Has anyone used SeaFoam on their cars???

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alnih12

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I've been using this stuff in my cars since my first car. I heard about it from a friend of mine, he refered this stuff to me and i always use it for every car that i buy. Anyways if you get a can and use a vaccum line that leads to your intake plenum. Suck it all in there or maybe half of it, you can use the remainder in your gas tank or your crankcase. It will clean your fuel filters, injectors and fuel lines, or in the crankcase free up lifters, cams, just clean up all of that carbon buildup inside the engine. As the car sucks up the liquid and you put a desired amount in you shut off the car. Let it sit in there for a couple of minutes, then start up the car. Now your car might hesitate and try to stall so you are goin to have to rev it up a little bit. Don't freak out because you'll notice that your car is smoking alot, depending on how dirty your car is will affect how much smoke gets out. My old maxima smoked just poured out, you can just drive it off. The smoke will end in about five minutes or so. Afterwards, you'll notice better response in your car. It always has worked for me and my cars always run better in result of using seafoam. I was just wondering if anyone else has heard about Seafoam and have they used it?
 
I've never had a need to use it..on any car. What's it supposed to do again? Who knew my lifters were sticking? Wouldnt I know it if my fuel lines were clogged? Can fuel filters be cleaned? Or shoud they simply be replaced regularly?

WTF is this seafoam mess again, and why do I NEED it all of a sudden?
 
I've noticed a LOT of guys do a LOT of unnecessary stuff to their engines.
 
Have you guys heard/used of Auto-Rx???

Interesting stuff.. But haven't had the time to try it out.
 
Yeah yeah you make fun of me i don't really care. I was just asking a simple question has anyone used it. I was simply refered to it from a friend a few years back and ive tried it myself. It did something and i can certainly say that it helped my 300zx pass inspection. I used the seafoam and some rxp and i passed it the second time. The first time i failed for too much carbon and nox gas. Im not telling anyone to use this stuff. I just put a little im my LS and this was the only car i had that didn't burn out alot of carbon. So i suppose my this engine is one of the cleaner engines ive had in a car. Anyways i never noticed anything negative in results of using it so where's the harm.
 
lots of peeps swear by it, I am going to get some for my sable thats been sitting w/ a start up here and there for awhile.
 
Seafoam works great at removing the carbon buildup from the intake manifold. Thats about all I use it for though. Ive put it in the gas tank and didn't notice any difference.
 
I've not used it in an automobile, but I did use it just the other day in my one year old 36" walk behind lawn mower. All I can say is WOW! The stuff works great! I had left last years gas in the tank and when I went to use the mower a few weeks ago, it wouldn't hardly run. Bad move....don't leave old gas in gas tank without fuel additive. Anyway, I emptied the tank and put fresh gas in with an additive and that didn't fix it either. Went to the local fix it shop expecting to pay for a carb rebuild and the mechanic suggested I use the Seafoam first. He knew what he was talking about, that's for sure. Again, can't comment on car, but after this, I don't think I'd be afraid to use it.
 
I've been using it for about 5 years now. I put as much of it as I can in the gas tank. You can't get it all in there without using a funnel because of the can's design. I put whatever is left in the can on a vacuum line and let it suck the rest into the car. I run a can through my cars about once a year.
 
It might remove SOME of the carbon from the intake manifold, but it certainly won't make them clean. I say that having just recently taken apart my manifold and spending a ridiculous amount of time cleaning the intake manifold and butterfly valves, despite regular use of SeaFoam.

I've personally never noticed any difference after using SeaFoam. I just get a kick out of filling my neighbors yard full of stinky smoke.:p

As for the Auto-RX. It seems like good stuff, I think it did work well. The guy who created the stuff told me that he owned a Mark VIII too. I used it in my little Toyota with 150k miles. I didn't do a before check, but when I removed the valve covers, everything looked pretty clean. And I know that the first 120k miles, that little car was ridiculous neglected.
 
TheRebel said:
I run a can through my cars about once a year.
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Why? And I thought almost all experts agree that aftermarket fuel additives do no good, and in fact, can often de-stabilize the carefully selected additive package that comes in major gasoline brands?
 
lseguy said:
Why? And I thought almost all experts agree that aftermarket fuel additives do no good, and in fact, can often de-stabilize the carefully selected additive package that comes in major gasoline brands?
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So, your saying that by using it once a year to clean out what ever,
"de-stabilizes" the hundreds of times he gets gas in between?
 
last time I checked this was not a fuel addictive, it cleans
 
last time I checked this was not a fuel addictive, it cleans
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You have to add it to the fuel before it becomes a fuel system cleaner don't you? So wouldn't that make it an additive? :p

And no it doesnt remove ALL the carbon, I never said it did. But it does disolve a good amount of it.
 
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