years, I've purchased the DP Eco-Max in 5 litre cans and topped up old-style dispensing bottles.
Now that I 'm no longer working, I do less mileage and have started to buy the 500ml multi-shot bottles - only to find that they are clumsy and prone to spillage when dosing my tank.
The great leap backwards !

As markjay says - I've no problems with the product - I've used it for 20 years +
It's the recent packaging that's the problem.

Thanks all for your thoughts.

 

[JHS]

I have never used any additive so forgive my ignorance, but what does this stuff do?

 

[Bellow]

I guess my car does not have this security flap.

Or - as per the petrol ones I've encountered - there's provision for a small flow rate of fluid with it still closed.