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Slick 50
I posted this in another thread but didn't get a reply so going to try again.
Have you used Slick50 in your D3?
I put it in a mini I had in the 80's, put a hole in the gearbox and lost all her oil and drove i home 6 miles. Next day fixed hole with Plastic padding and filled her up with oil and she was grand. Done over 40,000 miles in her and sold her on a few years later.
I thought about putting Slick50 in the D3 but have not done it yet but would like to see if anyone else has.Dale
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Re: Slick 50
therealboss wrote:
I put it in a mini I had in the 80's.
And that's where we'll leave it 2014 D4 XS
2005 D3 SE - Gone
20th Jun 2014 9:22 pm
SkyBear
Member Since: 29 Mar 2014
Location: Weston-super-Mare
Posts: 277
I slick 50'd a volvo 7 series. Was in market harborough when I had to get home in the middle of the night for a family medical emergency back to Bristol. 20 miles into trip I had an oil light, looking underneath I had lost the sump plug, never did find out how. No other option but to carry on, figured I would make it to next town and try to find some other transport.
Did not hesitate at all so continued onto next town thinking getting closer all the time so good thing. In the end I had to stop on the motorway as the hundred mile an hour drive without oil had finally caused some of the insulation to stink from the front of the car.
Opened the bonnet and the headers where glowing bits of plastic where melting, figured *uck it and continued after pulling bits of melted crap off and leaving it on the hard shoulder. I continued all the way home like that to the hospital. A week later having replaced sump plug and filling with oil I was driving it again. Carried on for some time with seemingly no adverse effects, that is till a quarry lorry rammed me at traffic lights and totalled it.
Did it work, for me yes as no other way an engine could have survived that as far as I'm concerned.Black 05 V8SE
20th Jun 2014 11:51 pm
jim4244
Member Since: 05 Oct 2012
Location: UK
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I always use Slick 50 and have never had a problem.
21st Jun 2014 2:15 pm
J@mes
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Ok but what does it actually do for you?2014 D4 XS
2005 D3 SE - Gone
21st Jun 2014 4:35 pm
Landie71
Member Since: 23 Oct 2012
Location: Worksop, Nottinghamshire
Posts: 1019
Put in my Mk1 Fiesta (first car - happy days), engine went quieter as I poured it in & ran much smoother afterwards.
Tried it in the D3 about 3months ago - didn't have the same effect, but the D3 was already much quieter than my Mk1 Fezzy. Figured it can't do any harm though (was that fatal saying that )
21st Jun 2014 8:17 pm
chalky
Member Since: 22 Aug 2008
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 3145
jim4244 wrote:
I always use Slick 50 and have never had a problem.
I've never used used Slick 50 and I've not had a problem either ?
What kind of problems do I need to look out for if I'm going to continue to not use it ?Only dead fish go with the Flow !
21st Jun 2014 8:23 pm
pagoda
Member Since: 13 Aug 2009
Location: Not London Anymore (or the US for that matter)
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jim4244 wrote:
"I always use Slick 50 and have never had a problem."
Chalky wrote:
"I've never used used Slick 50 and I've not had a problem either ?
What kind of problems do I need to look out for if I'm going to continue to not use it ?"
Chalky, you have a big problem. If you don't use Slick 50, I'm afraid that you need to find a new way to spend hours of your time. You see, if you did use Slick 50, you'd have done the research yourself - taking hours - to figure out how simply adding what basically amounts to an oil containing PTFE, to an oil that supposedly doesn't protect the engine properly, can somehow reduce wear/prevent seizure in the event of a lost sump/famine/lunatics going to fight for ISIS, etc. You'd have spent ages reading testimonials, flitting between various websites all designed to encourage you to part with your money, and would have eventually convinced yourself that any additive (including most of the crap sold in Halfrauds that cleans your injectors, etc) is money well spent. You'd also have managed to convince yourself that scientists who have tried to convince people that PTFE in a liquid simply cannot possibly do what Slick 50 claims (which is (a) why they had their asses sued off them in the 90s for talking , and (b) why you can't turn a normal frying pan into a non-stick frying pan simply by adding a special solution, such as Slick 50 (although I'd no sooner add it to my cars than cook my bacon in it). PTFE doesn't and cannot work like that.
But because you have never used it, you won't have used up those hours. So, what to do? Take up knitting? Learn to shoot and move to Syria?
And then there's the problem of the money you haven't spent. How the hell are you going to deal with that?! Charity? Start and ISA, (different to ISIS; (sorry, it's a work thing))? Buy a bottle of what I'm drinking tonight?
