BMW e46 M3 Oil Report. Looking for some opinions.

[waldron80]

Hello Everyone...New here.

I find myself on this website from time to time and decided to post. Below you will see my report from Blackstone. The s54 had a bearing recall that was performed on this car when it had about 20k miles. At first my lead was high but I did some smaller oil cycles and lead went down but then went up recently again with the latest oil analysis where I used redline 10w60 instead of the standard bmw recommended castrol 10w60. Just wondering your thoughts on the trend you see in my report. Thanks for all your insight.

 

[dparm]

Red Line 10w60 is thicker than the BMW 10w60, FYI.

A slight bump in lead is nothing to worry about. People are too quick-to-panic when they see a slight elevation in something. The fact that wear metals are DOWN from the last few reports suggests things are actually doing better.

I would switch back to the TWS and keep on driving.

 

[Brybo86]

fuel lowered the flashpoint a bit too

 

[dparm]

Originally Posted By: Brybo86
fuel lowered the flashpoint a bit too


FP is down, but I would not worry. Doesn't seem to be hurting anything.