I finally decided to hop on the VRP "trend". Many of you are using it with great success to solve various engine problems (oil burning, noises, sludge removal etc). I am using VRP because it has been out for a while now and has shown itself to be a fantastic general use oil in addition to actually doing the cleaning it is advertised to do. Myself and many others thought at first that this was a "use it, get rid of it" type of oil. An oil that would cause problems if used long term, an oil that was only meant for cleaning and should be no longer used after the cleaning is done. But with the many UOAs and tons of engines this oil has been used in that doesn't seem to be the case. To this day I have not heard of VRP causing an engine failure. That alone is quite impressive and shows the amount of engineering into this product. A mass produced mass marketed oil targeted at cleaning your engine... without destroying your engine and ending up being a total product failure with lawsuits on top of lawsuits for the manufacturer.
Full disclosure: I'm not using this oil to solve oil burning. If you're looking for another VRP success story you can find that in many other posts on here. I'm using VRP for the "Protect" rather than the "Restore" function. My Cadillac CTS with the 3.6 LFX uses no oil in a 5K OCI. My most recent OCI prior to VRP was with M1 ESP 0W30. A fantastic oil that probably does a good bit of what VRP does.
My goal with this oil is simple: How far can I go before this engine gets tired? I'm never selling this car, and at 62 I'm in no shape physically or mentally to swap an engine on a modern car with a million little connectors. If this oil can reverse deposit buildup, in theory it should be able to prevent them from ever occurring if used on a clean engine.
I used to be in the camp of "If you're doing 5K OCIs pick any full synthetic and you're good to go". I've read countless stories on here of people doing that and still ending up with oil burning and other issues. A 5K OCI with FS oil is fantastic maintenance, why are people still ending up with oil burners and other issues? VRP to the rescue it seems. It is clear that this is the most revolutionary oil we've seen in decades.
The purpose of this thread is to track my use of VRP with 5K OCIs as my engine climbs into high mile territory (I'm aware 75k+ is technically high miles but for many of us BITOGers high miles starts much later).
What happens with long term use of this oil? Are problems on the horizon or is this engine going to hit 200k and beyond with spotless internals and 0 oil consumption? We'll have to find out...
Full disclosure: I'm not using this oil to solve oil burning. If you're looking for another VRP success story you can find that in many other posts on here. I'm using VRP for the "Protect" rather than the "Restore" function. My Cadillac CTS with the 3.6 LFX uses no oil in a 5K OCI. My most recent OCI prior to VRP was with M1 ESP 0W30. A fantastic oil that probably does a good bit of what VRP does.
My goal with this oil is simple: How far can I go before this engine gets tired? I'm never selling this car, and at 62 I'm in no shape physically or mentally to swap an engine on a modern car with a million little connectors. If this oil can reverse deposit buildup, in theory it should be able to prevent them from ever occurring if used on a clean engine.
I used to be in the camp of "If you're doing 5K OCIs pick any full synthetic and you're good to go". I've read countless stories on here of people doing that and still ending up with oil burning and other issues. A 5K OCI with FS oil is fantastic maintenance, why are people still ending up with oil burners and other issues? VRP to the rescue it seems. It is clear that this is the most revolutionary oil we've seen in decades.
The purpose of this thread is to track my use of VRP with 5K OCIs as my engine climbs into high mile territory (I'm aware 75k+ is technically high miles but for many of us BITOGers high miles starts much later).
What happens with long term use of this oil? Are problems on the horizon or is this engine going to hit 200k and beyond with spotless internals and 0 oil consumption? We'll have to find out...
