I bought the Mini in March this year with 2500 miles on it and put on another 1000 miles before the lockdown. I would not normally change the oil so soon, but the lockdown provided an opportunity to do an early change to Shell Helix Ultra 0W30 ECT C3 (LL-04) for which I have commissioned and posted a VOA - see it here
The oil looks to me like a 0W20 with high VI as noted in the UOA comments. There is one measurement which gives serious concern and perhaps this early oil change is fortunate - it won't take you long to spot it. Imagine running this for the full OEM / car computed OCI which would likely have been another 4000+ miles. It is like this is some special thin run-in fluid with minimum additive pack without the OEM requirement for an early oil change. Anyone else come across this before?
The oil is high in Molybdenum and zero Boron so this does not look like Shell to me - the VOA and UOA I've seen for most Shell GTL oils are low in moly and at least 50ppm boron.
The oil looks to me like a 0W20 with high VI as noted in the UOA comments. There is one measurement which gives serious concern and perhaps this early oil change is fortunate - it won't take you long to spot it. Imagine running this for the full OEM / car computed OCI which would likely have been another 4000+ miles. It is like this is some special thin run-in fluid with minimum additive pack without the OEM requirement for an early oil change. Anyone else come across this before?
The oil is high in Molybdenum and zero Boron so this does not look like Shell to me - the VOA and UOA I've seen for most Shell GTL oils are low in moly and at least 50ppm boron.