lindermant
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Have you seen a factory fill UOA where the wear metals are not higher than the universal averages?
Have you seen a factory fill UOA where the wear metals are not higher than the universal averages?
Yeah, I know that. But it's also run on a full synthetic and BMW has been doing it for more than 10 years. Honda has not.quote:
Think of the many BMWs and Mercedes that go 13-15K on the OEM fill before getting their first oil change, and none have had negative effects.
Knew that, too.quote:
I did run the factory fill for 10k miles... you're reading my UOA
There was an article at Lube Report last September about Nippon Oil building a blending plant in Alabama to provide bulk factory-fill oil to Asian automakers building cars and light trucks in the U.S. The article listed Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota as users of Nippon Oil that was currently contract provided by toll blenders in the U.S. So much for the persistant assumption that since overpriced "Honda" brand motor oil at the stealerships is supplied by ExxonMobil, that's what goes into the engines on the assembly line...quote:
Originally posted by Jaybird:
BTW...what is the factory fill?
The 7.9 cSt measurement is a pretty good indication it was 5w20 installed at the factory.quote:
vis sus@210 52.2