re: Preventative Truck Maintenance

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Costs $15 and can tell you if something is wrong with your engine internally by just sending them a little vile full of used oil. That information could help prevent a catastrophic failure

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And what...if they find heightened oevels of wear metals....are you really going to pull the motor down to change the main bearings...or mereky wait until it grenades and rebuid.

If your head gasket is beginning to go and they detect coolant...how many people pull the heads and swap gaskets before a blowout?

If they detect higher levels of silicon...whoops ran a k&n filter and sand got in.

Sorry...people who do maintenance dont need used oil analysis or oil flushes. There is simply no need, no matter what the self appointed high post count oligarchs may preach on bobistheoilguy.

The problems the oil analysis finds are never simple fixes.


I realize we have a difference of opinion here...but I do my own work...and a used oil analysis would tell me absolutely nothing that I didnt already know from any sounds, vibration, exhaust smell, blowby, power loss, or compression/leak down test.

As for auto rx, be it a motor with a known history, or a motor with definite sludge... I prefer the slow cleaning of good oil to that of solvents. Oil rings can actually GET coked up if the deposits bounce into the wrong area.