My dad seafoamed my car but no smoke?
I drive a 2000 Dodge Neon. My dad bought some seafoam and poured half of it into the oil crankcase and then the last half in my gas tank. My car was not running (I always thought you were supposed to run the car while you pour it?) and then we left it for about an hour while we went and got dinner before I came back home and cranked it up and drove it around the block of my neighborhood. There was no smoke. I have 150k miles on this car and I can't imagine it's clean.
Unfortunately, I just got an oil change last week and now my dad just poured this sh*t in there. Thanks dad.
Update:OOOOOKAYYY jesus you guys did not have to be ******* RUDE about it. Thumbs down on every answer that included rude *** stuck up comments. Yeah my car is a piece of **** but it RUNS and I'm a college student, and its the best I could afford. At least I have a car that gets me to where I need to go. ANd no I am not going to "thank" my dad for putting me $60 in the sh*tter. Cause now I have to go get another oil change god damnit.
Update 3:Oh and I never said I was "adroit at auto mechanics" how do you even get that from the question? I said I did research on this product, which included watching YouTube videos, and every car smoked/burned it out. ****** forgive me for making the assumption the same would occur when put in MY car. I don't have any "operational" issues with the car, either, at the moment since I have done a lot of fixes. So again eff you for assuming as such. I didn't ask to have random crap be dumped in my car by my dad. Who already broke somethings last time he did a "repair" job (and it cost me an assload to fix, too). So, ONCE AGAIN, excuse me for also not TRUSTING my father with the only car I have.
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The seafoam is diluted by the gas in the tank, so it's not going to smoke.
When you see the smoke plooms pouring out of the tail pipe it's from pouring it into the intake through a vacuum line.
As far as the seafoam in the oil goes, it's probably not a good idea to leave it too long as it can have a thinning effect on the oil and break down certain components.
The only time you will see smoke coming out of the exhaust is when you use seafoam directly into throttlebody or intake manifold. I sometimes take vacuum hose off the brake booster while engine is idling and pour seafoam into hose a little at a time till engine stalls. I wait about 10 minutes, crank engine and drive vehicle till smoke clears. I call it a douche for a vehicle. It helps clean carbon buildup on valves and pistons. As for pouring it in the engine it works great for sticky lifters. I normally pour about a 1/4 can into crankcase drive vehicle about 150 miles then change oil. Seafoam in fuel tank is a good fuel stabilizer, especially if you have a vehicle or piece of equipment you plan on leaving sit up for a long period of time. I left my 4x4 sit up for about 4 to 5 years put a new battery in it cranked it up. Its running fine right now. Didn't have to rebuild carburetor or anything. If I thought it would help me I would drink a shot of it or rub some behind my ears. I just kidding I wouldn't drink it, its poisonous it may kill you.
Thank you for making me laugh. And if you want to eff me too, then so be it.
I'm right there with you. If you keep up with the preventative maintenance on your car, then there should be no reason to "clean" out the engine. I don't and never have used any of that crap "mechanic in a bottle."
I don't understand why you would expect smoke out of the exhaust unless you have valves that are leaking or something like that.
Your dad used it right but again, I wouldn't have used it at all.
Any car is a good car as long as you take care of it.
The additive was administered to the car correctly. Sadly for you, a 2000 Dodge Neon is a colossal waste of materials, so anything done to it, is a vast, vast improvement.
If you're so adroit at auto mechanics why didn't you remedy its operational problems with wrench in hand, on your own?
If you did the research, you would have read that it only smokes when you put the Seafoam in the vacuum line. When it gets sucked into the intake, it cleans the valves, then it gets burned in the combustion chamber......... and SMOKE !
Seafoam is a cleaner and your father used it as he was supposed to. What is the issue about? You want it to smoke? It just cleans intake parts injecters etc.
your dads been around longer than you and knows a thing or two.hes tryin to help ya maintain the car with what we call preventive maintenance. you can do all the research ya want but if ya don't understand the internals of an engine you don't know as much as your dad.. id be sayin thanks dad for helpin me.
It's a DODGE , give it time it will smoke