I’m running EP in my 9 month old Mustang as well. Like you said no need for R&P yet, and shouldn’t ever be with a 5k regimen of top quality synthetics.I didn't notice that part.Well, if it shows up in-store at that price it is a hard no. The Ep is great and I see no reason to spend the extra dough on R&P, especially since my vehicle is barely a year old and has the build changed every 5,000.
That tsb was kind of addressing two different issues. Our engines don't have AFM so it was just the PCV issue. However I think it oil changes had been done frequently enough (conventional when olm tells you - or a few weeks after that as my boss always seemed to do) may not have been frequent enough). In my case it was just the fact that the new updated valve cover wasn't blocked by sludge in the PCV. If I'd been able to clean the sludge out of the original that probably would have worked too big instead I ripped out the baffles so I could see how much crap was in there.
The new updated valve cover internal pvc baffling is completely different. Here's a pic of old and new.
Yeah I know. I posted the same thing a couple years ago. I think the updated one just holds up better to lack of maintenance. They didn't smoke and burn oil when they were new with the original design. If I owned the truck from new it wouldn't have needed the replacement valve cover.
The Unobtanium chemical compounds are not visible in a basic elemental analysis.
Well, no compounds with known cleaning ability show up on the SDS, either. Maybe you have to do a rain dance and sacrifice a chicken on the intake manifold to activate the secret sauce?
Has there been validated lab testing that shows Triple Action has ANs (and how much)? I thought I remembered a post by Overkill in one of the early Triple Action threads that he or someone else had contacted Mobil and they said it did not have ANs. Can’t remember.
@travis8352 found some patent filings. Maybe he can elaborate when he has some free time.
4 Oil Changes, LOL
I think what Brian was implying is “four or more” could mean it takes 100,000 miles and 20 oil changes to clean, if ever. Just like their “up to 100% piston cleaning”. There were some questionable piston results I asked about in reply to buster’s pic of the pistons from the video… there appear to be at least 3 different types of pistons, but yet the presentation makes it look like one set of 4 pistons before and after.
Yep, I got that part. I was just confirming.
Just seeing a table with no context doesn’t necessarily prove BGMO is a secret sauce, nor that it’s in VRP. BGMO may be of some help for cleanliness; I don’t know enough about that compound to dispute its potential totally.
The more we wonder about VRP and the more we debate the "secret sauce" that might be in it, the bigger the disappointment will be when we finally find out that it's just another run of the mill Valvoline motor oil.Just seeing a table with no context doesn’t necessarily prove BGMO is a secret sauce, nor that it’s in VRP. BGMO may be of some help for cleanliness; I don’t know enough about that compound to dispute its potential totally.
But I can say with certainty, that the current champ of oils known to clean using ANs & esters doesn’t use BGMO in any product they make, so it can’t be that magical. Just sayin’,
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