Slick 50 - good product or snake oil?
Discussion
I fully realise this may well be a large can of worms but I'll try anyway...
I recently started a large thread regarding the fact that I loved my 'shed car' (1997 Polo 1.6), but ever since I got the Polo it has had a little bit of a noisy engine. Slightly 'tappety' and clattery.
It's never worried me, and it runs perfectly but it did irritate me slightly when I would be in town and open a window for some fresh air to be greeted by the constant 'tap, tap, tap' from my engine.
A friend who has owned more cars than anyone can remember recommended I stick Slick 50 in it... he totally swears by it and has put it in everything from diesel polo's to big power Skyline GTR V spec's over the years.
He tends to run shed cars as well as Skylines/Range rovers and says it works wonders in something with high miles that you don't plan on looking after, you just want it to run quietly and smoothly.
So I bought the 500ml bottle of it and poured it into the Polo.
Didn't notice much difference at first but after I had used the car for a couple of hours on a longer run, the tapping and clattering in the engine had considerably reduced to almost nothing. I was quite frankly amazed.
I'm usually the biggest skeptic over this kind of thing, but I can honestly say it quietened the Polo down, my Slick 50 loving mate bought a 16v Corrado for his girlfriend with high miles on (well over 100k) and the same happened.
I still don't actually fancy putting it in any of my 'good cars' though!...
Thoughts people??
I recently started a large thread regarding the fact that I loved my 'shed car' (1997 Polo 1.6), but ever since I got the Polo it has had a little bit of a noisy engine. Slightly 'tappety' and clattery.
It's never worried me, and it runs perfectly but it did irritate me slightly when I would be in town and open a window for some fresh air to be greeted by the constant 'tap, tap, tap' from my engine.
A friend who has owned more cars than anyone can remember recommended I stick Slick 50 in it... he totally swears by it and has put it in everything from diesel polo's to big power Skyline GTR V spec's over the years.
He tends to run shed cars as well as Skylines/Range rovers and says it works wonders in something with high miles that you don't plan on looking after, you just want it to run quietly and smoothly.
So I bought the 500ml bottle of it and poured it into the Polo.
Didn't notice much difference at first but after I had used the car for a couple of hours on a longer run, the tapping and clattering in the engine had considerably reduced to almost nothing. I was quite frankly amazed.
I'm usually the biggest skeptic over this kind of thing, but I can honestly say it quietened the Polo down, my Slick 50 loving mate bought a 16v Corrado for his girlfriend with high miles on (well over 100k) and the same happened.
I still don't actually fancy putting it in any of my 'good cars' though!...
Thoughts people??
Edited by NinjaPower on Thursday 18th February 15:14
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