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- Valvoline Restore and Protect 2003 Tahoe 5. 3 228,000 miles initial . . .
Thought I'd offer my experience to date with 5w-30 Restore and Protect A little vehicle background: I have a 2003 Tahoe 5 3 with approx 228k miles It was dealer maintained, CarFax confirmed, up until 197k miles when I purchased it I did change the valve cover gasket after purchase and the
- 2 Valvoline Restore Protect tests | Page 12 | BobIsTheOilGuy
Those products would be - BG, Valvoline Premium Blue Restore, Amsoil Engine flush etc "It can take up to 4 ", is incorrect Valvoline states four or more " *Piston deposit removal when used as directed for four or more consecutive oil changes at standard maintenance intervals based on adapted sequence IIIH testing "
- 2 Valvoline Restore Protect tests | BobIsTheOilGuy
I never thought much about Valvoline's fairly new Restore Protect oil until The Motor Oil Geek recently posted a video on it Once I saw his video, I did a bit more research on that oil and saw a couple reports of reduced oil consumption and such, but no before and after pics, so I decided to
- Valvoline R P Oil Burner Test Results | BobIsTheOilGuy
35k-100k miles Valvoline EP 5w30 100k-110k Amsoil SS 5w30 110k-130k Valvoline R P 5w30 Results with R P: 1st oci=no change 2nd oci= no change (almost gave up) 3rd oci=added 1 2 qt at 2k miles, 1 2 qt at 4k miles! Used a little over a quart in 5k mile oci 4th oci=added 1 2 quart at 3k miles and used a total of less than 3 4 quart in 5k mile oci
- Valvoline Restore Protect | Page 124 | BobIsTheOilGuy
Valvoline historically has always been about the OEM drain interval Roger England said they have all the engine testing capability, the chemical lab, chemical analytics Working with the lab in India, it's synthesized and scaled up to production I wish people applied the same level of skepticism to other brands
- Valvoline Restore Protect | Page 126 | BobIsTheOilGuy
I'm surprised that somebody or some competitor hasn't 'reverse engineered' VRP to find out what the magical cleaner is Reverse-engineering is of little use if the thing is patent-walled layers and layers deep Most likely this is a third party formula, for which Valvoline paid, and which it
- Valvoline Restore Protect 5W-30 VOA | BobIsTheOilGuy
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- Synchromesh: Valvoline Vs. Pennzoil | BobIsTheOilGuy
Unfortunately Valvoline doesn't offer many details about the additives in their Synchromesh product, but they state that it meets GL-4 I like that Pennzoil offers such transparency but still find it odd that they don't apply a GL-4 label, given that this fluid is said to meet that standard
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