Redline SL-1 fuel additive questions.

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How many gallons of gas is it good for? I was reading 100 to 150 gallons on this website; is that correct? If it treats that many gallons then one bottle in a 15 gallon tank would be too much.
Also, how are the maintenance doses done?
Just want to see how other people are using the Redline product. Thanks.
 
What your reading is one bottle one tank initially, then maintenance doses after that. If you always use the whole bottle, thats fine. Even better IMO. Nothing to fear.
 
Not so. I used an entire bottle as directed on a Chevy truck and had massive injector problems immediately afterwards (within 50 miles). Several were so badly clogged with a soluble-in-acetone-only granular crud that they had to be replaced. Others were able to be cleaned. I never understood where the stuff originated but I would never add a whole bottle again . Truck at the time had about 30,000 mile on it.
 
Originally Posted By: Boomer
Not so. I used an entire bottle as directed on a Chevy truck and had massive injector problems immediately afterwards (within 50 miles). Several were so badly clogged with a soluble-in-acetone-only granular crud that they had to be replaced. Others were able to be cleaned. I never understood where the stuff originated but I would never add a whole bottle again . Truck at the time had about 30,000 mile on it.


Sounds like a one in a million shot, the injectors were probably on their way out before the addition of the product. Bad luck and coincidence meeting head on. JMO BTW I'm not flaming you, but these things can and do happen.
 
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Several were so badly clogged with a soluble-in-acetone-only granular crud that they had to be replaced

Who knows what you had in there and why the injector filters didn't catch it. Redline has no acetone listed in this product.
I don't know why it happened but i doubt the Redline was the cause.
 
I going to side with Boomer on this one.

I know, I know, I know a whole bottle shouldn't cause issues...

But...

I gave a bottle to my friend. Even though I told him to split up the bottle among his cars, he's the type that thinks if some is good, more is better.

He dumped the whole bottle in a '00 Ranger of higher mileage. Shortly after his engine wouldn't stay running. After changing just about everything it turned out not to be the injectors, but in the process of chasing the problem he dropped the tank and cleaned out the fuel lines+rail. In the rail and lines was a bunch of "silt" and crud.

So even though the problem wasn't injector related, I think doing a shock dose on an older vehicle of unknown history is asking for trouble. Never know what you're going to "clean".

Completely anecdotal, but now I don't consider a whole bottle->tank to be a good idea.
 
Originally Posted By: Boomer
Not so. I used an entire bottle as directed on a Chevy truck and had massive injector problems immediately afterwards (within 50 miles). Several were so badly clogged with a soluble-in-acetone-only granular crud that they had to be replaced. Others were able to be cleaned. I never understood where the stuff originated but I would never add a whole bottle again . Truck at the time had about 30,000 mile on it.
The whole story is illogical. At 30k the injectors were so fouled they needed replacement? Some people never use fuel system cleaner and are fine for 200k. Blame the injector cleaner for cleaning too good? You clearly had a prior condition you tried to solve with a bottle of Red Line.

Why am I calling you on this story? Because I just performed a search on here looking for people that had issues with the product. Only you. Making this claim on SI-1 posts for YEARS.
 
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Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Do the bottles not have marks for 10 gal increments anymore? Used to.


Not the one I have seen.



Mine have no marks either.
 
Originally Posted By: jhMalibu
I going to side with Boomer on this one.

I know, I know, I know a whole bottle shouldn't cause issues...

But...

I gave a bottle to my friend. Even though I told him to split up the bottle among his cars, he's the type that thinks if some is good, more is better.

He dumped the whole bottle in a '00 Ranger of higher mileage. Shortly after his engine wouldn't stay running. After changing just about everything it turned out not to be the injectors, but in the process of chasing the problem he dropped the tank and cleaned out the fuel lines+rail. In the rail and lines was a bunch of "silt" and crud.

So even though the problem wasn't injector related, I think doing a shock dose on an older vehicle of unknown history is asking for trouble. Never know what you're going to "clean".

Completely anecdotal, but now I don't consider a whole bottle->tank to be a good idea.


This also happened to a couple of older vehicles belonging to Chevron employees who participated in the original field test of Techron.
 
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Do the bottles not have marks for 10 gal increments anymore? Used to.

Yes they did on the last ones i bought (silver label) about a year ago.
IIRC the old Red labels had it also and i am almost positive it treated 150 gal then but i'm not 100% sure
New or old labels?
 
I had no problem before adding the Redline. Just a 30,000 mile maintenance item. Then ....wham. I think it probably dislodged a bunch of crud. The stuff in the injectors was like very fine sand grains, really hard but made of an organic material that would swell and dissolve in acetone but not gasoline. It had adhered so badly to the injector nozzles of the injectors that they replaced that there was really no way to get them clean again without damage.
 
I was supposed to buy some redline today from Oreilly.. but the Chevron techron fuel system cleaner that treats up to 20gallons was on sale.. BUY 1 GET 1 ..so i paid for 2 and got 2 for free! I think it was a pretty good deal! Guess i would have to wait til i used up all my 4 techron bottles to be able to try out the Redline s1
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THe sale runs through today ( Sunday Dec 2 2012) and the limit is i believe 6 bottles so you can get 12 bottles for the price of 6
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I think it is that the vehicle was suspect (current owner did not know the complete condition due to PO.

When you use the products (ACCORDING TO MANUFACTURE'S DIRECTIONS ) YOU WILL NOT HAVE PROBLEMS UNLESS there is a unusual variable involved.

If I had the OP vehicle I would have simply used top tier gas for perhaps 6-9 months and then tried using the in tank product.
 
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Do the bottles not have marks for 10 gal increments anymore? Used to.


Yea they seem to have replaced that label. I don't understand why because i liked it and followed the 10 gallon increments all the time. Now i have to eye ball it.
 
There's no harm in using the whole bottle of redline s1 in one tank?

I just realized that amsoil PI is 12oz bottle and redline is 15oz.. so 3oz shouldn't make a big deal out of it i guess?

I might just stick to one bottle of redline s1 every 5k km instead of doing the maintenance dosage?
 
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