da shoe

is this stuff wroth getting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIe90...eature=related

the owner of youtube clip says

"wynnes engine cleaning...cleaning all the carbon and dirt from the engine. save more fuel and better fuel consumption. Highly recommand"

Joe Foe from Buffalo

I've used SeaFoam
http://www.seafoamsales.com/how-to-u...treatment.html
for years and can say first hand it works.

Itchytoe

I read through the how to FAQ and it seems as though the easiest way to do it would be to add about an ounce per gallon of fuel to the tank then let it slowly do it's thing. With an engine that has almost 100,000 miles on it, would one treatment work, or would you need multiple, consecutive treatments for it to get everything cleaned out?

JTso

iTrader: (2)

If you use good gas, change oil per maintenance schedule and perphaps add an oil catch can to the PCV system (reduce carbon deposit in the combustion chamber), you shouldn't ever need to use additives such as gas/oil treatment or seafoam.

SHYUperman

iTrader: (1)

I've used seafoam on my motorcycle and it's done wonders. I haven't used it on my TSX and I don't think I'm going to.

psteng19

Why not?

SHYUperman

iTrader: (1)

Haven't thought about it or the need to yet

teepo112

any pros and cons when doing this?

psteng19

Yeah, I only have 50k on my TSX and don't know if it needs to be done yet.
I've only done it on high mileage cars.

On my previous cars, I did it at 120k, 150k and 170k (I drove a lot of beaters).
I didn't want to risk anything.
I've put in gas additives before in and it's thrown CEL's - not seafoam, some other stuff but it was enough to scare me from doing it for no reason on a newer car.
This is the main reason I don't want to do it on the TSX yet.

sortudo7

Nothing really. The pros are it gets rid of that carbon buildup which should lead to better gas mileage, response, acceleration etc. Similar to hitting your drains with some Drain-o, clears it up well but you're not going to see anything huge of an improvement unless your car is really gunked up.

Cons, from what I hear, would only really be it doing it's job so well that it may remove gunk on an old tube/pipe leading to a leak that wasn't there before since the gunk sealed it. This should only happen on old car parts that are worn and should be replaced anyways. As long as you do it right you shouldn't have any real negative side effects, key idea is that you do it RIGHT.

So true. I used it on my mom's 00 Corolla with over 120K miles and it worked, nothing as severe as some videos but some smoke to come out the exhaust.

With proper maintenance your car should be fine. Her car did respond better and accelerate much easier after using it though so can't complain. Only 9 bucks at Wal-Mart too so not like you're spending a whole lot on it. I wouldn't do it on a car with anything less than 100K miles if you kept up with proper maintenance tbh.