Has anyone heard of or used a gasoline additive named Sea Foam? If you have heard anything about it please share. If you have used it before please share that info as well. TIA!

 

Heard of it from friends that use it in their jet skis. Never used it myself. I use Techron.

 

Techron is the only gasoline additive recommended by GM.

 

No need to use it on a newer vehicle......Most of the time people will use it on higher mileage vehicles and have heard positive results.

 

So as long as you use Techron regulary say every 6k miles or so is it worth paying 100 bucks from the dealer to have the Fuel Injection cleaned or is this a waste of money?

 

Techron actually does a very good job at preventing and cleaning injector and engine deposits, Techron is not as strong a cure as the fuel injection cleaning done at the dealership, but if Techron is added in higher concentrates it can do nearly as good a job on neglected engines.
Think of Techron as Aspirin and the dealer Fuel Injection Cleaning as Open Heart-Surgery, if you take aspirin religiously you may be able to avoid having an open-heart. [/b]

 

Are you talking about the Sea Foam that you put in your intake to clean out your engine? Because that stuff produces a white smoke that comes out of your exhaust for quite some time.

 

Sea foam, according to the information on the can, is, added to the fuel tank,a gasoline additive that cleans the throttle body and injectors, andalso, when added to the oil, an oil additive that cleans carbon and other deposits from the lifters and other internal engine parts. I have used it as an oil additive before and it did quet a sticking lifter and smooth out the engine.

 

Good to go, Thanks ZX.

 

ZX can you elaborate on what exactly you mean by higher concentrates, I don't want to overdue it in a tank. Are saying 2-3 bottles in a full tank to get a "good cleaning"? On say a vehicle with 100K on it that has never been done. I have a 03 TB w/ 106K that I use fuel cleaner every once in a while in it and never had the FI cleaned by the dealer but it runs and idles great.
Also I have an 07 Tahoe w/ 34k and I use Techron Fuel pretty regulary and Cleaner a couple of times again it runs like a champ.

Thanks