Castrol 0w30 SLX/OE LL04 11.3K|44K 2011 BMW 335d

[bvl]

First UOA from my first diesel in the stable. BMW does 11-13K OCIs under free maintenance with Castrol SLX or Professional OE 0/30 LL04. I don't see a VoA of it but from what little i have seen its nothing remarkable. Some folks have written good things about M1 ESP thought thats tough to find on sale. I am tempted to use it once out of warranty but that will be a while as I have 7/100 extended. I likely will do 12K changes on my own until 100K, then perhaps extend to 15K. 90/10 HWY for this car. 33 average mpg with 400+ ft-lbs. Its a hoot.

Next year dealers should be changing over to a SOPUS product, so it will be interesting to see if it changes or they have a lot of old stock of Castrol as the diesels are not plentiful so I gather they don't have bulk but rather stock quarts on the shelves of LL04.

Code:


OIL Castrol SLX

0w30 LL04

MILES IN USE 11.4K

MILES 44.1K

SAMPLE TAKEN 04/19/14

Makeup QT 0



ALUMINUM 9

CHROMIUM 3

IRON 66

COPPER 7

LEAD 1

TIN 0

MOLYBDENUM 1

NICKEL 1

MANGANESE 2

SILVER 0

TITANIUM 1

POTASSIUM 11

BORON 2

SILICON 2

SODIUM 4

CALCIUM 1651

MAGNESIUM 14

PHOSPHORUS 618

ZINC 692

BARIUM 0



INSOLUBLES 0.4

WATER 0

FLASHPOINT ºF 400

SUS VIS 210ºF 61.9

cSt @ 212ºF 10.75

TBN 1.8

 

[m6pwr]

Looks good to me. What lab did you use and did they flag anything? Why no measure of fuel dilution?

 

[bvl]

Looks like I forgot the fuel line. Good eye

Fuel was 1% according to Blackstone.

- b

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

FYI. It's a 5W30 not a 0w30. Probably won't affect [censored] analysis of sample anyways.

 

[bvl]

5/30 of course. Typo on my part. Twice.

-b

 

[SilverC6]

It wouldn't surprise me if BMW still uses Castrol in diesel applications after the move to SOPUS.

But SOPUS may have a Euro LL-04 5W-30 waiting to plug into the BMW supply chain.

 

[E55AMG2]

What were their comments about your UOA? I have an X5D using the same oil and OCI.