I poured 1/3 of the bottle down the TB with the car idling, turned it off for 5 minutes, turned it back on and no smoke really. There was a little bit of black smoke when I revved it higher into the RPM's, but that's it.

Is this normal?.. Should I even see white smoke when pouring it down the TB, I assume I would, or does this just mean my car is clean?

I have 12,000 miles on my Cobalt.



Edit: I have taken the brake booster line off and ran Seafoam through there also, no smoke, besides a few puffs of black smoke higher in the RPM range.

I've seen dudes Seafoam at 7,000 miles on a Cobalt and that **** smoked like no other.

Clean car much?

 

You don't need seafoam so early .

It's more of a 50k mile item.

 

feed some through a vacuum source as well. that really gets it in there. but smoke is only g oing to come out if the engine is dirty. if it's not that dirty not much smoke will come out of it.

 

i got 42K on the my balt. you thik its about time for seafoam?

 

Hence why the bottle says every 3,000-5,000 miles? It's more of a preventative/maintenance, item, in my opinion.

The only vacuum source I'm aware of, is the brake booster hose, which is impossible to get to. Am I even supposed to see smoke if I just pour it in the TB? I saw a hint of black smoke when I revved it up to like 6,000 RPM's, but that was it. Either I did it wrong, highly doubtful, or my car is clean.

I would.

 

Bump.

 

it says use every 3 - 5 k for only one reason.... YOUR MONEY!

 

I'm told by a friend that whenever he uses seafoam it fouls his plugs. If I were using it as regular maintenance on basically oil change intervals that would be freaking expensive replacing fouled plugs all the time! I haven't used it myself so I cant say with certainty but I will be testing it out in the next 6 months or so. His smokes like hell when he uses seafoam but with only that few miles yours probably is just too clean to smoke much. I don't think you need to use it so often unless you just don't mind spending the $ and have everything you need.

 

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You don't need to do that till you're past 50k.

 

i did my seafoam at 53,xxx and very lil smoke

 

Meh, to each his own, I suppose.

 

12k is early, but no smoke is a good sign

 

i put about a 1/3 of a can in my brake booster line and mine blew smoke like a bitch for about 15 minutes.... mines an 08' TC with about 22,000 miles so i guess it all depends on the car cause i expected to see nothing on that new of a car?!

 

i used this on my old alero and was driving down the road, my ol man went past me the other way, i get a phone call withing 3 seconds of him freaking out asking why my car was smoking so bad was pretty funny messing with him

 

That's why I did it. I know some people with low mileage have gotten a ****-ton of smoke, so I just wanted to make sure.

 

yeah thats what i figured... for like $7 bucks, why not lol

 

dumb ass question....any negatives about sea foam

 

i seafoamed my probe gt with 245k on it. And dammm that thing made its own cloud....that **** was DIRTY!

 

what is the point of this ****? what do it do besides blow smoke?

 

^^ gets rid of carbon, cleans inectors and carbs, stabalizes fuel. I have never changed plugs after i sea foamed anything of mine never had an issue

 

Nah, it's 100% safe as long as you follow the directions.

Same, but I've heard people say that it "fouled" their plugs; they must have done something wrong, or something, because I've never had this happen with any vehicles I've used Seafoam on.