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I have heard a lot of good things about the product. Folks at the Volvo forum swears by it. I've been a skeptic myself but not anymore. The stuff works. The car idles and accelerates better. Will purge my Volvo next time. I think my neighbors had enough smoke for the night.

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I have heard a lot of good things about the product. Folks at the Volvo forum swears by it. I've been a skeptic myself but not anymore. The stuff works. The car idles and accelerates better. Will purge my Volvo next time. I think my neighbors had enough smoke for the night.

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Mario Andretti

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So now that you have had a seafoam epiphany, what exactly did this miracle product do to smooth your idle, improve your acceleration and pollute the air with tons of smoke?

What exactly was the cause of your poor idle and acceleration to begin with? What (mysterious contaminants?) did this product purge?

If you have problems with gummed and varnished laden valves and injectors or clogged intake passages, your miracle-in-a-can can not be expected to act as a long term fix. Ever try just a squirt of carb cleaner into the intake? Marvel Mystery Oil? Rislone? Atomized water?

Do you suppose this penetrant/solvent would work on a new engine as well?

As far as Volvo adherents to the product, I bought a P1800 from a fella who added 1 cup of auto trans fluid to each tankful of fuel. He got it straight from the factory that this was good for the fuel injectors and all volvos. This was an early model with SU carbs! He was selling because the car smoked. Car stopped smoking after my first fill-up. I often wondered if the previous well intentioned owner also placed his brake pads and spark plugs under magnetic pyramids too.

This response is not a slight toward you, but since you went out of your way to extol the virtues of this product, please, if you can, provide some data to support your conclusion.

Thank you and more success this coming new year.

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So now that you have had a seafoam epiphany, what exactly did this miracle product do to smooth your idle, improve your acceleration and pollute the air with tons of smoke?

What exactly was the cause of your poor idle and acceleration to begin with? What (mysterious contaminants?) did this product purge?

If you have problems with gummed and varnished laden valves and injectors or clogged intake passages, your miracle-in-a-can can not be expected to act as a long term fix. Ever try just a squirt of carb cleaner into the intake? Marvel Mystery Oil? Rislone? Atomized water?

Do you suppose this penetrant/solvent would work on a new engine as well?

As far as Volvo adherents to the product, I bought a P1800 from a fella who added 1 cup of auto trans fluid to each tankful of fuel. He got it straight from the factory that this was good for the fuel injectors and all volvos. This was an early model with SU carbs! He was selling because the car smoked. Car stopped smoking after my first fill-up. I often wondered if the previous well intentioned owner also placed his brake pads and spark plugs under magnetic pyramids too.

This response is not a slight toward you, but since you went out of your way to extol the virtues of this product, please, if you can, provide some data to support your conclusion.

Thank you and more success this coming new year.

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No data except that the engine runs better in my opinion. I'm not here to convince anyone otherwise. It's your car, do what you want thank you. Oh yeah. The car ran and idle was fine fine....now it's even better...

Polluting the air???? that's stupid.

Dont want to pollute the air...then ride a bicycle

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No data except that the engine runs better in my opinion. I'm not here to convince anyone otherwise. It's your car, do what you want thank you. Oh yeah. The car ran and idle was fine fine....now it's even better...

Polluting the air???? that's stupid.

Dont want to pollute the air...then ride a bicycle

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Snake oil my friend. That's all it is.

The biggest thing is keep you car in nice tune and the RPM's up. The M10 will love you for it!

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Snake oil my friend. That's all it is.

The biggest thing is keep you car in nice tune and the RPM's up. The M10 will love you for it!

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If you run a bunch of any strong solvent thru the intake, there's no doubt something might be cleaned up. I doubt there's anything special about seafoam, other than its just a strong solvent. Perhaps paint thinner would do the same thing, but who's gonna be brave enough to go dumping paint thinner in their engine? Seafoam is already on the shelf and likely doesn't do any damage to a car.

