NOTE From Blacksonte: Is it time to change the oil? Not unless you want to. But you certainly wouldn't have to. You're up to 9,584 miles on the oil, but metals have either held steady or increased only slightly. Iron is the one metal that increased, but that's to be expected with a longer run, and it doesn't hurt anything at low levels like this. No contamination was found and the TBN of 2.0 still shows active additive left. Go ahead and put another 2,000-3,000 miles on this oil and check back to see how much longer you can go. Great report. No problems found.
Mobil 1 0W20 With Bosch Distance Plus oil filter. Oil sample was collected using pump purchased from Blackstone. Oil is till in car, I'm planning to run it until car reaches 90K miles. That will be a little over 10K on oil. Beginning next oil change, I'm going to switch to M1EP 5W20 and change every 10K. That's a conservative but not excessive straegy.
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OIL M10W20 Unit Avg
MILES IN USE 9584 ------
MILES 89230 -------
SAMPLE TAKEN 3/17/13 --------
ALUMINUM 2 2
CHROMIUM 0 0
IRON 20 18
COPPER 1 1
LEAD 0 1
TIN 0 0
MOLYBDENUM 85 246
NICKEL 0 0
MANGANESE 1 0
SILVER 0 0
TITANIUM 0 0
POTASSIUM 2 5
BORON 37 46
SILICON 20 20
SODIUM 19 6
CALCIUM 1171 1661
MAGNESIUM 813 538
PHOSPHORUS 649 797
ZINC 743 871
BARIUM 0 0
should be
INSOLUBLES 0.3 < 0.6
WATER 0 < 0.1
FLASHPOINT ºF 405 >385
SUS VIS 210ºF 2.7 46-56
cSt @212ºF 8.08 6-9.4
TBN 2.0 >1.0
Mobil 1 0W20 With Bosch Distance Plus oil filter. Oil sample was collected using pump purchased from Blackstone. Oil is till in car, I'm planning to run it until car reaches 90K miles. That will be a little over 10K on oil. Beginning next oil change, I'm going to switch to M1EP 5W20 and change every 10K. That's a conservative but not excessive straegy.
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OIL M10W20 Unit Avg
MILES IN USE 9584 ------
MILES 89230 -------
SAMPLE TAKEN 3/17/13 --------
ALUMINUM 2 2
CHROMIUM 0 0
IRON 20 18
COPPER 1 1
LEAD 0 1
TIN 0 0
MOLYBDENUM 85 246
NICKEL 0 0
MANGANESE 1 0
SILVER 0 0
TITANIUM 0 0
POTASSIUM 2 5
BORON 37 46
SILICON 20 20
SODIUM 19 6
CALCIUM 1171 1661
MAGNESIUM 813 538
PHOSPHORUS 649 797
ZINC 743 871
BARIUM 0 0
should be
INSOLUBLES 0.3 < 0.6
WATER 0 < 0.1
FLASHPOINT ºF 405 >385
SUS VIS 210ºF 2.7 46-56
cSt @212ºF 8.08 6-9.4
TBN 2.0 >1.0
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