How to tell your oil is aged and needs change
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I believe what Blackstone meant was oil does not expire within months after putting it in the engine. What they mean with "with use" is the number of miles it was ran. So they base their suggested change intervals with number of miles the oil was ran NOT the number of months it stayed inside the engine. They even suggested to run my oil for 1500 miles more making it a total of 3500 miles and have it analyzed again because at 2000 miles (10 months), the oil is still doing its job and not expired.
1) Oil does have a shelf life whether it is installed in an engine or not. Period it does. Regardless of what Oil Analyzers.inc say or Blackstone.
2) Oil analysis labs do not base their oil reports on nothing less that how is the oil looking after they ran it through the testing they do, key component they look for is how is the TBN looking like this gives them lots of insight on the condition of the oil sample. They look for contaminants within the oil and not to mention many other areas.
What I mean here is you could have had the oil in your car for 2 full years and if it's was of high quality it could have come back with flying colors.
Plenty reasons I preffer to use Oil Analyzers for my samples, over the years I have dealt with Botha companies and you get to learn a few things.
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Let me clarify some of the points you made i know what you mean I really don't want the rest getting confused.
1) Oil does have a shelf life whether it is installed in an engine or not. Period it does. Regardless of what Oil Analyzers.inc say or Blackstone.2) Oil analysis labs do not base their oil reports on nothing less that how is the oil looking after they ran it through the testing they do, key component they look for is how is the TBN looking like this gives them lots of insight on the condition of the oil sample. They look for contaminants within the oil and not to mention many other areas.
What I mean here is you could have had the oil in your car for 2 full years and if it's was of high quality it could have come back with flying colors.
Plenty reasons I preffer to use Oil Analyzers for my samples, over the years I have dealt with Botha companies and you get to learn a few things.
1) Oil does have a shelf life whether it is installed in an engine or not. Period it does. Regardless of what Oil Analyzers.inc say or Blackstone.2) Oil analysis labs do not base their oil reports on nothing less that how is the oil looking after they ran it through the testing they do, key component they look for is how is the TBN looking like this gives them lots of insight on the condition of the oil sample. They look for contaminants within the oil and not to mention many other areas.
What I mean here is you could have had the oil in your car for 2 full years and if it's was of high quality it could have come back with flying colors.
Plenty reasons I preffer to use Oil Analyzers for my samples, over the years I have dealt with Botha companies and you get to learn a few things.
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If the statement you wrote were based on the comments blackstone wrote for you then i am not sure i can agree with what they are trying to say.
I dont think it matters that much. The point on this thread has been carried foward.
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