Yes, I've tried seafoam on my 02. Just cuz I felt like it, and its only a few bucks so you might as well give it a shot. I didn't notice any wonderful benefit, but I'd had the head off my car within the past year or so and manually cleaned everything myself with a dremel. There probably wasn't much carbon build-up. I also run my engine very hard, and thats probably kept it clean.

But in an engine that has a lot of light duty miles, I bet there's some carbon build-up that can't help. My grandpa's cutlass ciera rarely sees over 30mph, and has been daily driven short distances for many years. It runs like crap, despite having only ~80K miles. It's likely full of carbon and crap, and we might have to give seafoam a try. It might also help it to just take it out and run the crap out of it for a while to get the gunk blown out.

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If you run a bunch of any strong solvent thru the intake, there's no doubt something might be cleaned up. I doubt there's anything special about seafoam, other than its just a strong solvent. Perhaps paint thinner would do the same thing, but who's gonna be brave enough to go dumping paint thinner in their engine? Seafoam is already on the shelf and likely doesn't do any damage to a car.

Yes, I've tried seafoam on my 02. Just cuz I felt like it, and its only a few bucks so you might as well give it a shot. I didn't notice any wonderful benefit, but I'd had the head off my car within the past year or so and manually cleaned everything myself with a dremel. There probably wasn't much carbon build-up. I also run my engine very hard, and thats probably kept it clean.

But in an engine that has a lot of light duty miles, I bet there's some carbon build-up that can't help. My grandpa's cutlass ciera rarely sees over 30mph, and has been daily driven short distances for many years. It runs like crap, despite having only ~80K miles. It's likely full of carbon and crap, and we might have to give seafoam a try. It might also help it to just take it out and run the crap out of it for a while to get the gunk blown out.

Bring a Welder

1974 2002, 1965 Datsun L320 truck, 1981 Yamaha XS400, 1983 Yamaha RX50, 1992 Miata Miata drivetrain waiting on a Locost frame, 1999 Toyota Land Cruiser

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Polluting the air???? that's stupid. Don't want to pollute the air...then ride a bicycle

Didn't you state you think your neighbors had enough smoke for the night? Unburnt hydrocarbons contribute to smog. Your smoke constitutes unburnt or incompletely consumed hydrocarbons. In either case its pollution.

I won't preach about whether pollution controls are effective and I fully comprehend that all internal combustion engines pollute to one degree or another. Suffice it to say that a well tuned engine should pollute less than a poorly tuned engine. Likewise, if I see a car other than a true relic that puts forth a plume of blue smoke, I know better than dismiss it as harmless pollution. To the extent you inferentially go out of your way to pollute, does not make you a candidate for citizen of the year.

Given the sincerity of your other posts, I hope you were joking. :)

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Polluting the air???? that's stupid. Don't want to pollute the air...then ride a bicycle

Didn't you state you think your neighbors had enough smoke for the night? Unburnt hydrocarbons contribute to smog. Your smoke constitutes unburnt or incompletely consumed hydrocarbons. In either case its pollution.

I won't preach about whether pollution controls are effective and I fully comprehend that all internal combustion engines pollute to one degree or another. Suffice it to say that a well tuned engine should pollute less than a poorly tuned engine. Likewise, if I see a car other than a true relic that puts forth a plume of blue smoke, I know better than dismiss it as harmless pollution. To the extent you inferentially go out of your way to pollute, does not make you a candidate for citizen of the year.

Given the sincerity of your other posts, I hope you were joking. :)

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Why is it whenever someone wants to be an ass they just post from some random name. Own up to the fact that you're being an ass. Grow a damned sack. It's the frigging internet and you have to hide behind a pseudonym to protect your real pseudonym. Cowardice...

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Why is it whenever someone wants to be an ass they just post from some random name. Own up to the fact that you're being an ass. Grow a damned sack. It's the frigging internet and you have to hide behind a pseudonym to protect your real pseudonym. Cowardice...

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