After seeing this I was curious, so called a couple of Valvoline quick service places near me and they said they do have Valvoline Restore and Protect 0w20, 5W-20 and 5W-30.
There is one near by me and I'll call them tomorow.
There’s one near my place that has had Valvoline Restore and Protect for even longer than it has been available in stores in Canada actually.
Yeah I just drove by a Valvoline oil change place and on their billboard out front it read “Now offering Restore and Protect”
What was the viscosity in the used oil analysis at 100C? That's all that matters, not your perception of it being extremely thin.
How do you know it wasn’t fuel or water contaminated as you said? I absolutely believe you when saying you never seen oil do that before, but curious how you can say it was thinner and it wasn’t because of fuel dilution or some thing else. Did you have an oil analysis done?
I can't guarantee no fuel contamination but I am confident there was none. I have seen fuel contamination many times over my 40 years of doing maintenance. Oil had no signs of it. No fuel smell. No fuel diluted feel. Engine it came out of has no known issues. Oil level was exactly where it should have been at that drain milage.
Any xW-20 or xW-30 is going to look like it's "water thin" when draining it hot shortly after shutting down the engine at full operating temperature.
Very rarely do I send oil to lab for analysis. Occasionally I will send oil from construction equipment in, but rarely light duty truck oil.
It looks and behaves thin, but not this thin.
Highly doubt the viscosity sheared that much from being used for 4000 miles in a low revving V8. People who do used oil analysis on Valvoline Restore and Protect show little shear down in viscosity. Like mentioned by others, only a used oil analysis could confirm.
Oh how odd.
