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Old 23rd April 2019, 22:37   #31
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Hi Sir, where do you get Slick 50.these days. I used it regularly Donkeys years ago. Paul


Slick 50 can be bought in Halfords or on line comes as petrol or diesel synthetic or multi grade options. Also in 500ml bottles for engines under 2 litre and 750ml for engines over 2 litre.
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Old 23rd April 2019, 23:25   #32
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They sell it in Halfords
Is it the same as it used to be as there were all sorts of legal shanagons and law suits, have you used it recently ?
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Old 23rd April 2019, 23:33   #33
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Slick 50 can be bought in Halfords or on line comes as petrol or diesel synthetic or multi grade options. Also in 500ml bottles for engines under 2 litre and 750ml for engines over 2 litre.
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Hi Alan.
Is it the same as it used to be as there were all sorts of legal shanagons and law suits, have you used it recently ?
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Old 24th April 2019, 18:26   #34
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Hi Alan.

Is it the same as it used to be as there were all sorts of legal shanagons and law suits, have you used it recently ?

Thanks Paul


Both of our cars have always been treated to 750ml bottle of slick 50 every 45,000 miles. Before I retired in 2010 that was once every fourteen months. I personally have been using the stuff for close on fifty years in everything from my cooper S. a real one to our current pair of 75s, I have found it to do what it is meant to do.
My fill in car that I bought from a friend when my 600 was written off had been using it for 476,000 miles that was a petrol Nissan U11 estate, George a friend up North Has been using it for ever, his Austin gypsi has been using it since it was new.
I have never experienced any ill effects from slick 50. Don’t expect fantastic fuel savings you won’t get them. What the stuff does is coats every part of the engine that your oil comes in contact with, a very fine film of PTFE suspension. It does have one side effect that is that it helps the oil absorb combustion contaminants, ( it acts like a flocculant ) as oil filters are much the same as they were 50 years ago when they got changed every 5,000 miles. I would recommend an intermediate filter change when using it for the recommended service intervals in a modern engine. As the filter can clog with the extra contaminants the treated oil picks up. After all oil filters only have a given surface area and once that surface area has trapped contaminants the filter becomes full and will no longer filter.
Many people thought it was the oil treatment that was blocking the filter. While in fact it is the Ionic charge that attracts more combustion waste and so the filter can clog if not changed frequently.
Car manufacturers now expect oil filters to last three times as long as they were designed to. Ford now change brake discs and pads on the front of their cars with extended intervals, at every service as they have realised they won’t last till the second service. They are working on the average annual mileage saving them as the cars can have service intervals up to 20,000 miles or every year as the average car does less than 8,000 miles per year it will have been serviced twice before it needs a service on mileage. Many New cars today have filter change warning lights on them which I have noticed usually trip around the 6 to 8k, could this be the industry realising that oil filters won’t last 20k and still be filtering the oil. Who knows?
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Old 24th April 2019, 18:45   #35
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Hi Sir, where do you get Slick 50.these days. I used it regularly Donkeys years ago. Paul


A yes a non believer like myself, the V6 test convinced me. After I had done the boilers in the building I learned that all gas powered generating power stations use the same kind of thing on their gas lines.
Rubbish?
Or just someone who has not seen the thing work.
I mean strap the magnet on the emissions drop by as much as 50% take it off they go back up strap it back on and they go back down. Totally independent test carried out by people like yourself, nobody at the demo had anything to benefit. It was a case of this won’t work and we will prove it. Whoops it works ????
I have to confess to putting one of my friends Fiat through its mot in 1998 when he was laid up in hospital with a broken back. It failed on emissions, cut the magnet off my 600 and strapped it to the fuel line of the fiat drove it back down for a re test the garage could not believe it. Bit like yourself.


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Old 24th April 2019, 18:49   #36
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I service my diesels on a regular basis and run forte through the oil and fuel.
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Old 24th April 2019, 19:00   #37
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As does water!

There was a thread on here some years ago where non-believers posted a link to a statement by AA CEO Edmund King to the effect that there is no difference between premium and other fuels. I pointed out that the results EK posted actually showed Shell V-Power gave a 7% better MPG than supermarket brands.

Do a search and you will see the results of their controlled testing.


I remember we used to have an ICI filling station in the village in the 70s and their fuel was always a few pence cheaper per gallon.
But the car went about forty miles less on a tank full of this stuff than it did on Shell or Esso. Now all the fuel came out of the same refinery forty miles up the road, the only difference was the additives added by the tanker drivers who transported the stuff.
HOW?


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Old 24th April 2019, 19:33   #38
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When I change the oil I use ZX1 and occasionally in the fuel. I put Redex in every fuel up and 2.5ml of Comma 2 stroke oil. Every 6 months I will fill up the fuel tank and just add Carlube petrol injector cleaner. I also have a catalyst in the tank which improves the quality of the fuel. I have used this system in all of my Rovers and MG as recommended by an ex MG Rover tuning specialists and have found it to help the cars run cooler and more efficiently.
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