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Minor necro bump: I was at Meijer the other day getting a filter for my car and saw all the Ultra Guards marked as clearance, which is generally a sign something has been discontinued. Ended up switching back to a Motorcraft filter (I own a Ford). Their (Fram's) website doesn't have the UG that...

Fair enough. Out of all the samples I've sent since 2020, only 1-2 had 'acceptable' fuel dilution. I don't know if it's just a fact of life with DI turbo engines, this engine family, or if mine is a special case. Would it explain the oil consumption issue if it was?

*I believe the shearing is ostensibly due to fuel dilution, which has cropped up in every sample I've taken, and likely has been a thing for this engine ever since I bought it. Dunno why that posted like that.

I believe the

No, same viscosity. I was running the 'regular' Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30. I'm aware, but I'm not a fan of fixing what ain't broke. The 5k interval seems to be working just fine, so why change things? I will say that if it wasn't for the apparent consumption (and I had some kind of number for...

I didn't ask about extended oil change intervals; I never do. If I wasn't (unnecessarily) paranoid about the apparent consumption, I might've tried it. I get TBN analysis done more out of curiosity than anything else.

My friends think I'm nuts for continuing to have UOA's done. Maybe they're right. Either way, nothing abnormal with this one, much like the previous ones. The coolant loss I was worried about turned out to be due to a combination of a slight leak off the thermostat housing and a very small leak...

Will consider. That might also explain why my long term fuel trim is showing a slight lean condition (normally hovers around 10 at idle and 5 under load, while short term fuel trim stays more or less at 0).

Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30. I usually try and take samples with the engine reasonably, but a 15 mile drive is difficult to do when I'm at work.

87, for the most part. I have occasionally run 93 in this car , with mixed results. The problem is that in my neck of the woods, most Shell retailers (I only run Top Tier gas in this thing and I like Shell fuels) like to charge a dollar more for premium over regular, so it's sometimes hard to...

5.7 quarts (nominally) of Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30. Last couple fills have been 6 quarts (3 tenths over spec doesn't seem like it hurts anything, plus the dipstick design on this engine is a little odd IMO).

I've been sharing the car with my folks since April of this year; they're between cars at present so they use mine when needed; before that my per week mileage was about ~200 or so; now it's about double that. Hopefully that won't be the case for much longer.

Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30. I have no idea what the PO was putting in (bought used from Carmax with 38k on it) but I'm guessing they used reasonably good stuff if the metals are as low as they are.

The Ford IOLM counts down from 10,000 miles or so every time it is reset; normally shows 50% every time I change it. I like to change it every 5k because my commute does involve stop-and-go driving. You aren't the first person on here to tell me that I could try extending the interval, but I'm...

Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30 is the only other oil I've used in this car since I got it; I worked at a shop that used Pennzoil products at the time so that part was a no brainer (IMO). I changed shops earlier this year so that access went away, and since the UP is marketed as a step up from the...

I switched to Pennzoil Ultra Platinum for this OCI, hoping that the increased protection they advertised might help resist the fuel dilution that I keep seeing on UOAs; it would appear that I was only partially successful in that. I had mentioned keeping an eye on the coolant level in my notes...

It was built at Valencia. The Cleveland-built 2.0s (which are technically second gen engines) didn't go into he Fusion until MY 2017, when the refresh came online.

Yeah. I worked at a chain that used Pennzoil products, so I got a nice discount on oil changes. This was my last use of the regular Pennzoil Platinum, though. I switched to the Ultra Platinum 5W-30 for the current OCI; I wanted to see if it would be more resistant to the fuel dilution.

After about a week or so. It drops gradually over the course of a given OCI.

The reason this OCI was longer than my normal(ly OCD) 5k miles was because I was more or less right up on the 5k mile mark when I left for my trip to TOTD; I had briefly contemplated changing the oil before the trip, but I wanted to see what a run to and from the Dragon would do to the oil, plus...