Is Ring Free really that expensive?

I bought a 32oz bottle of Ring Free w/ fuel additive this week and just noticed a receipt that showed $59 for the item. Really? Or did I get rung up wrong? It may be that expensive, but I sure didn't know that. If so, off to work I go. WOW!

Thats about the cost.

That is about what I paid for the last bottle I got.

Yeah, it must have gold and diamond dust in it as its secret ingredient. I still buy it.

Yes I paid $55 a few months back at Skeeter dealer.
Amazon has it for $48, I prefer to buy locally .

Might try biobor. Does what ring free does and other things for your motor and alot less expensive

MY boat mechanic told me that the Mercury Service rep told him that if you don't use anything else use Ring-Free!!! With the cost of everything else in bass fishing it seems like a smart move!

I buy it this way.


Ring Free

I'm going to biotech. has all the stuff ring free does plus more additives. only $18 and you can get it anywhere.

Biotech?...

That's why it's $59

I've been told that the additive in Chevron gas is the same as ring free.....I use sea foam too....it's a "wet" cleaner in addition to it's other properties

Never bought that over priced stuff in my life. Ran Sea Foam in all of my boats, just added some each time I put fuel in the tank. Never had any issues at all. Once my water jacket was clogged up with silt, had my mechanic break it all down, he said to keep using whatever I am using because the cylinders were as clean as any boat he'd ever seen... the boat was 10 years old with the original power head. An official dealer or mechanic might tell you different, but none of them can show you any research to lead a person to believe that Sea Foam isnt just as good.

The part that does the decarbing is nothing magical way over priced IMO.

unless you are running lots of miles every day these additives that seem to work are cheap insurance against costly mechanical work,i use ring free in both my yamahas,2 and four stroke as well as stabil- no probs so far!

My understanding is that Ring free was designed to raise the combustion chamber temperature to burnoff internal coke like deposits. I have bought and used it & agree that it is overpriced. Probabaly will not buy anymore however I will blow the sut out of it at WOT after extended idling/graphing and accomplish the same overall benefit with the exception of the ethanol additive in which I use Bioboreb

Seafoam basically does that. It burns very hot

You guys are missing one important point here. Ratios. A 12 oz. bottle of Ring Free will treat 120 gallons of fuel. A 16 oz. bottle of Seafoam will treat 16 gallons of fuel. You'd need 7.5 bottles of Seafoam to treat 120 gallons of fuel. At $12/bottle, that's $90 to treat the same amount of fuel that a $26 dollar bottle of Ring Free would treat.

Math. Do it.

Your math is good but I can save even more by not using either just use the hot foot to loose excessive coke/carbon build up.

Good luck with that and ethanol.

That's a bad idea! Many certified Yamaha mechanics have told me most owners of blown power heads when asked if they use Ring free plus, have never heard of it.

Fouz, that ratio is for a shock treatment. I only add two ounces per tank. My Hpdi blew using ring free and yamalube. I've run quicksilver and seafoam since and had no problems for the last 8 years.

Seafoam is 1 oz per gallon of fuel. Shock treatment is 2 oz. I use both Seafoam and Ring Free and will continue doing so. Ringfree per instructions. Seafoam every few tanks. Chris, no need to mess with what works for you.

Also an external water separator is a big help. Change the filter once a year.

The HPDI engines with blown power head issues have very little to do with carbon build up its more of design deficiencies. Check out broken ring pins & secret filters
I do recommend ethanol treatment & it does not hurt to run a decoking additive. The original post was how expensive ring free is & think it's over priced

I have 1995 pro v 150 I bought used the original owner told me from day 1 he never filled up with out ring free and sta-bil recommended I do the same. I have owned the boat since 2010 far as i know from previous owner never had an issue still runs like new. May blow tomorrow but I for one believe in ring free and sta-bil 20 yrs pretty good life span!

What am I missing? Yamaha Yamalube Ring Free Plus Fuel Additive is $21 plus free shipping on Amazon .

Better than the potential alternative. Not expensive when you only need 2oz per 20 gallons.

The $50 to $60 bottles are for 32 oz, I believe yours is 12 or 16 oz.

that's a 12oz bottle

Still waaaaay cheaper than Seafoam

I've been using Biobor because I had some I got for free... I'll keep using it for a while and checking my prop for carbon buildup

If it stays clean I'll probably stick with it

Not picking a fight big dog, but doesn't seafoam stabalize fuel for up to two years in addition to the cleaning property?? Ringfree says it's safe to use with a stabilizer..... If I'm wrong then I'm wrong......don't be hatin on my seafoam!

Yeah the biobor does the job of all 3 and stablizes the fuel for 18months. You get all 3 for an $18 bottle that does 240 gallons.

So at $59 for 120 gallons, that's an extra $.50 per gallon of fuel. At some point, it becomes cheaper to pay for the repair if that ever happens...

I've never used Seafoam or Ring Free and never had an issue. My boat is 18 years old on the original power head. I do put Stabil in with every fill-up.