Valvoline R&P 5W-30 | 5k mi OCI | 2020 Toyota Tundra
- Thread starter PWMDMD
- Start date
4WD
$50 site donor 2025
4WD
$50 site donor 2025
On the website there are many claims - even pictures of the cleaning of pistons - and this EP has Dexos and so on …Well one is "best" and the other is "highest" so I guess you can take your pick!
They do make the distinction of "best performing high mileage" motor oil for the Extended Protection High Mileage though.
Doubt there are major differences - that costs money
It was standard pennzoil 5w30 (Dino) so I would probably assume it wasn’t on par with valvoline synthetic. Plus it was a summer time run through the blue ridge mountains of NC. The manual stated that I could use non synthetic 5w30 and I had a 5qt jug I had got for a good deal. This was the only time this car ever saw anything that wasn’t 0-20 synthetic.
Both are great. I’ve been running EP / EP HM in the Mustang for a while but next OCI I am going to do a maintenance run of VRP.
4WD
$50 site donor 2025
Well, it was on the same front page as R&P …
Even if I were using VR&P I may run a substitute oil like M1 0W30 ESP every 3rd OCI just to see if the M1 picks up anything additional (cleaning) with it’s different add pack .
If (like most BITOG members) you do <5K mile / 6 month OCI’s using a good synthetic oil - then perhaps all you will need is one or two maintenance runs of VR&P now and then for total clean up. If I don’t stay with VR&P full time - I’ll use it every 3rd OCI subbing with my regular M1 0W30 / 5W30 ESP oil.
Samples 2 and 4 pulled manganese from somewhere. Interesting.
Looks like a good oil that would serve me well in the winter. I rarely go over 4K from November till April and this is priced well enough I can dump it and not feel bad. Plus it may just do something. My summer sales tour starts Sunday. Ohio to Fairfax then back home and back to Missouri the week after. My company will pay mileage (72 cents) a mile for anything under an 8 hr drive. I’ve managed to never really have to make a car payment this way. I’m running good oil this summer since I’m going to bottom out the OLM.
What's this in reference to?Samples 2 and 4 pulled manganese from somewhere. Interesting.
May? Pretty convincing evidence here I think it works quite well.
I don’t know that any of my cars need VRP to be honest. My oldest car, 18 rogue has 102k and basically saw nothing but maxlife synthetic that was changed between 4-5k religiously. I stuck a horoscope down as far as I could get it and it was absolutely pristine. My daily driver has 48k and a solid run of hpl ppcmo revealed next to no carbon in the filter. My wife’s has 11k on it and has had hpl for 10k of those miles. I doubt VRP would be a benefit. But I do like the idea of what it may prevent come winter time.
SEMI SYNTHETIC MAXLIFE ????? I run the full synthetic high mileage 5w30. Garage box oil in my wifes frontier ,,,,,,, really good oil,,,,,, got 2 of those boxes for 50 bucks lolol
What about it technically makes you love it so much?
