Valvoline Restore & Protect?

Anyone have any experiences with Restore & Protect?

I just changed my oil yesterday and went with 5w-30 full synthetic Restore & Protect.

As an extra step of caution of caution, I picked up 6 oil filters and will change them every 1000 miles just to make sure the filter doesn’t clog up.

100k miles on mine, wouldn’t think it would be too bad.

 

Why? For what reason do you need to change the filter every 1000 miles on a truck that has 100k miles on it?

 

Shouldn’t have to, but $4.50 for each filter is cheap insurance.

Restore & Protect should be slowly breaking stuff down, super cheap insurance to make sure it doesn’t flood the filter with crap clogging it up, bypassing it and sending stuff unfiltered through engine clogging the oil pick up screen.

Also important, I’m really interested in inspecting the filters to see what they’re catching as it goes.

Granted @ 100k there shouldn’t be that much…

 

After 100k miles, if youve been changing oil every 5k like you should, there shouldn’t be much of any deposits. Even so, whatever is broken down, won’t be solid pieces. The filter isn’t going to catch liquified oil deposits. The heat will turn it back into a viscous liquid that goes right through it. I think you’re trying to reinvent the wheel here.

 

Guess I should said that, I recently bought this truck, oil was consistently changed at 9-10k miles, which I never would’ve done.

Also, I understand how it’s supposed to work, but there are instances in other engines of it overwhelming the filter and clogging the pickup screen.

Rather than discussing obsessive cheap and quick filter changes, I just wondered what experiences others might have had with Restore & Protect.

 

Does it burn any oil?

 

It doesn’t from what I’ve noticed in the 2500 miles I’ve owned it.

I don't like that the oil was changed on a 10k interval its whole life though.

Carfax does show that differential fluid was changed appropriately.

Doesn’t show any coolant or transfer case changes.

Coolant looks fresh, I changed it anyway.

As soon as my buddy’s shop has a free lift he’s gonna let me change differential and TC fluids, will also drain and fill tranny.

 

If it doesn't burn oil or show any sludge, I wouldn't really worry about doing anything special. Just change it at the interval you like and go on with it. Everything else you're doing is great. Always good to get fresh fluilds in when you buy a used car. 100k is nothing for these trucks. I got mine at 120k and I did everything on it so far, except the tranny. Ordered 15 qts today since it's on sale, and will do 3 drain and refills and I'll be good to go for another 60k.

 

My buddy just ran it for 10k in his Tacoma coming up on 200k with 10k OCIs. Pretty wild how well it cleaned up the internals you can see under the fill cap. I’ve got it in my 3rd gen runner currently. Only a couple thou on it. Also it’s intentionally designed to work slowly as to not overwhelm a filter in 5k.

 

If you’re doing the rest of the fluids at 100K, don’t forget the power steering and brake fluids. Everyone forgets the power steering and brake fluids…

And spark plugs. And serpentine belt. And PCV valve.

 

Yes. Brake fluid is always forgotten and it's job is so important.

 

I’m on my first oil change with R&P 5w30 and I’m at 96k miles. And I just changed the filter at the first 1000 miles on the oil. I went through every pleat and hardly found any sediment.

My previous oil change was using Amsoil SS 5w30 for 5k miles and found more crap over that interval.

 

https://www.tundras.com/threads/valvoline-restore-protect.151541/#post-3925105

 

I drop a couple Tide Pods in with my Kirkland oil…

 

Bob himself does this. A hack of greater significance than the nitrogen hack.

 

Welp, I’m 1000 miles into my first run of Restore and Protect. So today I decided to swap out the filter just to see what it looks like.

While we knew it wasn’t necessary, they’re $4.50 at the dealership, so no biggie to look at it.

Good news is the filter is clean as a whistle.

Hopefully that’s an indication that my 100k mile engine is very clean. I wasn’t having any oil burning issues or anything so I wasn’t expecting any issues, more curiosity and being overly cautious than anything.

 

I’m just pissed because I can’t get filters locally for under $5.50…. And we don’t even have sales tax.

 

Valvoline RS and P isn’t that aggressive of a product you would need to change the oil more than 5k miles it was designed to get carbon in the oil with a very small particle size comparable to soot that you’ll find in a diesel engine. Valvoline had mad a product a few decades ago that was more aggressive that was clogging up oil filters this time around Valvoline wanted to make a product that the average consumer could use under normal conditions. I have seen an analysis of a virgin sample and cleansers wise it’s nothing special but from what I have heard Valvoline uses a hybrid molecule to get it to work