Honestly mostly my own curiosity and to help others. I have the perfect vehicle to run these experiments.
So, Glenda, what are your expectations for this phase of your experiment?
My goal is to see if ESP will keep my now cleaned rings from sticking again. I use ESP in a handful of other vehicles and have been very happy with what I see. If a $27 Walmart oil is capable of keeping low tension oil rings free it’s a win for everyone.
Yes I also have a 2.5 N/A. If you’re at 66k with EP I’d keep on truckin. If you do develop oil consumption pleaser let us know.
Will do.
That’s a negative. I remember adding extra Amsoil and thinking to myself ‘this is getting expensive to keep topping off with this oil’. I was looking at it from an ‘evaporation’ perspective and wasn’t thinking about it from a blow-by sticky piston rings and varnished up engine. Now I know better now that VR&P has done something these other brands couldn’t do. And for the record, SuperTech and other less expensive brands have never been inside my engine. So what does that tell you about how this product works?
That 0w30 ESP is what is going in my 2024 Forester next. Since 6000 miles is the maximum OCI, while under warranty, it makes little sense to stretch it out with something like HPL until at least after the warranty period. This car is mostly highway, but I'll probably be aiming at 5000 mile intervals just because it's easy for the driver to remember and alert me at the 5000 mile nodes. Bought the car in May 2024, and it nearly has 20,000 miles already! (0w30 ESP is already in a new Toyota 3.5 engine.)
Funny enough BG 44k is currently recommended by GM every oil change (7,500 miles in their eyes) to keep everything clean, and they even have their own Acdelco label on them in GM dealerships.
Its not fuel deposits, its oil deposits, esepcially with some racing piston designs that manufactures like Toyota uses. Very tiny oil ring return holes, fuel quality is not a fix, one reason Toyota is using very low weight thin oils, so they dont carbon and block oil ring channels by 40,000 miles, which they were seeing.
Who here got that memo? I missed it?
By General Motors the manufacturer per the owners manual for scheduled maintenance or as a GM dealership "recommended" add on?
I’ll stick with sale prices of either Techron or Regane …
Yep, Exxon or Mobil or Chevron or Shell …
So you don't have any oil consumption yet? This is interesting since you and Glenda have the same engine and similar OCIs yet she developed oil consumption, and you didn't. The only variable was she ran Valvoline for a while after M1.
It tells me it lines up with Valvoline's report that "it's the most important product release in their company's history" or something to that effect.
