Hi all,
In this post, I'd like to share with you all my latest UOA that I just received from Blackstone.
The purpose behind sending this to Blackstone was to 1) to see if my oil has any antifreeze in it (long story, some VRs have porous blocks) and 2) to see how this oil holds up for this long and whether if I can in fact change it once in 2 years if I continue driving it so little. When I was draining the old oil, I felt like I was wasting my money by the way it looked and the report pretty much confirmed it.
I just did my oil change on 8/30/22 at 28,230 miles when I took the sample. I ran Valvoline Advanced for 1,431 miles for one year exactly with the large Nissan oil filter 15208-9E01A; 90% of the time I drove the car in traffic, doing short trips here and there with plenty of time idling.
After an interesting discussion in https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/infiniti-q50-vr30ddtt-cant-make-up-my-mind-on-oil.358148/ I've decided to stick with Valvoline and this time I went with the Extended Protection since the Modern Engine is no longer being offered.
In this post, I'd like to share with you all my latest UOA that I just received from Blackstone.
The purpose behind sending this to Blackstone was to 1) to see if my oil has any antifreeze in it (long story, some VRs have porous blocks) and 2) to see how this oil holds up for this long and whether if I can in fact change it once in 2 years if I continue driving it so little. When I was draining the old oil, I felt like I was wasting my money by the way it looked and the report pretty much confirmed it.
I just did my oil change on 8/30/22 at 28,230 miles when I took the sample. I ran Valvoline Advanced for 1,431 miles for one year exactly with the large Nissan oil filter 15208-9E01A; 90% of the time I drove the car in traffic, doing short trips here and there with plenty of time idling.
After an interesting discussion in https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/infiniti-q50-vr30ddtt-cant-make-up-my-mind-on-oil.358148/ I've decided to stick with Valvoline and this time I went with the Extended Protection since the Modern Engine is no longer being offered.