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'20 Jeep Grand Cherokee 36K miles on vehicle. 8K miles on oil and filter. Oil was Amsoil SS 5w30. Previous Oil was Amsoil 0w20 since 3K miles. Seems to me to be a lot of fine metal particles. Paranoid I'm getting the dreaded camshaft failure. Unfortunately I did not do a UOA on this change...

My wife's friend is looking to replace her 2006 Explorer with 230k on it. It has been requiring more repairs lately and will not pass smog now without a new cat. Her budget is 20K out the door. Something under 100k miles. She would like another Explorer but they seem to be out of the budget...

Or just me...?

OLM at 5%. Fram Ultra Cartridge filter. 10 months. Same oil with Amsoil EaO filter went in. I had a magnetic drain plug on, when I loosened it it got the magnet stuck to the side of the drain hole. The oil was coming out at a manageable rate so I filled the sample bottle from there. I wonder...

I've always been a fan of the Amsoil EA filters. I was dismayed to see that they have outsourced their cartridge filters to China. I decided to brave the "People of Walmart" at the nearest store to check out one of these Fram Ultra's people seem to be so fond of. The filter aisle looked like it...

Car used to be by commuter until I gave it to my youngest son about 5 years ago. It's had Amsoil Oil and Filter since 3k. I settled in to a 10k OCI while I was driving, but my son doesn't drive much so now it gets annual changes. No mechanical problems with this car so far. CVT was drained and...

This came of my son's 2016 Ford Fusion with 1.5L Ecoboost. He had his last oil change at an unspecified quick change place. All I know is he did pay to have a synthetic oil. He said the oil life monitor was about 25% and wanted to change it. We put in Valvoline Advanced Syn. 5w20 with a Wix Xp...