Why are Mobil 1 oil analysis's high in iron?

[synthetic_crazy]

I have noticed while perusing some of the oil analysis's on Mobil 1 products that all have high iron content. Why is this? Surely it can't be "wearing" the internals of the engine. In fact, one of the members here on BITOG has as his signature: "I choose Mobil 1 for my iron supplement"

Not trying to stir anything up here

, just curious...

 

[StevieC]

I took that off... I just did that to poke fun at the naysayers who think the engine will explode because of high-iron.

Do a search this has been discussed at great lengths...

Steve

 

[5sfe91]

i feel a lock coming, or it might just be the 103 degree weather

 

[lipadj46]

Originally Posted By: synthetic_crazy

Not trying to stir anything up here

, just curious...


Yes you are its called trolling.

Do yourself a favor if you do not want to be seen as a troll SEARCH!!! or just look over the past week of posts this has been beat to death. Now hopefully a moderator will just delete this thread soon.

 

[Cup of Joe]

2 UOA just got posted today in the UOA section. If 12ppm is considered high I don't know what to say.

 

[Johnny]

Originally Posted By: synthetic_crazy
I have noticed while perusing some of the oil analysis's on Mobil 1 products that all have high iron content. Why is this?


Depends on your definition of "is".

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted By: lipadj46
Originally Posted By: synthetic_crazy

Not trying to stir anything up here

, just curious...


Yes you are its called trolling.

Do yourself a favor if you do not want to be seen as a troll SEARCH!!! or just look over the past week of posts this has been beat to death. Now hopefully a moderator will just delete this thread soon.


I wouldn't call it trolling. I asked the same thing a while ago, and NOBODY can give a technical answer why and has ZERO data to support their theories. Those are the real trolls IMO.

 

[bepperb]

There doesn't seem to be a strong enough correlation to draw a conclusion.

Two or three months ago someone grabbed a bunch of 5-30 UOA results and plotted them. Interestingly, if you ignored one or two over 50ppm "outliers" the average was the same as anything else. What made those outliers didn't make much sense to me, one was a GMC pickup and one a foreign car IIRC.

 

[d00df00d]

Originally Posted By: Johnny
Originally Posted By: synthetic_crazy
I have noticed while perusing some of the oil analysis's on Mobil 1 products that all have high iron content. Why is this?


Depends on your definition of "is".

Perfect answer.

 

[dkryan]

My 2001 I30 with the VQ30DE engine spit lead like a Gatling gun with every UOA that was performed.

When Blackstone personally telephones you because your lead level is higher than the national debt of the U.S., that's a clue.

The same result was encountered with Dyson Analysis in terms of high lead levels.

Both German Castrol 0w30 and RLI 10w30 SHP-HD reduced those lead levels. Some of those levels may have been due to fuel dilution. Nothing alarming, but higher than I wanted, fuel dilution-wise.

If SOPUS is willing to enter into an "ask and answer" session on BITOG, why not Mobil? I'd love to know why the lead readings are so high (in my engines with my OCIs) using (or used to use long ago) M-1.

 

[apwillard1986]

We went a week this time!!!