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irollo said:
When I asked the question the goal wasn’t to discredit people’s experiences with oil consumption which is a measureable thing. I was asking to be pointed to before and after pictures which is also a measureable, black and white result. Or brown and silver in this case. In another thread I linked where you can get a discount deal on it so I don’t think it’s snake oil for it’s advertised purpose.
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Why don't you just try it out for yourself and find out 1st hand for results or not?
 
ZeeOSix said:
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Why don't you just try it out for yourself and find out 1st hand for results or not?
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Like I said a couple posts ago I don't need any new oil in the near future - my next change is +6 months out and I already have oil for it. For all intents and purposes I'm looking to see if it cleans up varnish to see if I'd be interested in switching in the future.
 
BrendanC said:
most people aren’t ripping their valve covers off for fun.
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Nor are they pulling pistons, taking photos of the before, running 4 oil changes and pulling the same pistons to take photos.... The VR&P is designed to clean piston deposits, they say nothing about varnish or sludge under the valve covers. I know it's not you, but others who think the the valve covers is some tell tale sign the the oil is doing its cleaning. Lots of oils will clean the top end, but it's the piston deposits in the ring lands and the oil control rings were the big issue is, and that is what VR&P is designed to clean where others not only wont keep it clean, but clean it up after the deposits have occurred.

I look at it this way, when you can take a vehicle that was gobbling oil and turn it into not using oil at all after running it, thats what were after and what it's all about. I always have to test things myself being a highly successful drag racer, and wouldn't take anyones word on anything. I've tried VR&P firsthand and am now a firm believer and they didn't give me the oil either. I have had sponsors that gave me oil products and Valvoiline isn't one of them. I bought it from Walmart to use in our Audi Q7 that was gobbling oil from stuck oil control rings, and they are now stuck no more and no longer using oil. I've now starting using it in my 1/2 ton Chevy pickup with 44,000 miles on the clock hoping to keep the lifter problems and sticking oil control rings with the 5.3 in that vehicle at bay. I plan to run VR&P in both vehicles continuously into the future, thats how much I believe in it after seeing the results in our Audi Q7, and I don't have to take the pistons out of it just for fun or to take a photo of the results.
 
BrendanC said:
my truck’s fill hole doesn’t see anything inside the valve train. both honda’s in ny sig have a baffle that don’t allow view of the valve train. a lot of vehicles are like this.
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There's literally millions of 2GR-FE's sold.
 
KnappAttak said:
Nor are they pulling pistons, taking photos of the before, running 4 oil changes and pulling the same pistons to take photos.... The VR&P is designed to clean piston deposits, they say nothing about varnish or sludge under the valve covers. I know it's not you, but others who think the the valve covers is some tell tale sign the the oil is doing its cleaning. Lots of oils will clean the top end, but it's the piston deposits in the ring lands and the oil control rings were the big issue is, and that is what VR&P is designed to clean where others not only wont keep it clean, but clean it up after the deposits have occurred.

I look at it this way, when you can take a vehicle that was gobbling oil and turn it into not using oil at all after running it, thats what were after and what it's all about. I always have to test things myself being a highly successful drag racer, and wouldn't take anyones word on anything. I've tried VR&P firsthand and am now a firm believer and they didn't give me the oil either. I have had sponsors that gave me oil products and Valvoiline isn't one of them. I bought it from Walmart to use in our Audi Q7 that was gobbling oil from stuck oil control rings, and they are now stuck no more and no longer using oil. I've now starting using it in my 1/2 ton Chevy pickup with 44,000 miles on the clock hoping to keep the lifter problems and sticking oil control rings with the 5.3 in that vehicle at bay. I plan to run VR&P in both vehicles continuously into the future, thats how much I believe in it after seeing the results in our Audi Q7, and I don't have to take the pistons out of it just for fun or to take a photo of the results.
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Yup, you're who I'm talking about. You've had a measureable improvement based on it's advertised purpose. I'm looking around to see if other users have seen varnish cleaning that they can share. Like I said the car I have with varnish is old, the varnish won't kill it, I'm curious if R&P has been cleaning varnish for anyone. Pretty simple.
 
knapp explained a success story, i combine it with EC30 and took a car that burned 1quart/1000miles into a car that doesn’t burn a drop over 12k on HPL. It works, varnish cleaning isn’t specified so i don’t understand the fixation on varnish. it is meant to clean ring lands. varnish doesn’t hurt anything. my truck is heavily varnished from its time in fleet service on dino juice. yet doesn’t burn a drop of oil.
 
BrendanC said:
i’m not, knapp explained a success story, i combine it with EC30 and took a car that burned 1quart/1000miles into a car that doesn’t burn a drop over 12k on HPL. It works, varnish cleaning isn’t specified so i don’t understand the fixation on varnish. it is meant to clean ring lands. varnish doesn’t hurt anything. my truck is heavily varnished from its time in fleet service on dino juice. yet doesn’t burn a drop of oil.
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Yeah like I said if the varnish stays then it stays. It's an old car I have and I'm merely curious if anyone has seen it do some cleaning or significant cleaning. Varnish doesn't not have any negative effects. But like I said it's not going to kill the engine. For the umpteenth time I'm merely curious if anyone has seen any improvement. This horse is looking really disgusting.
 
irollo said:
For all intents and purposes I'm looking to see if it cleans up varnish to see if I'd be interested in switching in the future.
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The video in post 1841 mentioned the varnish was gone on the dipstick. Plus he showed varnish was removed on the valve train using the borescope. How much evidence do you need, lol.
 
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