Valvoline R&P 0w-20 10.9k mi; 2022 Toyota Camry Hybrid 2.5L 120k mi

[cutnapath]

10.9K mile sample of Valvoline R&P 0w-20 with a FRAM Synthetic Endurance FE4967 oil filter in my 22 Toyota Camry Hybrid 2.5L. Mostly highway/interstate miles with some city and rural road driving. Car now has 120k miles on it. Only thing changing for next is will be using the new Mobil 1 oil filter as the Fram Endurance is becoming harder to find in my area.

 

[JohnnyJohnson]

Did you have to top off? If not how much oil did you use on this OCI?

 

[loneryder]

Good oil!

 

[MurkyAsparagus]

Thats ~0.37 ppm/1k mi of Fe… holy cow that’s crazy, even for Toyota IMO. I just crossed 123456 miles on mine, may switch to this in the future. It’s dual-injected, which mitigates carbon buildup on the valves nearly completely. This engine could be a 500k mi engine, easily. It’s a simple engine with no belts and easy maintenance. Plus, the eCVT is bulletproof.

 

[Hirev]

Good to see a report on Valvoline R&P 0w-20... Thanks. Those wear numbers are impressive.

 

[Jetronic]

Thats ~0.37 ppm/1k mi of Fe… holy cow that’s crazy, even for Toyota IMO. I just crossed 123456 miles on mine, may switch to this in the future. It’s dual-injected, which mitigates carbon buildup on the valves nearly completely. This engine could be a 500k mi engine, easily. It’s a simple engine with no belts and easy maintenance. Plus, the eCVT is bulletproof.

or 0.74.... look at the phosporous numbers and then tell me how confident you are about any elemental number in there. How can the phosporous jump to twice the amount in 4k miles. Especially since phosporous is linked to zinc, both come from the same molecule and the ratio is fixed.

uoa is not precise enough to make such claims.

 

[himemsys]

Thats ~0.37 ppm/1k mi of Fe… holy cow that’s crazy, even for Toyota IMO. I just crossed 123456 miles on mine, may switch to this in the future.

It's a very good oil, but it's not responsible for the wear numbers on this sample. My bet is on the 700 miles per week of mostly highway miles. Any decent oil would produce similar wear numbers in the same engine under same driving conditions.

 

[buster]

Nice oil/engine combo and results.

 

[JavierH19]

Did you use r&p on the 7k uoa or is that a different valvoline variant?

 

[fantastic]

How does the filter look? Results are excellent.

 

[MurkyAsparagus]

or 0.74.... look at the phosporous numbers and then tell me how confident you are about any elemental number in there. How can the phosporous jump to twice the amount in 4k miles. Especially since phosporous is linked to zinc, both come from the same molecule and the ratio is fixed.

uoa is not precise enough to make such claims.

It’s still ~0.37 ppm of Fe per 1k miles.

The comments on engine lifespan weren’t related to their UOAs, it was just a general observation based upon my experience with the engine. I’ve followed dnewton3’s comments on UOAs along with others, no claims made here.

It's a very good oil, but it's not responsible for the wear numbers on this sample. My bet is on the 700 miles per week of mostly highway miles. Any decent oil would produce similar wear numbers in the same engine under same driving conditions.

I would agree, any decent oil with API SP/SQ would most likely provide similar results. There’s a guy on Reddit who had nearly 500k on this same engine, strictly highway.