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On the 2019 Blazer I had, the 2.0l turbo 4cyl spec'd 0W20, the 2.5l NA 4 cyl was 5W20 and the 3.6l NAV6 was 5W30.

Does it come in discreet packaging?

If you're going to Menards anyway, you can buy almost anything there these days. The selection of packaged grocery items seems to grow every month which is interesting to me because I hardly see anybody buying groceries at Menards.

How your neighbor views your motor oil as you're pouring it in: Mobil 1: Our dentist uses that stuff in his Porsche. Impressive! Kirkland: Value with a touch of style. Bet he grabbed the $5 rotisserie chicken too. Supertech: That motor's gonna puke before he gets two blocks down the street.

THIS is awesome! Thanks for sharing LOL.

There's a big difference between increased wear rates discerned from oil samples, and actual increased engine functional failures. That's what I was referring to. Big picture data on vehicles tells us at least in the US, vehicles are running longer than ever so the combination of lubes...

It's academically interesting, and might be able to generate some oil marketing claims, but how relevant is this to actual vehicle life?

It reminds me of when America's highway shoulders were lined with broken cars due to the Fram (edit - MOD).

My 2004 GM 3.6 had 260hp and averaged about 18 mpg. My 2023 with DI has 310hp and averages 23 mpg. I realize there have been other improvements but the DI along with added compression it allows is the big one.

Wisdom.

That seems reasonable, and for most folks you wouldn't really have the results for a couple years. I wish they would have had this stuff to evaluate back in the days of the Saturn 1.9 engine which would have been a good case study.

I'll let the test drive tell me if there's an operational problem.

Biggest factor on overfill is the typical old school inline trans had a valve body on the bottom of the main case and then the main case itself. So you had a linear fill amount vs oil level for the first part of the pan volume, then it goes quickly non-linear as volume is taken up by valve...

If your state/locality doesn't have emissions inspection, one option is to just keep driving. The cat efficiency calculation doesn't effect the actual air/fuel mixture closed loop operation, that comes from the upstream sensor. BTW congrats on keeping your oil level topped up and your engine...

Shelf space for lubes and coolants shrank significantly when my local WM got the "Store of the Future" remodel. I wonder if the DIY market is fading away?