Valvoline MaxLife Semi-Synthetic - Anyone Using?

[OilStainedNapkin]

Need it for leaks, too. I go through 1.5 qts per oil change, and the oil is not sitting in my driveway. Not worth the engine repair to me.

1.5 quarts of usage with no evidence of oil on the ground would signify the oil is being consumed, not leaking. Thats a lot of oil to seep and not hit the ground

 

[lawrencerd]

I have about 4 jugs of it left from an instant rebate sale a while back. I've used it some in our older Elantra GT, my Jeep, or sometimes my OPE.

I'd run it in my Mustang GT, it meets all specs.. but I don't have any leaks and I usually have some synthetic from sales, so I've run other oils first.

I've never had any issues and it has been the best at slowing leaks that I've tried.

 

[ceecbtg]

Yes european 10w40 red bottle, it was so good like other Valvoline. All B4 version keep clean engine and running smoothly. Maxlife has extra seals additive, anyway clean good like other, example All Climate or Synpower here.

 

[BobNeas]

1.5 quarts of usage with no evidence of oil on the ground would signify the oil is being consumed, not leaking. Thats a lot of oil to seep and not hit the ground

Yep, sure is. But I'm not going to spend big bucks on engine repairs. Just not worth it.

 

[nthach]

Nothing wrong with MaxLife red bottle in older things that don’t need full synthetic. I’ve used some for an old Ford 3.0L Vulcan.

 

[JN94]

I'm currently using it in a TBI 350. Seems to help with minor leaks on mine and has the least consumption.

 

[Japanese]

My truck has over 300,000 miles, probably time to make sure I mop up the sludge inside. Does Valvoline MaxLife do a decent job of doing this? Any comments appreciated, thanks.

I used Valvoline MaxLife semi-synthetic 5W-30 for about 7-8 years straight in my '98 Civic. However, I think initially I was changing it at 4,000 miles and then went to 3,000. I don't remember exactly. It had about 130K miles when I started to use the MaxLife and I sold it at about 210-220K miles. It was always burning 1 qt of oil for 3,000 miles. The oil consumption never went lower or higher for 8 years. Maybe before I sold it was 1.5 qt, I don't remember exactly but it was over 200K miles anyway.

This is the valve train at around 160K-180K miles, when we replaced the timing belt and everything around that service. It had a bit of varnish but I didn't see any sludge. I'm not sure if it was neglected the first 120K miles when I bought it or my 4K miles oil changes caused the varnish.

 

[4wd]

Anyone know moly & boron on ML red ?

 

[ceecbtg]

Anyone know moly & boron on ML red ?

Here 10w40, 5w40 and 5w30 all have Mo 150-200ppm, Bo depend some 0 other 100ppm. May be there is different.

 

[2strokeNorthstar]

Valvoline MaxLife is fine but it's not for sludge or cleaning. It's more for weeping and leaking older motors.