" Don't Mean Nuthin". Just break in wear.
2021 M2C S55 with 10k miles; BMW 0w-30 3.5k miles
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I’m not saying you’re wrong, because at this point we don’t know, but I have a hard time believing that a $30k engine, with the best German engineering and likely modern ceramic coatings at least on the skirts would generate this high aluminum as “normal”.
If I were OP, I would do a quick “flush” by using the cheapest oil that meets the specs and doing 1-2 500 mile OCIs to help get any leftover break in materials out, then go back to whatever the “good” choice is and do a full UOA. This will help OP to see if the aluminum was carryover or if it is fresh generation. Obviously OP is going to run his current Motul to some mileage and that UOA may show improvement.
Awesome car, hope this aluminum reading is just an anomaly!
Generally speaking a UOA on a low mileage engine is going to be of little to no value.
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it’s a Used OIL Analysis. Not a used Engine analysis. 
Who cares about the age of the block, we are looking at how the oil held up here. People tend to forget that and are focused on metal particles floating around in the Lube @ Parts Per MILLION.
Nothing wrong with looking at the oil that’s coming out of a new engine to see if it’s within spec and or contaminated.
Well there you go… break-in metals are SLOWLY flushing out as the engine finishes settling in (finally).
And you were at the brink of a panic attack and getting recommendations of a warranty claim
all is well in the land of Combustion Engines again. We can all sleep easy.
The problem with that is some "contamination" could be a result of the engine being low mileage. Take fuel dilution and it's impact on viscosity.
Who cares about the age of the block, we are looking at how the oil held up here. People tend to forget that and are focused on metal particles floating around in the Lube @ Parts Per MILLION.
Nothing wrong with looking at the oil that’s coming out of a new engine to see if it’s within spec and or contaminated.
Beside essentially all oils formulated for the application maintain their viscosity on short oci.
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Panic attack doesn’t begin to explain it, I was on the verge of trading it in, lol!Well there you go… break-in metals are SLOWLY flushing out as the engine finishes settling in (finally).
And you were at the brink of a panic attack and getting recommendations of a warranty claim
all is well in the land of Combustion Engines again. We can all sleep easy.
To my knowledge all bmw dealers in US carry currently BMW LL01FE and BMW LL17FE only
ll04 is not recommend outside of EU due to the still higher level of sulfur in gasoline comparing to EU
For that engine I would keep runing BMW 0w30 LL01FE with shorter OCI than the manufacturer recommends
ll04 is not recommend outside of EU due to the still higher level of sulfur in gasoline comparing to EU
For that engine I would keep runing BMW 0w30 LL01FE with shorter OCI than the manufacturer recommends
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Interesting. I never go past 5000 miles either way, so I guess I'll cut this one short to 3000 miles, which I just did on a NY-FL trip.
No. US fuel is ok now. BMW, AS USUAL, is absolutely sloppy in oil recommendations.
That’s the Motul XCess Gen 2. One would have to believe there are other helpful additives that don’t show here given all the approvals it has while being Group III primarily.