I think that you have a real problem on your hands if you haven't used Slick 50. You have: time not wasted and money not wasted. So, to answer your question, I think that because you own a Discovery, you are pre-conditioned to wasting (a) time (you visit this site a lot), and (b) money (see above). Ergo, you should rush out an buy a quad copter with a built in Go Pro Black HD camera, as well as one of those watches that link to your iphone and tell you the number of the person calling you, how many emails you have, and everything except the time.
Right, off for another few cans of Doombar... PAGODA
21st Jun 2014 8:50 pm
chalky
Member Since: 22 Aug 2008
Location: Yorkshire
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Hmmmmm ! A fool and his money are easily parted
I have an allergic reaction to spending money, so I won't be buying any !
I doubt I'll be joining ISIS either, so if you are reading this from GCHQ, wrong tree Only dead fish go with the Flow !
21st Jun 2014 9:29 pm
Simes
Member Since: 10 Apr 2014
Location: Leics
Posts: 150
This interesting reading:
The Briggs and Stratton Company itself decided to run a scientific, experiment. Taking two brand-new, identical engines straight off their assembly line, they set them up for bench-testing. The only difference was that one had the special additive included with its oil and the other did not. Both were operated for 20 hours before being shut down and having the oil drained from them. Then both were started up again and allowed to run for another 20 straight hours. Neither engine seemed to have any problem performing this "minor miracle."
After the second 20-hour run, both engines were completely torn down and inspected by the company's engineers. What they found was that both engines suffered from scored crankpin bearings, but the engine treated with the additive also suffered from heavy cylinder bore damage that was not evident on the untreated engine.
This points out once again the inherent problem with particulate oil additives: They can cause oil starvation. This is particularly true in the area of piston rings, where there is a critical need for adequate oil flow. In practically all of the reports and studies on oil additives, and particularly those involving suspended solids like PTFE, this has been reported as a major area of engine damage.
This does work in frying pans, smoothing irons & other household things....for a time
to get PTFE to stick to meatl surfaces you have to have ultraclean surfaces
how can PTFE stick to anything oily ?
I just cant see ho this work & how it works chemically (covalent bonds & all that)
another set of the.....Kings Invisible ClothesBREXIT - done properly.
Right now ...We need Government - not Politics
Save the Dipstick Flagbearer-keep it simple, less likely to fail campaign-agenda items:Starting Handles, Acetylene Lamps.
Founder: Dipsticks-R-Us Inc
D3 HSE-perfectly formed, passenger friendly...has real DIPSTICK
Jag XK-but sadly no DIPSTICK...HUGE design fault
FL2 has DIPSTICK..."real comfort in rear seats"
VW Golf wondermobile (?)..has real DIPSTICK
Morris Minor..original DIPSTICK technology..and a real KEY.
23rd Jun 2014 2:31 pm
Simes
Member Since: 10 Apr 2014
Location: Leics
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You're dead right BLFarrar,
You need very clean metal, very high temps and very high pressures to make PTFE stick to the surface, and the temps and pressures are much higher than those found in an engine...
Snake oil salesmen have been around for centuries and I expect they will be around for millenia more. Despite people being able to find the truth easily now (thanks to T'Internet) they still prefer to believe in magic beans if the story from the seller flatters them (Lose weight and be more attactive), or scares them (Your engine will wear out and baby unicorns will die), enough.
23rd Jun 2014 2:36 pm
discovery3ski
Member Since: 25 Dec 2012
Location: leicester
Posts: 734
if it was suitable and beneficial for the engine the research and development arm of all car manufacturers would be testing and approving it for use.......good quality clean engine oil of the correct spec and perhaps a little thicker in summer on a worn engine along with regularly changed filters is all your engine needs. checking regularly is a must. its just snake oil.Discovery 3 tdv6 HSE 2007
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totally agree with what you have said...
I check my oil level once per week...
use the bestest oil I can afford
also do a between service change with filter
more difficult with the modern dipsticless vehicles we are now gettingBREXIT - done properly.
Right now ...We need Government - not Politics
Save the Dipstick Flagbearer-keep it simple, less likely to fail campaign-agenda items:Starting Handles, Acetylene Lamps.
Founder: Dipsticks-R-Us Inc
D3 HSE-perfectly formed, passenger friendly...has real DIPSTICK
Jag XK-but sadly no DIPSTICK...HUGE design fault
FL2 has DIPSTICK..."real comfort in rear seats"
VW Golf wondermobile (?)..has real DIPSTICK
Morris Minor..original DIPSTICK technology..and a real KEY.
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, and (b) why you can't turn a normal frying pan into a non-stick frying pan simply by adding a special solution, such as Slick 50 (although I'd no sooner add it to my cars than cook my bacon in it). PTFE doesn't and cannot work like that.
