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Valvoline Restore & Protect
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Yes, if I lived in Ontario, I would buy some 5 gallon gasoline cans in Walmart that fit in my trunk (perhaps 3 of those), and then would cross border to fill up the car's gas tank in US + fill up the the 3 additional 5 gallon jugs. You can bug a $1 funnel in Walmart that fits into gas tank hole and makes it easy to pour.I sent an email to Valvoline asking when it was going to be available in Canada and that person said they didn’t know when that would happen
I don’t live too far from the border so I bought a jug of it from a Walmart in Niagara Falls NY
You could probably save $100 a month doing that.
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Once again, this is the current BITOG "it" oil, and as such, objectivity tends to go out the window as people see what they want to see.
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Not really something I would ever do, especially if I’m in the Corvette since I would be smelling those gas fumes from the hatch area directly behind me
Good spot! That does make me somewhat suspect. Isn't that the pics that they shared to prove that this oil worked? I understand there is likely a lot more proof out there, but was this the one used on their marketing YouTube video? And if so, why did they opt to use these pics?
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Where exactly in Ontario, because I can leave my home, drive for 24 hours with a few small road stops, and still be in Ontario at the end of the day.
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Accurate.
I love those "The American mind can't comprehend" memes that show you can go through 7 countries in the span of a few hours. You can fit Germany in Ontario 3x, the "oh, just build some cables to connect to wind power in Alberta" it's like, they simply don't understand the scale. The James Bay watershed in Quebec is 4x the size of Denmark and the reservoirs alone for the James Bay Project cover an area twice the size of Holland.
Exactly, when certain products are used and dump all sort of junk in the filter it is like Moses just parted the red sea, if it is any other product and does it it is like Dr evil just dumped a sketchy product on consumers.
Personal observation.
2020 RAV4 Hybrid 84K miles before I started my first OCI on Valvoline Restore and Protect. The oil was very dark on the dipstick by the 4K mark so I changed it out. I’m now 4K miles into my second OCI with Valvoline Restore and Protect and the oil is still very light amber, only slightly darker than when it was new.
My unscientific assessment is that this new oil seemingly scrubbed some crap out of the engine that my previous oils missed. Overall I’m happy with this experiment.
2020 RAV4 Hybrid 84K miles before I started my first OCI on Valvoline Restore and Protect. The oil was very dark on the dipstick by the 4K mark so I changed it out. I’m now 4K miles into my second OCI with Valvoline Restore and Protect and the oil is still very light amber, only slightly darker than when it was new.
My unscientific assessment is that this new oil seemingly scrubbed some crap out of the engine that my previous oils missed. Overall I’m happy with this experiment.
Yes it will occur no matter what viscosity is used, but having stuck rings can certainly increase the rate of fuel dilution because there is more ring blow-by when the rings are stuck and not sealing like they should be when 100% free.
My comment was in response to the theory that thicker oil might make the oil warm-up faster and run hotter, thereby helping reduce fuel dilution. I said it wouldn't matter what oil viscosity was used, and that thicker oil would not help fuel dilution because any difference in oil temp due to higher viscosity is only a few degrees.
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BITOG....a strange corner of the interwebz....
Canada is big, big, big, but isn't it also more or less empty? I think I read that something like >90% of the population of Canada resides within 100 miles of the southern border and the majority of the rest live in the Maritimes? (That's 160 kilometers for the wicked.
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Im fine with that, there is no fun being normal. Theres Facebook and Reddit for the normie crowd. BiTOG gets its own unique share of success and horror stories but also the occasional entertainment when a simple question turns into a 40 page debate amongst BiTOGers.
See that old dude with that fast beater at the track? Under the hood is a clean valve train. 500,000 miles, how does he do it? Must be a thickie type of guy. Those types really hate the EPA and their CAFE. He sure knows something we dont.
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I got your back, in 5 months or less ill post some pics of the friends KIA oil fill port cleaning progress.
BITOG must be extra weird if Redit counts as normie, LOL.
This post is gold, absolute gold; I couldn’t have said it better myself!
"This filter was basically completely clogged."
How did he test that?
Just going by the looks & scraping a little bit off?
Looks like a BITOGer produced this for sure. "I've got some xyz in my filter, that means [add a myriad of things that you have no idea what caused them]".
I'm sure the Valvoline was to blame for all that junk in the Ford filter.
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