Determining the Proper Oil for Your Engine - Email from Lake Speed Jr

[altaylar]

Looks like a nutrition suggestion coming from pro bodybuilders. Too many oil changes and too many UOA, and I have serious doubt if UOA provides as accurate and statistically informative information as he hopes it to.

Personally, I have never put more than 60K miles on a car, and i have sold most of my cars before 60K mile mark. I don't think they would warrant spending $1K for each car during my ownership to optimize my oil choice this way, even if we assume you could optimize it this way.

Also, dont forget that oil formulations change with time as well. If you found your ideal oil after t years, probably you wont be benefiting from it for too long

 

[buster]

Personally, I have never put more than 60K miles on a car, and i have sold most of my cars before 60K mile mark. I don't think they would warrant spending $1K for each car during my ownership to optimize my oil choice this way, even if we assume you could optimize it this way.

Also, dont forget that oil formulations change with time as well. If you found your ideal oil after t years, probably you wont be benefiting from it for too long

Valid point. This site and guys like Lake really target a very small % of the population. Those more obsessed or interested in the subject of lubrication and maximum engine longevity.

 

[Hohn]

Looks like a nutrition suggestion coming from pro bodybuilders. Too many oil changes and too many UOA, and I have serious doubt if UOA provides as accurate and statistically informative information as he hopes it to.

Personally, I have never put more than 60K miles on a car, and i have sold most of my cars before 60K mile mark. I don't think they would warrant spending $1K for each car during my ownership to optimize my oil choice this way, even if we assume you could optimize it this way.

Also, dont forget that oil formulations change with time as well. If you found your ideal oil after t years, probably you wont be benefiting from it for too long

I can see why someone in your situation wouldn't want to spend money on UOA. After all, that money is better spent paying for the fortune in depreciation costs from having perpetually new vehicles.

But many people are keeping their vehicles for a much longer time now because it's more cost-effective to do so. The average age for a passenger car in the USA is now 14 years. That's the AVERAGE.

That data strongly suggests that the BITOGER trying to keep the vehicle alive to 300k miles is not at all the outlier, but rather the person living large on perpetually young vehicles is in fact the one that is the outlier.

https://www.bts.gov/content/average-age-automobiles-and-trucks-operation-united-states