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Valvoline Restore & Protect
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I’ll allow it.And even more often, interesting discussions and research are nipped in the bud by cheap humor
The washer on the oil drain plug on my wife’s old Yaris seemed like aluminium or some vey light metal. Never replaced it. The car got wrecked/totalled at about 170k
The decision to buy 5 qt bottles instead of 1 gallon bottle is a personal choice. I got it from the secondary market.Errr....all 10 quarts ?Talk about " aggressive " piston ring cleaning !
I did say the RAV4 consumes about 1 qt every 500 miles. These 5 quarts will get me through roughly 2500 miles. At which point by 3000 miles, I will perform the 2nd OC.
By the time you've added 5 qts of oil in 3000 miles, you've basically done an oil change.
I recall reading a thread about perpetual oil changes, because that is what I’m experiencing with the R4. I’m hoping this would stop the oil consumption or at the very least reduce it.By the time you've added 5 qts of oil in 3000 miles, you've basically done an oil change.
The reason to start at 242,000 is because at this mileage, the R4 would be 1 qt down.
Good catch on the faux pas, I am human, prone to errors, and the type that leaps before looking.
Let me rephrase:
These 5 quarts will get me through roughly 2500 miles. At which point by 3000 miles, [when I add another quart,] I w[ould have] perform[ed] the 2nd [of 4] OC.
Recently switched to VRP 5W-30 for the wife's turbo 2.5L Kia Sorrento. I was not having any oil consumption issues and have an OCI of 5K miles since new. I seem to have noticed that the engine is a bit quieter on cold startup which I like. I really like the idea of keeping those low-friction oil control rings clean and free of carbon deposits, etc. YMMV and at some point I'll do another UOA to see what I can see.
Soak the pistons with Berryman's B12 Chemtool. My 2007 Camry ( with the 2AZ-FE oil chugger extraordinaire) was at around 1 quart every 350 miles. A 5 day soak with B12 got her to near 1 quart every 3000 miles. I am doing my second soak soon to knock it back even more and then switching to VRP. It isn't too complicated and cheap (1 can of B12 is about $4something). I documented it all here (I don't know how to do the insert thread thing on this forum):
https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/t...ed-2007-camry-2az-fe-153k-consumption.374589/
May be a fluke , but just added my a quart after 1300 miles since the last quart. Call me impressed. I've never used that little oil since putting this engine in! Usually it was between 500 and 800 per quart.
I added oil in march, hopped on the highway and drove 250 miles home at 70. Its got 4.10 gears so that was around 2300 RPM for a few hours. Since then its been trips to my moms old house and back cleaning out the garage - 120 miles round trip hauling some trash but nothing too heavy or hard.
Judging by the drips this leaves , I'm pretty confident it doesn't burn a drop. Just leaks it out of the head.
I'm A fan of >3000 mile changes but with how black it is and knowing this was sludged up bad before , I may change when I hit 3000
I added oil in march, hopped on the highway and drove 250 miles home at 70. Its got 4.10 gears so that was around 2300 RPM for a few hours. Since then its been trips to my moms old house and back cleaning out the garage - 120 miles round trip hauling some trash but nothing too heavy or hard.
Judging by the drips this leaves , I'm pretty confident it doesn't burn a drop. Just leaks it out of the head.
I'm A fan of >3000 mile changes but with how black it is and knowing this was sludged up bad before , I may change when I hit 3000
By the time you've added 5 qts of oil in 3000 miles, you've basically done an oil change.
Had a friend who kept a Dayton with the 2.2 running that way, stripped out drain plug and copious leaks; he took the leaks as a solution to the drain plug problem.
I did that when my truck got to the point it was losing a quart every 75ish miles out of the head gasket. Just change the filter once a year. Every 450 miles I was doing an oil change!
At what point does one thinks, even VRP is not going help.
It's definitely not going to help the head leaking. The truck sat for a year, I suspect that's why it was going through a quart every 200 miles recently.
When it got bad to the point of a quart every 75ish miles, I was genuinely worried about the truck catching fire. There was a LOT of oil leaking right onto the exhaust crossover.
I pulled the head and had it machined down get rid of the corrosion near the oil passage that was causing the leak. The machine shop didn't take care of it 100% and it was still leaking a quart every few hundred miles after putting the head back on.
I can still see oil leaking out of the head. VRP isn't going to do anything for that. With the amount of crusty sludge I found, I'm sure VRP cleaned out some stuff stuck in the rings, maybe some stuff on the valve stems. I don't think it can do anything about a 250,000 mile rear main seal that isn't leaking currently ... or a corroded head that's still leaking.
This is exactly like the shampoo industry. That ol' lather, rinse and repeat gag. They doubled their sales by adding that line to the bottle. Just like "ask your Doctor if new poison X is right for you".You have to do a minimum of four oil changes following the manufacturer's recommended OCI for "Restore & Protect" to work.
Not really. They discovered this new detergent by accident. Testing showed that it took 4 OCIs minimum to complete cleaning. This is confirmed by multiple reports here.
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Examples of it have even popped on BITOG.
Yes, that is what I meant by “here.”
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