Amsoil SSO 23,032 miles 10 months 96 Lexus SC400

[Seb]

Little background, this is my dads daily driver. Mostly 50/50 city/highway driving. Oil was run from June 14, 2010 to April 24, 2011. Added 5 ounces of make-up in Feb. Oil Filter was a over-sized Amsoil Eao34. I wanted to go 1 year but this is the first run with SSO on a car with over 100,000 so Amsoil does recommend to drain at 17,500. But it looks like it held up very well going past that mark. Sample 1 was PP 5w30 ( here) Currently the car has SSO (bought it just before AZO was released) and same oil filter.

 

[Steve S]

Ideal operating conditions for the syn oil and a nice engine! See if you can lower the Si, if possible.

 

[addyguy]

Both results are very, very good. Viscosity stability over 23k miles is especially impressive. Good show!

 

[The motor guy]

check the air filter

 

[ChiTDI]

Good results for the PP run of 13k too!

 

[ericthepig]

Love the long OCI w/ UOA. Thanks for the post!

 

[Artem]

You've got brass in the pants. That's a crazy long oil run. Thanks for the post

 

[Pablo]

Originally Posted By: motor_oil_madman
check the air filter


Why?

OP - nice run. Keep it up.

 

[SLCraig]

Love the SSO..

Great car BTW, always loved those SC400's.

 

[slalom44]

Nice report. Ya gotta love that SSO. It'll be interesting to see how AZO holds up for these long OCIs compared to SSO.

 

[Norm Olt]

Looks like those multiple gallons of 5w30 PP & SynPower I bought at around $2.50+ per quart (after rebate) are gonna' last me a long, long time if your results for 13K on Sample 1 are typical!

The SSO seems to be a very fine product but I don't think I can go 23K without changing my oil & filter.

Cheers!

p.s. How many total miles on this SC400, BTW?

 

[demarpaint]

Nice report!

 

[Seb]

Thank you all for the positive feedback

. I do check under the hood time to time (oil level, etc) and the airbox tubing is tight and the air filter is suprisingly clean. I do use a clean paper towel to clean and check the dipstick, would that cause it?

Originally Posted By: Norm Olt

p.s. How many total miles on this SC400, BTW?

Its 145,622.

 

[rprx]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing that long OCI UOA report.