Would you consider Valvoline Restore and Protect in your Euro car?
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This is a EA888 from a 2014 Audi A6. It came to me because it was dealer serviced its whole life and began consuming oil at an alarming rate. If I remember correctly, it was almost a quart per 500 miles. The crankcase and sump didn't show signs of neglect, I’ve attached a picture, but the rings were completely plugged. They did have the bad piston and rings design like everyone else around the same time but I thought VW502 was supposed to keep that from happening?
I put the updated pistons in it and it’s still rolling around to this day.
Where has that ever been claimed? It’s designed to clean ring packs and apparently has a track record of doing it. But it’s not a long life oil. I’ll be changing it every 5,000 miles.
so if the engine was neglected VRP wouldn't have prevented the monstrosity you posted. interesting.
But the engine wasn’t neglected and it still suffered from plugged oil control rings. So yeah, there’s a good chance VRP would have prevented this.
That is much like that Honda turbo engine that somebody disassembled while taking a video. It looked very clean except for the pistons and rings. The video was posted on BITOG within the last year. I wonder if the situation is worse with a lot of short trips (low oil temps.) or mostly long trips (higher oil temps.).
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There are many here that REFUSE to accept anything. They'll say this photo isn't supported by any data. I suggest turning this photo into a .pdf and posting it online then it will be more widely accepted.
the photo is not really in question. that generation of Audi 2.0T was well known for horrible oil consumpion. Swapping to the VW piston/ring fixed it. It was a giant recall.
It says nothing about the oil choice or whether VRP would magically solve faulty piston ringpacks.
The photo was in reference to his statement. His statement is what I'm now referencing.
That was on "I Do Cars" on YouTube 94k 2019 Honda Accord 2.0L Turbo Engine
Here’s some more cringe for a bunch of you. Enjoy.
The obligatory BITOG response......It's Totaled.
big Rotella energy in this thread atm
Dirty rings doesn't guarantee oil burning and the photo shows a diesel engine of unknown maintenance history. Aslo the fact that problematic oil burning engines have been fixed using different rings shows the problem wasn't oil related.
That seems true in one sense and false in another. It is true if you make the solid assumption that the particularly problematic rings in that engine provide a very atypical environment for the oil, then conclude that it is not fair to blame an oil for forming those massive deposits. It is false because the deposits are definitely from the oil breaking down and it is well known that different oils have different abilities to resist forming those deposits. The latter view is the one that I take. The conclusion in the former view is what I disagree with. Does that make sense?
That’s not a diesel engine.
Must be old. I've never seen thick deep bowled shaped pistons in a modern petrol engine.
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