Slick 50 ?

[Whistle Pig]

I am not completly insane yet I have a bottle of this stuff on the shelf! Would you dare to put it in your car? TIA

 

[Bobtempest]

NO

 

[gnXfan]

Lots on this in the archives. Search on slick or additive.

FYI, I did put it in my car 20k ago - no effects noticed.

 

[Joe 1320]

I can share a funny story about this stuff. In my younger days, I had blown a head gasket in a little 4 banger. Water was being burned in the combustion chamber, not going into the pan. A buddy of mine at the auto parts store "gave" me 4 bottle of the stuff for an experiment. We drained the oil and replaced it with slick 50. I drove that car to and from work with a blown head gasket, 25 miles round trip on the interstate for a month.(speeds up to 80 mph) The temperature gauge never went above 2/3 of the way up, never into the red zone and the car drove great. It lasted me that way until I could get it fixed. Turns out the head even had a crack in it. The bottom line though was it did do something to limit friction which had an affect on limiting heat. Whether or not it would do anything for a good running car or something larger than a little 4 banger is still a topic for debate. I can still laugh about that because damn if it didn't get me by for awhile.

 

[Steve Wood]

It's garbage and more likely to plug up your lifters than any chance it will ever help anything.

Do a web search and see how they were fined for advertising claims that they could not substantiate.

 

[Whistle Pig]

thanks for the reply's too the trash dump it goes!

 

[tim87tr]

Use it in your pushmower or something cheap as an experiment .

 

[GNandGS]

Just to add a little something...

I wouldnt use it BUT most of the info you find is a little outdated. I dont see the potential gains overcoming the cost - especially since I dont think WE would gain anything measureable.

Would it hurt? Hard to say but I dont think so.

Yeppers, thats my article on gnttype....

Shawn