Valvoline restore and protect 5W-30

[TJ Jim]

Just for grins and giggles I thought I’d try this stuff out. I have no problems that I’m trying to fix just experimenting. I usually use Dino oil, not really a fan of synthetic oils. They seem to leak more on my Jeep than the Dino.
First unexpected thing I’ve notice is, it immediately made the engine quieter? Mine has always been rattly and loud. Only driven it a few miles so now I’m anxious to see what’s next. 208,000 miles on it by the way.

Just throwing this out if anyone is curious. I’m not an oil snob, don’t care which brand is better. But I am thinking of trying a fram oil filter to see if I can get my mileage up to 60mpg or more!

 

[The4bangertj]

I’ve been running it in my jeep for a few changes. Not expecting it to fix anything but I swapped a new to me motor in with 160k so idk what his oil change intervals were.
I haven’t heard any difference but visually the oil changes were much darker at 3k miles compared to my normal high millage oil changes and taking off my timing chain cover the carbon seems to be very minimal where the oil is hitting often so I think it’s doing something better than other oils.

 

[TJ Jim]

I was a bit nervous putting it in cause my Jeep is the most dependable out of a 2020 ram and a 2018 Audi. Well maybe not the most dependable but easier to fix if a problem happens. The Ram battery left me walking with the 6year old battery and the Audi acted silly when the battery was 6 years old. The jeep let me know it wanted a new water pump after getting back home one hot summer day.
That’s why I’m curious if anything else changes with a few more miles. I was surprised at the amount of noise that went away after the oil change.