Saab 9-3 2.8 Turbo V6
My second report on this car I acquired in 2013. I'm glad sodium came down. I had been worried about coolant in oil, but at 10ppm, I think it's fine now.
Blackstone is alerting me to the low viscosity, low flashpoint, and trace of fuel (trace is more than their other reading that they call
The trace of fuel causes the low viscosity and low flashpoint, correct? This is NOT direct injected. What would cause the fuel in just 3,888 miles? I indeed do some short, low speed drives, cruising for fun around cities, but I do quite a bit of 150 mile highway jaunts too (maybe 2-3 times a month).
The previous owner got a bit lazy on maintenance towards the end, the last time I think the dealer used Mobil 1 5w-30 instead 0w-40 and he went 14,000 miles. I would HATE to have seen an UOA on that. There was one 13,000 before that too, probably on 5w-30. The first 30,000 miles was on the correct 0w-40 M1 Could there have been some kind of damage to the engine that causes the high fuel now?
After these initial couple cleaning oil changes, I was perhaps going to start using OLM (maxes at 10k or 1 year, looks like it would have went about 8,500 on my type of driving). However, with the fuel and low viscosity, I'm thinking I should stick to 50 percent OLM, 4,500 miles max or so.
Thoughts?
3,900 Miles on the Oil
75,200 on the engine
Aluminum - 3
Chromium - 0
Iron - 11
Copper - 5
Lead - 0
Tin - 0
Moly - 73
Nickel - 0
Manganese - 1
Silver - 0
Titanium - 0
Potassium - 1
Boron - 139
Silicon - 12
Sodium - 10
Calcium - 2889
Magnesium - 19
Phosphorus - 933
Zinc - 923
Viscosity @ 210F - 62.0
Viscosity @ 100C - 10.79
Flashpoint in F - 375
Fuel - Trace
Antifreeze - 0
Water - 0
Insolubles - 0.1
Thanks.
My second report on this car I acquired in 2013. I'm glad sodium came down. I had been worried about coolant in oil, but at 10ppm, I think it's fine now.
Blackstone is alerting me to the low viscosity, low flashpoint, and trace of fuel (trace is more than their other reading that they call
The trace of fuel causes the low viscosity and low flashpoint, correct? This is NOT direct injected. What would cause the fuel in just 3,888 miles? I indeed do some short, low speed drives, cruising for fun around cities, but I do quite a bit of 150 mile highway jaunts too (maybe 2-3 times a month).
The previous owner got a bit lazy on maintenance towards the end, the last time I think the dealer used Mobil 1 5w-30 instead 0w-40 and he went 14,000 miles. I would HATE to have seen an UOA on that. There was one 13,000 before that too, probably on 5w-30. The first 30,000 miles was on the correct 0w-40 M1 Could there have been some kind of damage to the engine that causes the high fuel now?
After these initial couple cleaning oil changes, I was perhaps going to start using OLM (maxes at 10k or 1 year, looks like it would have went about 8,500 on my type of driving). However, with the fuel and low viscosity, I'm thinking I should stick to 50 percent OLM, 4,500 miles max or so.
Thoughts?
3,900 Miles on the Oil
75,200 on the engine
Aluminum - 3
Chromium - 0
Iron - 11
Copper - 5
Lead - 0
Tin - 0
Moly - 73
Nickel - 0
Manganese - 1
Silver - 0
Titanium - 0
Potassium - 1
Boron - 139
Silicon - 12
Sodium - 10
Calcium - 2889
Magnesium - 19
Phosphorus - 933
Zinc - 923
Viscosity @ 210F - 62.0
Viscosity @ 100C - 10.79
Flashpoint in F - 375
Fuel - Trace
Antifreeze - 0
Water - 0
Insolubles - 0.1
Thanks.
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