Does anyone other then myself and msparks think we over-analyze UOA reports? I think I read somewhere, and this is very much just common sense, that dirt is your engine's biggest enemy.
Take this scenario, if you have sampled two oils under the same conditions and lets say one oil gave you copper, iron and lead numbers that were 6-12ppm higher for a given interval, do you think it will make that much of a difference down the road if this trend remained FAIRLY consistant? I really think that unless you plan on driving the same car well over 250k miles, it might not really make that much of a difference. I'm sure compression will be somewhat better, but keeping the engine clean, another benefit of synthetics, will be more crucial then worrying about ppm.
[ September 09, 2003, 06:18 PM: Message edited by: buster ]
Take this scenario, if you have sampled two oils under the same conditions and lets say one oil gave you copper, iron and lead numbers that were 6-12ppm higher for a given interval, do you think it will make that much of a difference down the road if this trend remained FAIRLY consistant? I really think that unless you plan on driving the same car well over 250k miles, it might not really make that much of a difference. I'm sure compression will be somewhat better, but keeping the engine clean, another benefit of synthetics, will be more crucial then worrying about ppm.
[ September 09, 2003, 06:18 PM: Message edited by: buster ]