Ive read lots here, about valvoline all climate, having a very weak additive package.... What's a good or best additive, to use with All climate?
Good additive to use with valvoline all climate?
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Almost forgot... The all climate i am thinking about, is SL series.. 5w30 and 10w 30.
How long of OCI are looking to run?
Well, i alwasy do 3 months,3,000 miles, whichever comes first. I normal have between 1,700 , and 2, 800 miles in 3 months. IM lookig for an additive, t spice it up, lots of MOLY ect. CAnnot find SLOB OR VSOT around here, so looking for other alternatives.
If you are only going for 3K follow Ugly3's advice. Valvoline or any other SL/SM oil will perform about the same for 3 months or 3K. Added additives for such an short OCI is throwing money away. Save your money for gas/tires/spark plugs/fuel filers etc.
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The Valvoline All-Climate has good wear numbers for non-extended use (3K). Going beyond that calls for you getting a UOA. Adding additives will not take you into extended service land.
I would suggest the additives Valvoline apparently adds to All Climate in making Maxlife. With Maxlife you get all the benefits of All Climate, plus likely a thicker base oil (HTHS is higher), 12-22% PAO, seal conditioners (not sweller, but conditioner), extra detergents and about 300 ppm moly. Then run the stuff 6 months/approx 5000 or so miles.
If I were you, and I had my heart set on using an oil additive, I'd use the new Fram oil stabilizer. Then, I'd send in a sample for a UOA after 3k, so we can all oogle over it. Who knows, the Fram additive might even allow you to extend your OCI out past 3k miles. We'll never know unless you try.
My Advance Auto had the Fram additive on clearance early this month. There also is an STP additive that is not thick and is in a big round bottle like the Fram stuff.
If you are doing a 3/3000 oci, no additives are necessary.
Wavinwayne, Valvoline all climate, is made form wax, and WILL sludge my engine up? Are you serious? Do tell!!
That is his quote for every motor oil. Darn wayne. Which one should I use?
LOl yeah wayne give ii up!! Are ALL dinos that bad?
That's just my sig. fellas. It's not aimed at any oil in particular.
I suppose you could add Valvoline Synthetic Oil Treatment to the All Climate. That way everything would be in the same family.
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Id run LC20, and watch the length that I run the oil overall...
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Give Pep Boys a call for VSOT. They stock it in their NC stores and there is a store in Bridgeport.
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It appears that Valvoline agrees with you that their additive package is weak. On ther web site they lead us to believe that we should buy their Synpower engine oil additive. They claim that there Synpower is so good, that it's better than STP. So it looks like if you want to use Valvoline oil, you should follow their lead and use Synpower, too. Otherwise you could just use a better conventional oil that does not need a bottle of something to boost it's performance.
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