Opinions on Slick50 and other similar oil additives? What do you guys like the best? I personally think Slick50 is the ****. My dad had a F-250 with a 460ci in it. His waterpump died on the way to are cabin, it was like maybe 70 degree out and he drove it the rest of the way there without a speck of problems, and that was probly another 50 miles ? It was far and low and behold his engine lived through it without any problems at all after that. Also my cousins lincoln , he had a similar problem , blew out a coolant line and drove it about another 10 miles home without any problems. This coincidental ? Or do oil additives really work, or well some of them. ? Also, jw is it safe to use Slick50 and other additives with synthetics ?

 

Additives are not needed. Just an excuse to waste your money.
Snake oil, IMO.

 

Listen to shoebox.

 

I for one do believe in Slick 50. Heres why.

This is gonna sound crazy but its true.

My wife has put slick 50 in her truck and she has beaten this truck for the past 205,000 miles. Her truck still runs great and still does not burn any oil.

That is not the crazy part...

My Father in law, a Great mechanic for 45 Years who also happens to be My closest friend, told he that he really likes Slick 50 and that he has 3 cars that he ran slick 50 in for the past 10 years and 2 of those cars have well over 250,000 Miles and dont burn a drop of oil.

Now here is the crazy part

One of those cars that he owns have over 875,000 Miles on it. I KID You NOT! This car still does not seem to burn any oil and he has driven it 5 times in the past 2 years from Ohio to New Jersey and back without burning any oil. He told me he pulled the valve cover from this motor once to see what the motor looked like when it had 750,000 miles on it and he was astonished not to find a drop of sludge.

Here is some stuf that is almost as crazy,

I took his advice and ran Slick 50 in my car too (every 40-50K). Well, when My Friend and I were pulling out my motor at 120K (the last 27K was with a blower on the stock motor), we both almost fell over backwards to see how good a shape my motor was in. It looked like it barely had 40K miles on it not the 120K it really had. To this day my friend, who goes by the name "MALDO" on this board, is telling folks how blown away he was to see how great a shape my motor was in with that many miles. As a matter of fact my motor looked it a LOT better shape than my friends motor and he had only ~50K on his but never used Slick 50. My friend told me he has pulled a few motor in his day with over 100K but he has never seen one look THAT Good.

Most folks will believe what they want to believe, and I do believe that there is a lot of stuff out there that are "snake oil" but I have personally seen results of this stuff and I am truely amazed by it.

Here is a little tip my father in law told me to do when installing Slick 50. He said after you do your oil change and add the bottle of Slick 50, let the car run for 1 hour so it cures/coats internally and then shut it off.

Again, I have seen the results for myself and I am still amazed by it and will continue to use it.

By the way, I always use dyno oil so I cant verify how great synthetic oil is on an engine.

My 2 cents

 

This is why I highly recommend against Slick 50 or any PTFE additive:

 

It's garbage and the FTC slapped them silly for it: http://neptune.spacebears.com/cars/legal/s50fdo.html

I'd put the snake oil $$ towards some good motor oil like Mobil 1 and a decent filter.

 

Lucas was used in all our trucks but oil pumps started blowing all the time. Its just to thick and puts way to much stress on the oil pump. I like Slick 50 way better than lucas. Lucas tranny oil is very nice for a weak tranny. Hell Im willing to spend 20 for some snake oil every 50k miles. Not using it on my new motor though.

 

95 Silver TA, you should do a commercial for them. Do they even still sell the stuff ?(I never even look at those things on the shelf). The FTC order speaks for itself and you can apply that to most of the other products sitting on the shelf.

 

Well, i've never used it in my camaro, but when we raced gokarts, we used a pure synthetic made by Cramac. It's a pure base stock with only additives, no petro base stock.

You change oil after every time hitting the track. Before the main race, we forgot to put oil in after draining. Turned that lil engine 9800 all race long and finished third. Not a scratch on the engine after 20 laps. Towards the end it heated up a little bit, but thats about it Best $40 a gallon oil i've ever used

I personally stay away from additives. I've seen too many engines crudded up by these miracle workers and have honestly never seen any gains at all.
I have used the Lucas stuff in an ailing suto trans about a year ago and it's still taking the drops from reverse to drive w/o hitting the brakes (dumb *** sister in law )

-Shannon

 

ahahahah
In all seriousness, I do believe in the stuff and everything I stated is true. My friend "MALDO" who helped me pull my stock motor out is now using this stuff. And they do continue to sell it at all the parts store.

I knew I was gonna get a lot of people saying that the stuff is crap but like I said, everyone can believe what they want to believe because I have seen the end result of using the product. I was always told never to use Slick 50 on a brand new motor to wait till its about 5-10K miles before adding it.

My 2 cents,
Claude

 

eek!

i feel so torn!

should i get it? should i not get it?

should they be awarded? should they be shut down?

stay tuned for scenes from the next episode..

 

750,000 thats crazy ... What kind of engine was it ? Also, the reason for not putting it in a new engine is because all the parts are still "seating" in to their normal wear levels so its pointless to use it untill the engine is worn in, or brokin in whatever you wanna call it. And I agree with you guys, alot of it is garbage and a waste of money, and the comment about how the particles can deprive flow at the oil journals, but really had anyone else on this board ever seen a engine, run without additives make it to over 875,000 ? I'd bet most havent seen one past 250,000 ... Also , Has anyone has anyone reported anything bad from Slick50 ? I no other additives get shot down on here alot, but never heard a complaint specifically to slick50

 

The engine that had 875,000 was a 3.8 liter motor V6 from GM

My motor was a 5.7 liter lt1.

My wifes truck has a 4.3 V6.


Claude

 

I know of another GM small sized truck like s10 that went or is still going at 750,000 miles. Just regular oil changes and maintence.

 

I cant believe that thing has that kind of milage on it, thats incredible. Also, thats pretty impressive wit the LT1 ... They're well made engines tho.