2022 Corolla Cross HPL PP 0W8 20,080 Mile OCI

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The oil has a HTHSv of 2 and the oil filter has a 99% efficiency of "only" 30 microns.

So much for that headroom nonsense.
What are you getting at? Other than some oxidative thickening, there’s nothing wrong with the results for this oil in this application.

In fact, the oil is doing exactly as @High Performance Lubricants intended- early in the OCI if this oil was sampled, OP may see a slight drop in VOA viscosity, and then as mileage accumulates there is some thickening. 0.5 ppm Fe/1k miles and all other wear metals nearly half that; OP is likely thrilled with this UOA, as he should be IMO. 👍🏻
 
What are you getting at? Other than some oxidative thickening, there’s nothing wrong with the results for this oil in this application.

In fact, the oil is doing exactly as @High Performance Lubricants intended- early in the OCI if this oil was sampled, OP may see a slight drop in VOA viscosity, and then as mileage accumulates there is some thickening. 0.5 ppm Fe/1k miles and all other wear metals nearly half that; OP is likely thrilled with this UOA, as he should be IMO. 👍🏻
Agreed. It is impressive that he ran a 0w8 in a 0w16 application for 20k miles.

My point was he did it with the (according to some) negative headroom of a HTHSv 2 oil and the far from desirable oil filtering of only 99% at 30 micron.

Btw, be careful about pointing to the UOA since someone will surely request an engine teardown with before and after measurements.
 
Agreed. It is impressive that he ran a 0w8 in a 0w16 application for 20k miles.

My point was he did it with the (according to some) negative headroom of a HTHSv 2 oil and the far from desirable oil filtering of only 99% at 30 micron.

Btw, be careful about pointing to the UOA since someone will surely request an engine teardown with before and after measurements.
I try to police myself to only observing the meaningful data of an OA, the characteristics of the oil itself (along with really excessive iron, potassium, sodium, or fuel). Without trends you can’t make any valid assumptions about wear, and with trends you can only make the assumption if the target engine is comparable to the universal averages to that engine. No wear claims nor tear downs needed! 😉
 
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