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Check EVERYTHING before you travel, you will be more than fine. Cooling most important, change fluids more often, get gauge array, if not already equipped. Go slow on grades, and use rpm and ratio to get up hills. Sounds less mechanically friendly to our ears but much better for equipment...

Yes but without the various first change UOA around here, some of us would not have a suspicion that I do at least, that the factory oil is often not the first fill, and there was some short but effective running in done before the car was given to its new owner, as the oil is not overly...

This oil is a pretty weak offering for Valvoline. I hope they revise it soon. VR1 10w30 is better for this.

The only one? Ha. Hahaha. Hahahahahaha.

Ya. The moly formula and amount is “carefully chosen” for this oil.

Thanks for posting your first change. The people that say it’s not necessary for a short initial change are painting with a broad brush. Some engines show that the factory fill was not the first fill with an UOA that looks very clean. Others, like yours, definitely looks to be first fill. I am...

Ah, science. There’s no evidence either for the inverse. It’s just something that makes people feel better to not do early changes.

This one definitely looks like first fill. Lots of interesting metals and moly.

I see this as a great engine/ usage for HPL 40w. Anyone else? @Hohn ?

Interesting that not as much moly as we see in imports. Brings up some fun speculation. When high moly is present: Assembly lube? In the full itself? Is it really the first fill? Is this not the first fill?

Belgian Castrol 0w-40.

Here's the previous reports on this engine: 1 Quaker State Euro 5w40 2 Mobil 1 0w40 SP

Yes, thank you. Picked the wrong file. Good lookin' out! :)

Sample 6 is new API SQ variant. This is the second oil change interval with SQ. Switched to Valvoline Restore and Protect so will post this soon. All other samples were Quaker State Full Synthetic 5W-30 SP. #4 was a concern, there was no explanation found yet for it. This engine and usage...

Three posts and again missing what I said. Man oh man. I never argued in favor of LSjr summing metals. LOL, Look at my post. I especially enjoyed, "We can, and shall, be better than that." Wow! All the best, fellas. I'm out of this one.

Disrespect the staff? You must be joking.

Placeholder in case mods remove my post because of someone's sensitivity.

*Sigh* I guess you missed my earlier post. For your convenience I reposted it above. And, again, the meaning of my later post. And again, and again, and again. Many of you are very intelligent men, likely more than myself. Yet the same arguments are used when I bring this up, proving my...

Some people can be very reasonable. In a previous job, one of our delivery guys had a new SubZero fridge fall off the truck lift deck in a customer’s driveway. That was a problem. The real problem was that the Lady of The House was there, and she tried to get under it and catch it. I took the...

My point, as always is not intended at all philosophical, but you can argue that if you want, but that is again missing the forest for the trees again in my view. It's not a lack of interest, its that the scope and content of any response I get from the usual suspects it is clear to me (and...