# Sugar in car fuel tank

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-in-car-fuel-tank/545912>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [July 7, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-in-car-fuel-tank/545912 "2010-07-07T23:57:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![ccordner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@ccordner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccordner)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-in-car-fuel-tank/545912/1 "2010-07-07T23:57:16Z")

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Having read the post on sugar in the fuel tank wrecking a car’s engine, perhaps worth mentioning the Mythbusters episode, ‘Car Capers’ in which they tried this.

Whilst I am sure there may be long term effects, the engine ran much better than it did without the sugar!

Food for thought?

Chris