2007 Mercury Milan|Valvoline SynPower|9497 miles

[tinmanSC]

This is a report from a 2007 Mercury Milan using the Ford Duratec 3.0L V6. We used SynPower 5w-20, SM flavor. We ran this oil almost 10K miles with no filter change or top up (as you can see from the TBN). I agree with their comment, SynPower was probably not the oil to use for this long of a run. We filled it back up with SynPower again, so we will have to be a little more mindful of the mileage and change it a little earlier. While iron was high, this was pretty close to their Fe per mile for averages, so I feel good about that. This is the first UOA from this vehicle. This car has has 56K miles on it.

 

[OtisBlkR1]

good report, this makes me feel pretty good about my 4-5 thousand mile OCI with 5-30 synpower. I wont stretch it out any further as this trucks been seeing alot of different duty over the past 18 months so the better safe than sorry attitude works for me.

 

[river_rat]

Synpower pretty regularly turns in very good UOAs. I don't consider it a 10K oil though. Thanks for posting!

 

[ltslimjim]

Originally Posted By: river_rat
Synpower pretty regularly turns in very good UOAs. I don't consider it a 10K oil though. Thanks for posting!


I agree. It's a solid 7,500 mile oil generally speaking. In this app, probably best to cap it there instead of 8.5k-9k+.

 

[Artem]

what was the oil level @ before the oil change? I mean, if you could have added half a quart of top off, that would have helped with TBN and 10k OCIs would be fine with this oil in your application.

If the car doesn't burn any oil, i agree that you should look into another oil with better TBN retention if you want to do 10k OCIs.

 

[ottotheclown]

At Wally this oil is 2nd most $$$ other than Mobil EP. 46 iron and 0.9 tbn hmmmmm. Might look around for something else!!

 

[tinmanSC]

Originally Posted By: Artem
what was the oil level @ before the oil change? I mean, if you could have added half a quart of top off, that would have helped with TBN and 10k OCIs would be fine with this oil in your application.

Yes, it does burn a little bit. It was about 3/4 of a quart low when I changed it. This engine takes 6 quarts of oil so this would have looked better if I had topped it up.

 

[Dan55]

IIRC isn"t that motor a little tough on oil? http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1963918#Post1963918

 

[webfors]

I wouldn't run it any longer. 7.5k might be ideal in this application.

 

[addyguy]

That is a really, really bad report for a Duratec V-6. they are VERY easy on oil.

I've seen many 10k runs with almost single-digit wear.

Dunno what happened here, but I'd go back to 5k changes if you are getting results that bad.

 

[tinmanSC]

Originally Posted By: Dan55
IIRC isn"t that motor a little tough on oil?
Originally Posted By: addyguy
That is a really, really bad report for a Duratec V-6. they are VERY easy on oil.

hum... yeah.

Whichever is right, I think I'm going to switch to Pennzoil Ultra on my next change and resample since I have it in the stash. SynPower doesn't seem to do what I want in this application.

Thanks for all the replies.

 

[Merkava_4]

I'm thinking the iron would come down if you switched to 5W-30.