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Absolutely it is, particularly when you are talking huge amounts of people reviewing the product. I’m 100% sure you, just like 99%of us, pick products based on user reviews.

The problem with your logic is that overwhelmingly users review the product quite positively. If the product was a fluke it would not receive the raving reviews. This is data, one may not necessarily agree with it, but it’s still data. This is where the arguments fall apart, in my opinion...

I see consistent results with LM Ceretek. I have experience building a few engines over the years and I’m not easily fooled. What I consistently see is a smoother running engine, less vibrations and smoother idle, less cold start valve clatter, and improved MPG. I’ve seen this in multiple...

Thank you, this is exactly what I’m looking for regarding the metals. It confirms my suspicion about my elevated tin, aluminum, and copper levels. The tin is part of the Moly package. Ceratec contains a lot of molybdenum as well, at least what from what I understand. Motul euro has no moly in...

No, that’s a VOA for Motul, mine is the far right.

I recently performed a UOA on my fairly new F150 5.0. This was 2900 miles on the oil (Motul 5w-40 X-Cess Gen 2), 4700 - 7600 miles on the engine. I do understand the truck is still breaking-in and it takes some time for wear metals to flush out, I'm mostly interested in seeing is if some of my...

Would it not be a safe assumption that the higher the particle filtration results at 20 microns and up that it would also perform better for the 4 - 14 range? Also, at what point does it become somewhat pointless to care? If ones oil / additives are doing their job to keep wear metals down to...

Are you doing any UOA’s along with this?

Yes, this is what I am thinking too. I also wonder how much some of the metals are additive vs wear.

2023 F150 5.0 tuned on E40. 2900 miles on the oil. This is from 5700 - 7600 miles on the truck, still pretty new. What do you guys think? Wear metals are a bit higher than I expected, but maybe I am still flushing some stuff out. This truck sees lots of short trips / city driving. The additives...

Thank you. 8k miles

2023 Tuned F150 5.0 / e40 Out: at 3k miles on the oil and sent in for a UOA, Motul 5w-40 x-cess gen 2 with Ceratec. Purolator Boss filter In: Amsoil Euro 5w-40. Fram Endurance filter. Also recently upgraded the rear differential cover and added Amsoil severe 75w-90.

I do have a decent amount of short trips

I think I’m going to try 3k for the first UOA.

Correct, flex fuel engine. The oil life monitor does not appear to be connected to the O2 sensors which adjust mapping for flex fuel.