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Correct Oil Analyzers is the shell company front owned by Amsoil to market and sell oil analysis services. Polaris Labs is the one that does the actual oil analysis on a Oil Analyzers letterhead on the report. In theory, you could deal direct with Polaris Labs, but they are primarily geared for...

Just keep in mind the cost of the kit includes the oil analysis cost testing built in. No cutting a payment to Oil Analyzers when you send the sample in.

Oil Analyzers/Polaris. I just buy the prepaid kits from Amsoil and pay my own shipping for the kits when I send the sample in but you can also buy kits from Amsoil with prepaid shipping. Paying my own shipping, I can do an analysis with Oil Analyzer for under $35 total and results withing 3-5...

Yeah, I got tired of their waits also and never mind their fuel dilution results is just a guess based off the flashpoint. I watched a video of their operation awhile back and it was still very old school how they handled and processed the samples. A lot of manual handling, logging and just did...

I seem to recall Toyota or Denso aftermarket had a can filter that had similar media like that. Was basically a dense sponge type media. No clue on what the efficiency was.

Sounds like they have gotten a bit better then. I moved on to Oil Analyzers because Blackstone was taking up to 6 weeks sometimes.

FWIW, I bought a $25 Amazon special clock spring for my 2013 Elantra earlier this year and has been fine so far to date. Hyundai has a TSB for my Elantra that gave a 15 year warranty extension on the clock spring that I could have gotten taken care of, but there was risk that if my airbag light...

How long was the turn around for getting the report from when they received the sample?

No to all.

Owned a Honda Ridgeline and am quite familiar with the product.

Aftermarket Band Aid device is not a permanent fix, it is a workaround. Most shops would not deal with such things and expect to stand by and warranty their work.

I am not trying to pick a fight here but you are armchair quarterbacking this. Easy to sit back and pick the fly poop out of the pepper of what somebody should or should not have caught. This forum is full of people that should be running 100% flawless successful car maintenance businesses...

Probably been 20+ years since I have bought any oil at full retail pricing. Always some clearance, sale or rebate going on

Sure, if you want to put ones faith in AI being infallible.

Most general maintenance shops are not keyed in on aftermarket devices like the VCM muzzler.