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@nyccarguy said:

@tifighter said:
I guess they do know what they’re doing.

That was quick!

That’s what she said.

Speaking of the aurora, in Spokane easily visible even to the naked eye, and I live in a central area with some light pollution:

I guess they do know what they’re doing.

YouTube guys are definitely the guys I'd pick, rather than engineers that actually design the engine manufacturer..

@benjaminh said:
These two popular youtube guys, who both have a lot of experience, say that engine oil should be changed at 5k/6 months for non-turbo engines and at around 3k for turbo engines. They talk about this for the first nine minutes of this video. They both admit that oil analysis seems to show that oil is often ok way past their recommendations, but then more or less dismiss that. They say frequent oil changes are not that expensive, which is more or less true, but changing at their intervals does add up over time, and for me more importantly every time I go in for an oil change at my Acura dealer I have to deal with their upsell, and filter out what's needed and what's not. Plus I do think that the Honda/Acura engineers knew what they were doing when they created their maintenance minder system, and even built in a margin or error as seen in the test above where the oil was still good in a Honda Pilot after almost 10,000 miles. The title of this specific video, which is about the unrealistic case of keeping your car for a lifetime, reveals part of how they are looking at this. My Acura is now 7.5 years old and has around 94,000 miles. I'm not sure how long I'll keep it, but there's a good chance I might try for going over 150k...I did change the trans fluid at 50k and plan to do it again the next visit, which is twice as often as Acura recommends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCQY_ci3JZI&t=2269s

Yes- let’s just dismiss any data that contradicts our 50 year old OCI philosophy.
Hacks.

@stickguy said:
From watching a lot of repair videos the big issue seems to be sludge and gunk. Not sure how the correlates to oil analysis. Meaning can it test out ok at high miles intervals but still be causing issues.

Turbos and DI seem to make the issues worse. And it’s a big problem with so many cars having oil based VVT type systems.

What’s the point of UOAs if they don’t detect factors that impact engine longevity?
All I know is that I ran the MS3 to nearly 160k miles with no issues and the X3 past 200k miles with no issues- and in both cases the UOAs were stellar. Then there’s my son’s E90 at 108k miles. It saw a minimum OCI of 15k miles using BMW TPT 5W-30- which according to the YT “experts” should have expired long ago:

One of my kids shot this pic of the Northrn Lights from their balcony.

I follow the oil life monitor on the Ariya.

Taking a local-ish staycation and filled up the Maverick this evening. That's its first fillup since May, and I started the day with the tank about 40% full, according to the Ford app.

Here we go.

If you sell before your first oil change it doesn’t matter.

Beautiful day in the PNW. Using the 911 for everything, including shuttling my kid and a friend around to activities. Who says it isn’t a family car?

The guy in the back seat, usually.