Slick 50

[golfing69 0]

Hi Guys,anybody used slick 50 oil additive ,does it do what it says or is it garbage,regards neil

Edited February 26, 2015 by golfing69

[Batfink 201]

its famous for being snake oil

[golfing69 0]

Not sure what that means,will it be good for a 106,000 mile engine thats puffing out a little bit of blue smoke,ta

[RichF 1 2 Cars]

Means it doesn't do what it claims:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

 

Slick 50 has been discussed a few times over the years, for example:

 

http://forum.205gtidrivers.com/index.php?showtopic=107529

Edited February 26, 2015 by RichF

[golfing69 0]

Cheers RichF,thats £16.00 ive wasted,my son has a snake,will pass it onto him,lol

[RichF 1 2 Cars]

Burning a bit of oil might just be worn valve stem oil seals, which wouldn't be too hard/expensive to put right.

Edited February 26, 2015 by RichF

[golfing69 0]

Yo RichF,slick was around when i started driving in the mid seventies(had a mk1 mexico then) and it got good reviews,you would have thought 40 years on they would have gone bust or improved it,regards neil.yeah your right about the valve stems,im not very confident about taking the head off and having a go

Edited February 26, 2015 by golfing69

[welshpug 1,657]

plenty of gullible muricans keeping them afloat

[dobboy 231 2 Cars]

It used to come with a cool sticker back in the day, it was the only reason most people bought it.

[Slo 283 1 Cars]

Very true that, these days on ebay its a free gift with whatever you buy, the chinese have this down to a fine art.

 

Its called a gimmick. Snake oil indeed

[2-Pugs 57]

Ametech engine restorer is another can of snake oil to steer clear of. Ecotek valves and 'uprated' fuel pressure regulators fall into the same category too.

[cheesegrater 43 1 Cars]

I use fuel pipe magnets. Reckon they give me atleast 10hp of torque.

[2-Pugs 57]

^^ lol I remember those! They polarise the fuel or something don't they.......

[dobboy 231 2 Cars]

Dunno about fuel magnets, but i got a magnetic filter fitted to my dads central heating return pipe, for the first few weeks it was gathering lots of nasties from his old rads and pipework and stopping them going through his new boiler. Great simple invention!

[aldworth33 45 1 Cars]

A company I used to work for/with got duped into them magnets on a scania v8 truck of theirs, dont think they were cheap either. But the old boy in charge was losing his marbles tbh company got bought out and I think the magnets are still "doing there job" on the beast

[lagonda 42]

You could try Redex Oil Treatment; I used it in my V12 and it really did save me many gallons of oil. Don't confuse it with the petrol treatment (which is what everyone thinks of with Redex), the oil treatment comes in tins and is really thick, gloopy stuff. When your oil consumption is around 100 miles per gallon, which it was, this stuff really helped...before the Redex, I reckon the car was more expensive to run on oil than petrol, even though it was only returning around 3 to 4mpg at that time.