I did this UOA largely to satisfy my curiosity. My commute is going to be changing from ~15 miles round trip to ~60 miles round trip so running out to the owner's manual guidance of 7500 miles is going to start becoming desirable. Wanted to see if QSGB would be up to the challenge in my engine. Answer appears to be yes, which is nice since my plan was to run this fill out to at least 7000 miles anyway.
Admittedly this oil probably had it pretty easy since 3k miles of this OCI was done via road trip, so lots of easy highway miles. Also looks like things are breaking in as expected.
I also wanted to do at least one UOA on QSGB as there doesn't seem to be a ton of information on it around here, so here's adding to the collective info this forum brings to the web.
Blackstone had it erroneously labeled as 5w30 instead of 5w20 so they flagged the viscosity, though I'm expecting that clarification will mean all is well. I'm betting they had a hard time reading my chicken scratch.
Anyway, aluminum, iron, copper dropped, and silicon dropped. I'll probably do another UOA once my next OCI is up just to see how things are going, but that shouldn't be until late Spring '14. Figure I'll stick with QSGB for at least one more OCI and see where things are at.
Otherwise no surprises, checking on PQIA showed me that none of the additive numbers are unexpected, though they tested 5w30 and not 5w20, the ranges are similar enough.
Code:
OIL QSGB 5w20 Nextgen 5w20
MILES IN USE 5.5k 5k
MILES 13695 8195
SAMPLE TAKEN 09/07/13 06/23/13
MAKE UP ADDED 0 qts 0 qts
Aluminum 6 11
Chromium 0 0
Iron 8 13
Copper 10 20
Lead 1 0
Tin 0 0
Molybendum 97 185
Nickel 0 0
Manganese 1 2
Silver 1 2
Titanium 0 0
Potassium 2 1
Boron 52 4
Silicon 19 45
Sodium 37 0
Calcium 1938 2251
Magnesium 12 23
Phosphorus 659 735
Zinc 713 859
Barium 0 1
SUS Visc @ 210F 50.6 53.7
cSt @ 100C 7.46 8.38
Flashpoint F 435 385
Fuel %
Antifreeze % 0.0 0.0
Water % 0.0 0.0
Insolubles % 0.2 0.4
TBN 2.0 2.0
Admittedly this oil probably had it pretty easy since 3k miles of this OCI was done via road trip, so lots of easy highway miles. Also looks like things are breaking in as expected.
I also wanted to do at least one UOA on QSGB as there doesn't seem to be a ton of information on it around here, so here's adding to the collective info this forum brings to the web.
Blackstone had it erroneously labeled as 5w30 instead of 5w20 so they flagged the viscosity, though I'm expecting that clarification will mean all is well. I'm betting they had a hard time reading my chicken scratch.
Anyway, aluminum, iron, copper dropped, and silicon dropped. I'll probably do another UOA once my next OCI is up just to see how things are going, but that shouldn't be until late Spring '14. Figure I'll stick with QSGB for at least one more OCI and see where things are at.
Otherwise no surprises, checking on PQIA showed me that none of the additive numbers are unexpected, though they tested 5w30 and not 5w20, the ranges are similar enough.
Code:
OIL QSGB 5w20 Nextgen 5w20
MILES IN USE 5.5k 5k
MILES 13695 8195
SAMPLE TAKEN 09/07/13 06/23/13
MAKE UP ADDED 0 qts 0 qts
Aluminum 6 11
Chromium 0 0
Iron 8 13
Copper 10 20
Lead 1 0
Tin 0 0
Molybendum 97 185
Nickel 0 0
Manganese 1 2
Silver 1 2
Titanium 0 0
Potassium 2 1
Boron 52 4
Silicon 19 45
Sodium 37 0
Calcium 1938 2251
Magnesium 12 23
Phosphorus 659 735
Zinc 713 859
Barium 0 1
SUS Visc @ 210F 50.6 53.7
cSt @ 100C 7.46 8.38
Flashpoint F 435 385
Fuel %
Antifreeze % 0.0 0.0
Water % 0.0 0.0
Insolubles % 0.2 0.4
TBN 2.0 2.0