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The Mad Hat Man said:
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My you ****ed

Tbh I must say I've never used it but
I did do a head In A Mondeo once that had sat for a year and the cam felt really oily , which I was surprised when I was talking to the chap he said he regularly used slick 5o I do believe it coated the cam in Teflon or similar and I must say it seemed to work as it should of been dry ?
 
The trouble is we always hear of 'my mate runs this and swears by it. I wonder if it's any good' but it seems that nobody actually uses any of it.

Has anyone actually run this sort of stuff and had good results?
 
Dupont DO NOT RECCOMEND TEFLON IN ENGINE

Numerous class action law suits in America for additives

Buy a good quality oil and change before it is contaminated and past it's best
 
in the early days of my motoring (**** I feel old now) I ran a 2 1/4 petrol that was past its best.
slick 50'd it on an oil change.
year or so later when it started smoking and burning oil, stuck a bottle of smoke stop in it. cured it for a week or 2.
in the end I ran it for a week with the oil pressure light on due to worn bearings, and by the end of the week it was knocking and rattling, till it eventually wouldn't pull the motor, but still ran.
swapped the engine and ran it for another 2 years.
make your own mind up, I think the slick 50 helped, tho the engine was beyond repair anyway.

edit-
not used it since, and not had an issue with regular maintenance........
 
Slick50 spammed on here a year or two back and sent us a couple of samples. I put one in my 2.5Petrol Series, drover to Salisbury Plains and back - used 2 gallons of OIL!!!! - made no difference :eek:

The problem you have with all this stuff is the argument " If it was any good, the major manufacturers would be using it in their oils".
The only thing I would say - with regard to that thick gloopy STP stuff (Can yu still get it) was that it was brilliant for engine rebuilds, so that there was an oil fim on initial start up, so the bearings didnt run dry.

One other point - On engines that have hydraulic cam followers etc, I would have thought that the viscosity was critical to the correct operation. Changing the viscosity of the oil, might change all the gaps??
 
don't think slick 50 was ever advertised as stopping oil usage, but more of a "coating" on moving parts.
I used it for its advertised properties (snake oil or not, was young naïve and short of money), in the thought I could run the engine longer between top ups.
ultimately the engine was knackered, but who knows if it'd been earlier without it?
 
Put it this way if it was needed it would be in the service data !!

240 k out of my Peugeot partner , regular oil changes and mechanical sympathy
That's all that's needed !!!!

Waste your money if you like
 
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