NextGen MaxLife 10W30, 7,659 OCI, 02 Toyota Seq

[chinee]

Valvoline NextGen Maxlife 10W30

Haven't had a UOA done in years, since 2007. Not bad for a 10 1/2 year old truck with over 260K miles... right?

I've also inserted the UOA history below.

Feedback anyone?

 

[Hermann]

Pretty darn good for used oil.

Great UOA

 

[FZ1]

Don't get much better than that. Nice presentation,thanks.

 

[dave1251]

Boring UOA. That is not a bad thing but a good thing. Keep her topped off and 10K is easily obtainable.

 

[HTSS_TR]

Nice report, I wouldn't go much beyond 8.5k miles with TBN was 2.0 after 7600 miles.

 

[147_Grain]

Excellent wearing engine over time. What has your driving style been over the years?

 

[tinmanSC]

Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Nice report, I wouldn't go much beyond 8.5k miles with TBN was 2.0 after 7600 miles.

I would give the opposite advice. 2.0 is OK, 1.0 is low. Or so Blackstone says.... Since TBN is not linear, 2.0 -> 1.0 could take a while. I'd say go longer with numbers like that. This UOA is superb.

 

[dave1251]

Also if the OP goes longer he should add a top off oil. I doubt the TBN would drop in half in 800 miles.

 

[randomhero439]

Gorgeous engine

 

[chinee]

Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Nice report, I wouldn't go much beyond 8.5k miles with TBN was 2.0 after 7600 miles.

This is the wife's ride, although she's not a "racecar driver", she's pretty aggressive with rabbit starts and punching the gas to get around these idiot South Florida drivers. No towing or hauling of large loads, mostly city-type of driving.

I've always tried to keep the OCI at 7K for dino and 10K for synth, although I've run over both OCIs occasionally. This engine seems to be a keeper (knock on wood).

I am pleased with the Sequoia, and the Valvoline; I think I'll stick with both for a while longer. I will likely think about extending the OCI to 8,500.

 

[fdcg27]

I guess if you consider the virtual absence of wear metals to be "not bad", I'd agree with you.
This is a great UOA.
I'd be happy with Nextgen Maxlife in this engine as well.
I'd say that this Toy has done you proud.
It owes you very little at this point, but there appears to be nothing bad happening with the engine, to the extent that a UOA would show it.
Be sure and show us the 300K UOA.
That should be in the late winter of 2015, at the rate this thing has been driven.

 

[Art_Vandelay]

Originally Posted By: chinee
No towing or hauling of large loads, mostly city-type of driving.


7,659 miles of mostly city driving with no make-up oil. This stuff is better than I thought. The flashpoint (435F) of NextGen is higher than Pennzoil and Mobil 1 full synthetics? Wow.

 

[surfstar]

Originally Posted By: Art_Vandelay

This stuff is better than I thought. The flashpoint (435F) of NextGen is higher than Pennzoil and Mobil 1 full synthetics? Wow.


ML have always been robust oils, but I think this is one of those super low-wearing Toyota V8s, too. Could throw anything in them and get great #s.

 

[FFeng7]

Thank you for posting those UOA's. I think Gus Maxlife is a great product and to me it seems to have performed as well as some of the full synthetics from your table in terms of the wear metal levels.