Well this is certainly not a great report but this is why I do them....
We are going to change his oil more frequently given the short tripping and experiment with what oil is best given the conditions.
1) Engine is still fairly new and didn't see too many oil changes. This is only it's 3rd change
(which is why copper and iron are still higher than they should be. These engines take a while to wash this out)
2) Mainly old formulation Amsoil in use with some new formulation in there. That's why the numbers look weird in regards to ad-pack.
3) Vehicle does mainly 6 mile (10km) trips so the oil never really gets a chance to heat up as confirmed by fuel dilution numbers and water concentration.
4) Oil was run 8 months in this sample for 6K miles (10K KM) with this short tripping.
5) Fuel in use is Petro Canada E-10, 87 Octane which I know isn't the greatest although it is top-tier. This is contributing to the nitration and water in the oil along with the short tripping.
6) Air filter is original from the factory. He's changing it today
7) Wix standard oil filter (not XP) was the filter used
8) No top-up/make up oil
9) OLM hadn't gone off in this time period so Chrysler thinks the oil would still have been fine during these conditions as well.
10) The Acid number is excellent given the conditons and lots of TBN remaining.
Terry thinks the oil handled the conditions quite well given the extreme environment and duration the oil was run. He isn't panicking about the metal numbers given the young age of the engine, short tripping that went on and is fine with it being run the full year and longer OCI than this although we should work on tuning the reports because it's not the best they can be.
So while this might get folks worked up, I'm not loosing sleep about it. We have no intent to dump the oil tomorrow. We will run it to a shorter interval and experiment with different oils to find what is the best given the short tripping situation. Next to try is XL series and then M1 as it's about balancing performance with cost.
We are going to change his oil more frequently given the short tripping and experiment with what oil is best given the conditions.
1) Engine is still fairly new and didn't see too many oil changes. This is only it's 3rd change
(which is why copper and iron are still higher than they should be. These engines take a while to wash this out)
2) Mainly old formulation Amsoil in use with some new formulation in there. That's why the numbers look weird in regards to ad-pack.
3) Vehicle does mainly 6 mile (10km) trips so the oil never really gets a chance to heat up as confirmed by fuel dilution numbers and water concentration.
4) Oil was run 8 months in this sample for 6K miles (10K KM) with this short tripping.
5) Fuel in use is Petro Canada E-10, 87 Octane which I know isn't the greatest although it is top-tier. This is contributing to the nitration and water in the oil along with the short tripping.
6) Air filter is original from the factory. He's changing it today
7) Wix standard oil filter (not XP) was the filter used
8) No top-up/make up oil
9) OLM hadn't gone off in this time period so Chrysler thinks the oil would still have been fine during these conditions as well.
10) The Acid number is excellent given the conditons and lots of TBN remaining.
Terry thinks the oil handled the conditions quite well given the extreme environment and duration the oil was run. He isn't panicking about the metal numbers given the young age of the engine, short tripping that went on and is fine with it being run the full year and longer OCI than this although we should work on tuning the reports because it's not the best they can be.
So while this might get folks worked up, I'm not loosing sleep about it. We have no intent to dump the oil tomorrow. We will run it to a shorter interval and experiment with different oils to find what is the best given the short tripping situation. Next to try is XL series and then M1 as it's about balancing performance with cost.
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