I really liked Valvoline, good quality, reasonble price.
Valvoline Restore & Protect or Pennzoil Ultra Platinum are also great oils to run and clear up and baked on sludge.
Buy Valvoline oil, and maybe it's a good time to switch to 5w-30 in it.
Prolube is trash used motul and my top speed increased by almost 10 on all gears on my d250
I've been running 8100 Power 5w30 for the last two changes, every 3000 miles, and the aced the initial Blackstone test.
I've been using the x-clean EFE every 3k miles forever now an am tuned on full e85 now for 30k miles besides the factory valve tube seal leaking they fixed at 14k miles once but that's due to 23' errors. Now am thinking did I use the wrong one hahaha but am 30k miles deep in my use never anything oil that the efe in mine.
Using Motul (8100 5w-40 initially then 0W-40) since 8 years in my Honda City '09 and I replace engine oil myself every year. Engine is smooth and gives decent mileage. Never faced any issues
Upping your oil change intervals to 5000kms wouldn't be a bad idea. I use motul 5w40 and haven't had issues
My last [Blackstone-labs.com](http://Blackstone-labs.com) report came back with 1.8% fuel dilution. 2021 1.5T at 23kmiles, 6800 miles on the oil (0w20 Valvoline R&P).
I use that Valvoline, sometimes throw in random fully synthetic oils I get in bulk from an auction. I feel like it contributed to a rear main seal leak. Thinking of switching to a 5w40
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In March 2026 on PartReview, engine oil VALVOLINE were overall better than MOTUL.
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