Seafoam

Woody70 · Post by **Woody70** » 24 Oct 2008, 17:38

Help me out with this guys. I've seen a lot about Seafoam on the forum, even one 850 turbo owner that drove the product for 1500 miles. When I bought my '01 S80 T6 with 76k miles, I wanted to do all the things I'm pretty sure were never done to it. To a degree, I'm sure that's overkill. One of the things I've always done to a used car to try to clean the engine up a bit. Now, I can remove the oil filler cap on my engine and see the effects of conventional motor oil in a turbo motor, especially since it was probably serviced at the factory recommended intervals. It makes me sad (and somewhat nauseated) to see what's there. I'v heard, seen on product bottles, and believe in my own mind that it is not safe to use any kind of oil additive that is supposed to flush or clean on a turbocharged motor. Am I right or wrong? Is Seafoam an option, or should I just bite it and let good sythetic oil changes every 3k try to do the work?

Post by **vegasjetskier** » 24 Oct 2008, 18:24

I used Auto-Rx on my car with no ill effects so far (about 4,000 miles later): http://www.auto-rx.com

Post by **MadeInJapan** » 24 Oct 2008, 20:18

I agree with the AutoRx....use it as recommended without synthetic oil and after things have cleaned themselves up, switch to synthetic. In the meantime (while it's in your engine) try not to boost so much and allow the turbo to cool down before turning your ignition key off.

Woody70 · Post by **Woody70** » 25 Oct 2008, 14:03

Thank you, will look into it. Kinda pricey, but isn't it always? Guess its worth it if it does the job without damage.