Valvoline question.

[Jschreffler81]

Hello everyone I'm fairly new here yet but I have a general question regarding the sodium level in valvoline oils. While looking at other uoa's here I seen that valvoline is one of the few that use sodium as an additive so why is this looked down upon by many board members? Thanks

 

[Rand]

Its not nec. bad from a performance standpoint,but it makes it difficult to detect if antifreeze is leaking into the oil.

 

[tinmanSC]

It's not just Valvoline. Lots of oils have added Na to their cocktail in the last 2 years or so: AZ's house brand, 7-Eleven, Mobil Super 5000,Accel, Sunoco, AAP's house brand, ARCO, a couple Castrol products. I think valvoline was ahead of the curve on this one. But I agree with Rand, it's not "bad" just makes it harder to detect the Na and K present in coolant contaminated oil, which, honestly, isn't a concern for 99.99% of drivers on the road because they don't do UOAs or can still detect K even with high Na.

 

[Jschreffler81]

Thanks for clarifying that for me. I was unsure if it was inferior or why it wasn't a favored additive in valvoline oil.

 

[toneydoc]

I happen to like Valvoline products and they serve my engines well.
I have used them in vehicles and motorcycles.
They are quality products.

 

[aquariuscsm]

I've wondered how different Maxlife and Durablend are from each other,with the exception of Maxlife containing seal conditioners?

 

[wemay]

They're so close that when visiting one of their Quick Oil Change businesses last year, i was told they use MaxLife as the Synthetic Blend option now, not Durablend. I found this curious so contacted Ashland. They verified.

 

[ernied]

I did the same thing at monro muffler.they said the same thing. no more durablend.

 

[wemay]

Yeah, that seems to be the direction their heading in. Possibly phasing out Durablend. Just conjecture on my part though.