Recent content by Brnrbr

Dont use motor oil additives.

Thats one of the few oils that truly is different. Few oils actually disolve baked on carbon deposits. It does. And you can use it for the life of tge vehicle.

They cant depend on GTL supply. When the Pearl facility is back up, the GTL label will be back...

But "2" is higher. Equals better.

I love Mobil 2.

I buy my vehicles based on the a/c specs Must blow icesickles out of the vents

You can run Valvoline Restore and Protect forever. Not just as a clean up oil. I got my lowest wear numbers with it, and its stopped my oil consumption problems. It's a win/win oil. And it has seal conditioners, although not as many as a dedicated high mileage oil.

I just replace a 14 year old evap purge valve on my 2012 Hyundai Genesis with a new Gates valve. It lasted 3 days before it died. "Open Purge valve circuit" error code. It was Chinese made of course.

Quaker State Ultimate Protection had GTL base on its Safety Data Sheet. Look for "The Fischer-Tropsch process" on its SDS.

But what if I cherish my OCD?

Ive been changing my own oil on 3 cars on aversge for about 35 years. I have never installed a new washer. And i have never had a leak.

Only Platinum is gtl the last time I looked.

Potential problems include mixing two different chemistries. Additives in one oil may upset the balance of chemicals in the other oil. Oil manufacturers can make very different chemistry even between viscosities of the same exact oil brand and type. Now is this very likely? Probably not. But the...

This smells like WAY overthinking things. I wouldn't do the mixing thing. Theres little benefit & potential problems with doing this.

R & P already has a lot of moly. No need to add more. You can add too much.