How to search for “silver” in used oil analysis

[Impatient]

I saw a recent UOA showing 2 ppm silver. I’ve tried repeatedly to search for used oil analysis where silver is discussed. I’ve tried searching for “silver” and all I get are “Silverado” hits…of which there are waay waay too many. Does anyone know a trick for searching for “silver,” somehow filtering out “Silverado”?

I did find one for a Subaru WRX (or maybe STI) that had 30 ppm, which obviously sounds bad. 99.999% of used oil analysis have zero silver, so I am just trying to learn if a bit of silver is an issue, and what others have seen with single-digit silver.

 

[Hall]

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/s...er&c[child_nodes]=1&c[nodes][0]=3&o=relevance

Use the search option in the upper right, click "Search threads", enter "silver" (without quotes), then select this sub-forum in the "Search in forums" section.

 

[bullwinkle]

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/s...er&c[child_nodes]=1&c[nodes][0]=3&o=relevance

Use the search option in the upper right, click "Search threads", enter "silver" (without quotes), then select this sub-forum in the "Search in forums" section.

If it’s not too short, searching for “Ag” might work too.

 

[fantastic]

I saw a recent UOA showing 2 ppm silver. I’ve tried repeatedly to search for UOA’s where silver is discussed. I’ve tried searching for “silver” and all I get are “Silverado” hits…of which there are waay waay too many. Does anyone know a trick for searching for “silver,” somehow filtering out “Silverado”?

I did find one for a Subaru WRX (or maybe STI) that had 30 ppm, which obviously sounds bad. 99.999% of UOA’s have zero silver, so I am just trying to learn if a bit of silver is an issue, and what others have seen with single-digit silver.

One of the labs I use states:

"Bearings, silver solder. Also indicator of coolant-especially when glycol is indicated."

 

[Hall]

If it’s not too short, searching for “Ag” might work too.

I believe that would be too short. I think the site has trouble with 3-letter searches, not to mention 2-letters.

 

[Impatient]

I should have told you my original search method. After choosing the sub-forum (e.g. Oil Analysis-general questions and comments, or Used Oil Analysis - Gasoline), I am presented with a “Quick Search” field I can fill in for searches. Do that one (re UOA -Gasoline), and you get every Silverado’s UOA. so @Hall suggestion, does do better…thanks…. But, I just retried his approach, but used “advanced search” option, and, chose UOA -Gasoline forum, and, well, now we are getting somewhere. I’ll get back to y’all if I see something interesting. The best thing I just now saw…somewhat reassuring, is that user Fantastic had a 1 ppm silver reading once, then gone by next UOA. So it could be a fluke on the report that triggered me as well…anyway, back to the silver rabbit hole.