So I was inspired to do this after seeing a post from @wwillson tearing down a filter while using HPL 5w-20 and I thought you all might find this interesting. Didn't really know where to put this so if I am posting in the wrong section please feel free to move it to the correct location.
I decided to run 1 quart of HPL EC and 4 quarts of Pennzoil Platinum 5w-30 in my wife's 2016 Chevy Malibu 105,000 current miles. Oil was left in for approx. 4,000 miles then drained and replaced with HPL PCEO 5w-30.
First 2 photos show a small amount of slurry (for lack of a better word), some hard carbon chunks and the ghost of the filter magnet that I have used with this car since new. The magnet ghost is neither more or less pronounced than previous filters The other 3 are of the filter media cut out after about 6 days of wrapping paper towels around it to remove excess oil. You can see some tiny bits of hard carbon on the media. The majority of carbon fell onto the table during removal.
I decided to run 1 quart of HPL EC and 4 quarts of Pennzoil Platinum 5w-30 in my wife's 2016 Chevy Malibu 105,000 current miles. Oil was left in for approx. 4,000 miles then drained and replaced with HPL PCEO 5w-30.
First 2 photos show a small amount of slurry (for lack of a better word), some hard carbon chunks and the ghost of the filter magnet that I have used with this car since new. The magnet ghost is neither more or less pronounced than previous filters The other 3 are of the filter media cut out after about 6 days of wrapping paper towels around it to remove excess oil. You can see some tiny bits of hard carbon on the media. The majority of carbon fell onto the table during removal.
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