Looks better than the engine on my truck! Previous owner of the engine was on the lifetime oil change plan.
have you checked your Coolant Temperature Sensor? do your engine oil smell gasoline?Changed the valve cover gasket a few days ago. Car runs fine but consumes oil. This is what under the valve cover looks like at 224,000 original miles.
Oil changes every 3k with Mobil 1 Full synthetic or for a whole I was running Shell Rotella T6.
Kinda disappointed it wasn't cleaner. Thoughts? And what do yours look like?
Nice and clean Audi engine .Here is my honda engine run by euro 0w-30 and 0w-40 at 180k km.Not a valve cover but here is the pcv valve being changed on my Audi A4 at around 80k miles. Mostly castrol 0w40 on 5k oci. I was pleased with the top end condition
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And valve cover off my 2012 transit connect at 180 k miles with whatever oil was around at 10k ociView attachment 152555
You have to understand, this is an oil site, we like to see “spotless” under a valve cover. Yours definitely isn’t THAT. But I wouldn’t feel bad, my daughters 2008 Honda CRV looked a little like that at 120,000 miles when I adjusted the valves. At 180,000 now, I’m sure it looks a lot closer to what your engine looks like. And those are great engines. Some engines just have high spots where the oil tends to collect and varnish, I think these are those engines.Looks typical. I got berrated last week for the condition of my 2010 Accord with 245k
Yeah, I think I would try the same if my engine was dirty. I may end up just trying HPL anyway based off all the good things I hear about it. I like companies with owners that will actually communicate with customers, it sounds like they are that type of company.It seems HPL is highly regarded here as of late for cleaning the sludge. I may try that. I have an oil change coming up at 225k. (224.7k now)
If I do proceed with it, I plan on removing the valve cover again for a before/after.
PCV swap on my Sportwagen around 85K. Most Liquimoly oils with multiple rounds of their Engine Flush. 5-7K OCIs. HPL for some of this with their EC.
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