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About 15mins. Good point - the car reached operating temp but only for maybe 3-5 minutes at that point.

Sharing another UOA. Half the trips were freeway miles this time, other half very short trips. Interesting however that there is fuel showing up in it now though..

To answer a couple of questions - 1) Car isn't modified, stock intake stock tune 2) Factory grade recommendation is 5w30 3) Yes, I'm sure i could extend the intervals but those of you familiar w/ the EJ25 turbo and its issues across the years could see why I prefer to shorten the interval. In...

Just sharing another oil change - again using the good old Castrol 0w40. The next UOA will be edge 0w30, I have to use up my stock from circa 2017-18 LL01 era. This gets daily driven about 7-8 mile one way to work everyday, high rpms and WOT runs here and there for good times of course.

I actually wanted to run a 2 year drain interval because of the low miles on the oil but decided just to pull it after 1.5years. Looks like 2 years would be no issue at all. I never used Ravenol before so was afraid of possible oxidation but looks like it did fine. Background: The car typically...

5w30 tpt was always available for me to purchase and I did exactly that, but yea dealer would opt for the lighter weights . It wasn’t always easy to find so I bought bulk when I could.

First one was 0w20, second 5w30 , both BMW TPT (sopus). Yes, wear seems very consistent regardless of weight / type of oil so far. Flashpoint was a beast on the 0w20 TPT UOA though.

Just sharing another UOA, first one on the motul xcess gen 2 5w40. Wear on iron seems consistent , this car does make frequent short trips to the grocery / idles often, but half the miles on this UOA consisted of higher speed 80mph+ desert trips to vegas in 100F+ weather 250miles one way. Not...

forgot to respond to this - I typically run 5k mile drain intervals on all my cars but this one had the motor extended warranty from Subaru per their class action lawsuit with issues pertaining to this motor. If anything were to happen I'd like to show them the running log of 3k mile oil...

I actually suspected that I'd have fuel dilution because of my short 7 mile trips daily to work. Plus lunch hours where I may start the car and drive half a mile to grab food and return, not much time for the car to warm up to temp. This is 90% of my trips, is my daily driven car so it sees...

To answer some questions, the 3k interval is what I follow give or take few hundred miles. Was a bit early this time because I had a day off so decided to just do it. Other than that, has been stock tune its entire life other than a oil catch can. Certainly I can run the intervals longer but at...

Just sharing another sample. Wear is trending very similarly, can't complain about 22 dollar oil per change. Always been a fan of gc/bc edge. Daily driven , about 7 miles each way plus some spirited runs here and there. Not much long highway trips.

I'm running Motul 5w40 Gen 2 Xcess full saps in my B48 right now. Will post the UOA in another month or two when I drain.

Thanks for recommendation, I actually have 5w40 xcess gen 2 in there right now. Went full saps strictly so I can share oil across all my cars , but probably go to xclean eventually. I thought GTL heavy oils were supposedly better with flash points than PAO heavy based on the lower NOACK %?

Sopus 5w30, previous sample was TPT SOPUS 0w20. What is interesting is this 5w30 sample had more long trips than the 0w20 sample, and the 0w20 sample didn't seem to have flash point down like the 5w30.

Interesting thanks for sharing. I too have a 2.0 turbo (b48) that runs about 5k OCI and iron numbers seem to trend similarly here as well. Plenty of short grocery runs , excessive idling (kids napping). I use full saps here and wanted to actually try xclean next or LL04 after my full saps stash...

Interesting how this BMW 5w30 oil sample sheared so much compared to the previous sample which was BMW 0w20. Seems like fuel dilution based on the flashpoint. Lot of idling (napping baby / toddler ) short trips but many small road trips 100 to 300 mile one way this interval. However car had been...

To be honest, no reason in particular except that I've used it for nearly 20 years and ran them on all my cars (literally!). I haven't gotten any for nearly 5 years now because of the great price of Edge 0w40, which makes it unreasonable to get 0w30 for double the price or more. But if both were...

Almost always 21.97 on amazon. Prime shipping as well, typically arrives on my doorstep a day later.. super hard to beat. Blackfriday multiple years in a row I paid 16.37 for each 5quart jug including tax, shipped. I typically will order 4-5 jugs at once at that price if not more. I assume that...