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Old Oct 29, 2015 | 12:42 PM
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Thoughts on Valvoline oil? Dripped the car, their shop is perfect

I take my old cars there all the time. Any thoughts on their best oil? I always used mobile 1 now for 14k miles. But now that I dropped the car and added a carbon fiber body kit I am considered about doing the oil change at the dealer now. I like Valvoline because I can have great amount of room and I can watch the guys actually work on the car. But idk if I should change from mobile one to Valvoline oil...? Oil is oil right?

I don't mean dripped haha I mean dropped on the title... I'm typing this on my phone
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Old Oct 29, 2015 | 01:23 PM
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Synthetic Valvoline will work just fine. Can always go back to Mobil 1 next change lol
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Old Oct 29, 2015 | 01:41 PM
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oil is just oil...cmon man you know better then that.. the only way to really find out is to send out a sample to blackstone labs and have them run some tests on ur mobil 1 oil then send out a sample after you put some miles on ur Valvoline stuff.
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Old Oct 29, 2015 | 02:59 PM
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Yeah man, i know oil is just oil but everyone is so paranoid when it comes to switching. They say do not. I just wanted to give it one more post to see what people think about it now lol.
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Old Oct 29, 2015 | 03:17 PM
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Valvoline full synthetic is pretty decent from what I've heards
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Old Oct 29, 2015 | 03:56 PM
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^ Then this may be my new oil. After i go into the dealership one more time for my 15k service i will most likely go Valvoline in the next changes. I rather them do the oil change while the car is on the ground than lifting it up in the air and risking damage to the carbon kit.
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Old Oct 30, 2015 | 09:11 AM
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Man our Valvoline instant oil change places here suck a lot. Maybe your actually cares about cars lol but I wouldn't let them lay a finger on my evo lol
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Old Nov 2, 2015 | 01:53 PM
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If Valvoline, I use synthetic VR1 Racing. It has much higher ZDDP than M1, but not too high for cat like some.

I use Lucas Racing only Synth which has crazy high ZDDP ~3000 PPM Zinc, but I removed the cat so I'm not worried.
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Old Nov 3, 2015 | 01:04 AM
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Just make sure its the high zinc one.
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