Valvoline Restore and Protect

[Samurai1225]

I totally have to ignore the wife's Honda Accord's OLM recommendation. It will only get to the 15% oil life / time to change at about 10,000mi. That is gambling, or asking for dirty engine or future issues no mater what expensive Gold Standard oil anyone would use.
I am a long time "boutique" oil user from over 25 years Amsoil use and as of late in wife's car a user of HPL. Still not ever doing 10,000mi.
Autos are far too expensive to own and upkeep to go cheapo on oil or long extended oci IMHO.

I have a 23 Honda CTR and my last OCI was 7000 miles (HPL) and my OLM was @ 50%. Granted I drive significant expressway miles, but there is no way I'm running it down to the 15% oil life indicated. I'm fixin to start my 3rd OCI of Valvoline Restore and Protect on my beater 06 Civic DX with an unknown maintenance history .

 

[logain]

Couple of weeks ago I sent an email to Cummins in the UK requesting a quote for some Valvoline Premium Blue Restore for our Transporter & Volvo.

Well today I had a phone call from a technical manager within Valvoline here in the UK who has just returned from the US learning about Restore & Protect. It's coming to the UK around February and will come in higher viscosity options more suited to our engines. In the meantime, they're going to try find me a sample to try!

I'm so excited!

Hopefully it does. I would like to try it in the F150. Thinking I am going to get some to try in the wife's old Avenger until then, just to see.

 

[4WD]

You can bet if another oil could reverse piston ring deposits completely they would be jumping on the R&P bandwagon. It’s just too popular. I bet others will eventually follow suit.

I do believe HPL and Amsoil SS can keep pistons almost factory clean even in severe service and extended oci’s. I also believe they can remove some piston deposits. The question is to what extent?

You don’t need any of these - just do Italian tuneups hundreds of times …

 

[ChrisD46]

What was used before ESP?

Mostly M1 5W30 EP .

 

[Pablo]

Mostly M1 5W30 EP .

Shoot sorry, I lost track in the thread. Sorry for the questions. What vehicle/engine, OCI, driving style and total miles. This seems highly unusual. Thanks!

 

[tired]

Shoot sorry, I lost track in the thread. Sorry for the questions. What vehicle/engine, OCI, driving style and total miles. This seems highly unusual. Thanks!

He has a Hyundai 2.4 L GDI Theta II engine, mixed driving conditions. Rings stuck with short OCIs with M1 EP.

 

[Pablo]

He has a Hyundai 2.4 L GDI Theta II engine, mixed driving conditions. Rings stuck with short OCIs with M1 EP.

Problem engine imho

 

[ChrisD46]

Problem engine imho

The over all engine history would agree with you ! Valvoline Restore and Protect may never eliminate oil burning in this engine - we’ll see after a couple more OCI’s to clean any residual deposits from the time I used QSUD , Castrol Edge and Castrol Magnetec . The rest of the time was M1 5W30 EP , a time or two with M1 vanilla 5W30 before the switch to M1 0W30 ESP. A higher HTHS is this engines friend - at least Valvoline Restore and Protect 5W30 has a HTHS of 3.2 although the M1 0W30 ESP with an HTHS of 3.5 is probably better yet . Lastly , no OCI’s over 4,000 miles / 6 months even though driving pattern is now up to 70% highway & interstate after moving .

 

[ChrisD46]

So , today I changed the 2021 Kia Seltos 2.0L Nu engine oil to its 3rd straight OCI using Valvoline Restore and Protect 5W30 . I paid attention to the noise level at the end of the current 2nd Valvoline Restore and Protect fill at 4,600 miles and found nothing alarming or unusual to report . Was the new fill (3rd) of Valvoline Restore and Protect 5W30 more quiet and a little smoother ? Yes it was but so have new fills of previous decent synthetic oils , so again nothing unusual to report . I found Valvoline Restore and Protect is generally quiet through the entire OCI in what I consider a less refined Kia engine (versus Toyota and other more refined engines). Therefore my unscientific opinion is growing engine noise over the course of an OCI with Valvoline Restore and Protect is pretty much engine dependant .