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Any experience for a winter oil? M1 ESP 0w-30 is C3 rated and so it the 0W-40 which also has the dexos 2 rating.

Originally Posted By: A_Harman Either it was filled with 20-weight oil or the 30-weight sheared out of grade. The V100 number should be at least 9.3 to be a 30-weight. The sample is not showing any fuel, so dilution wouldn't be the cause. Wear metals are OK. I think you did well to change the...

In contrast here is a good report for our Town & County. This has a lot more city and stop and go driving.

Here is the latest UOA and this seems to follow suite with other GM DI engines. I'm going to pull a sample at 4000 and see how it looks. With the weather we have there is no way of not doing a remote start or prolonged warm up, sub 0 highs and a car sitting in the parking lot for 9 hours just...

I just received my second test from Blackstone yesterday. I didn't like the results, to much fuel in the gas and who knows what else. I will post in a bit.

Originally Posted By: qnyla Originally Posted By: hemitruck Originally Posted By: demarpaint First off if you're concerned with your warranty your Wrangler calls for 5W20 not 5W30. Good luck with it! With any luck I'll be ordering a 2014 in a few months. the 2012 wrangler reqiures 5-30...

Has anyone else used Fabco or another company to do the UOA?

I agree on the V100, my old Grand Cherokee had 9.3 with almost 7k miles. The guy I bought it from seemed to know his stuff, but the oil changes were done at the local GMC dealership so they could have grabbed the wrong hose to fill it the last time. I may still use the Fabco SOS program if you...

Here is my first post sorry if it doesn't look correct. I just bought this 2012 GMC Terrain, FWD, 4 cyl with a little over 40,000 miles. No know engine problems but I wanted to do an UOA on the engine. I did this through our local Caterpillar dealer who does the simple SOS report for only $10...