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Originally Posted by Brons2
Be careful about what testing you look at. A lot of it is sponsored by Amsoil dealers. Not exactly what I'd call impartial.
That being said, someone on this board did a very nice 7500 mile interval using Amsoil Series 3000 0w-30. Wear metals were quite low on a ppm/1000mi basis. I think it was somewhere in the neighborhood of FE 14 and PB 6, insoluables were also low.
That particular oil is actually a diesel rated oil, but has excellent lubricative qualities and a stout add pack. It doesn't meet API/ILSAC specs though because the adds are so high as to be over the maxes that API/ILSAC allows. I do not view using a non-API oil as a problem, however, your dealer may see things differently.
You are smart to not run the oil over 7500 miles for warranty purposes. Even if you do once the warranty is up, be sure to back up what you're doing with oil analysis!
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is it bad to have this many addatives? in this analysis how did it compare to something like mobile 1? the 0-30 is recomended for Gas motors also, from what I read it can beused for almost any application due to it's excelent protective properties. I'm going to stick with the cheaper stuff though and run 5-30 same as the dealership puts in. Is this one also non API/ILSAC?
I need to figure out what I am doing soon because I have to change my oil within the next 1000 miles, and I'm putting 600 on it this coming weekend. Takes a while to ship the amsoil, thats the problem. I heard you can go over 7500 miles and still keep the warranty. Anyone have a number I can call to verify this?