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My UOAs of Edge 5w30 have titanium in them too, as recent as my last one a month or two back

Half a quart oil consumption in so few miles is still unusually high

That would thing is consuming a quart of oil after so few miles? I had that at that mileage in a pentastar, I have not seen that in a coyote or EB before.

I've been using a K&N VF2052 for 5+ years now. I like it just fine, and the refresher spray has a clean new car type smell after using it. I don't think charcoal does anything better than any other standard non-HEPA type of filter. The K&N gets dirty black in a year between cleans so I know it's...

That fuel dilution is totally normal in the 2.3 gtdi. But I do agree the MC blend and full synth oil is pretty weak and does not stand up to the abuse well despite it being Fords own oil. I think 5w40 is a great idea to consider. The race oil for this engine is like 15w50 for gods sake. I’ve...

Fram XG3614 -- Ultra used to be great like 10 years ago, now I guess not? Mobil 1 EP HM 5w30

Mevotech -- TTX is excellent upgrade over stock on trucks & offroad, Mevotech supreme is a go-to on any application Monroe -- utter garbage struts, crap performance and they didn't last KYB -- great performance but less lifetime than OE struts, put on a 2nd pair of them on an ex gf's subaru...

2019 Ranger with the 2.3T/2.3EB at 73k miles, The two coolants in my OM are Motorcraft Yellow (VC13) and Orange (VC3), truck has orange from the factory but it's now discontinued. Got 3 gallons of premix yellow from Rockauto for like $12 each ready to go. It looks like orange and yellow are...

It might be placebo effect, but I think it's a tad quieter. (I've heard howling diffs before and this truck doesn't have them.)

2019 Ford Ranger FX4, 73k miles with 150k mile recommended maintenance interval, did it early. Front diff: Out: factory fill, came out still gold with some shavings on the magnet. Not bad. In: RP MaxGear 75w90 Rear locking diff: Out: factory fill, came out dark black and separated into half...

2019 Ford Ranger FX4 Out: factory original fluid. Came out dark yellow, but not bad. In: 1qt of Prestone DOT4... ....reservoir cap says DOT4 but owner's manual says DOT4 LV. Used my MightyVac to pull from the calipers. The Ford adapter for my Motiv Power Bleeder apparently is the wrong...

5w30 will synth MC oil does not hold up well in my EB either. I don’t use it anymore.

Nice report! Do you have a catch can? I put one on my 2.3 as soon as FP put one out for my 2.3eb application. In the winter months it always fills up with watery gas and surely helps lower the fuel dilution.

I have had change intervals on vehicles get higher wear metals based on the driving. Such as mountain passes or aggressive, acceleration or prolonged high RPM the only thing I can attribute the higher metal on this report for me would be different driving conditions than previous interval.

They do not show virgin oil on the report, the averages are from the same make, and engine model used oil. They usually specify the average change duration which is usually 5000.

Yes, the fluid from the catch can is settled out. The top layer is mostly gasoline and it is dark in color because oil is dissolved in it. The bottom layer looks like water to me with the white slidge being some byproduct. Yes this is the first change interval that had a catch can the entire...

Yes! But would you run double the miles with a TBN of 2.2? Seems like EP is a strong 10k option in my application.

This was Edge EP whereas the last couple prior were regular Edge 5w30 and before that MC full synthetic. The OLM read 0% and went off before 10k on this one all by itself. There was maybe four ounces of gas drained from my catch can over the winter and it stays dry during the summer. That’s...

AFE shows flow graphs of their oiled vs dry filters vs stock paper filters. Oiled flows best and K&N would be about the same.

Same. I’ve used K&N and AFE dry panel filters on all of my cars and never ever had silicone or particulate out of nominal in my UOAs. In fact they’re usually lower than the averages. Let’s say UOAs don’t matter. Furthermore the K&N panel filter in my truck now actually was provided by Ford and...