Break in oil test results

With the 6th gen coming, this will not be helpful to as many folks as I hoped, but here they are anyways. The first 3 used oil reports of a 2023 ORP.

 

Still a sucker for data - Nice!

 

you went from good original oil to average consumer oil. too bad for your runner

 

What do you recommend? I thought Mobile 1 makes the Toyota oil. I am not trying to start another oil thread .

 

Any off the shelf brand of the recommended viscosity.

 

Geniune Toyota 0w20 has robust levels of moly, Mobil 1 does not (as you can see from the UOA's). I run it in ALL my vehicles, even non-Toyota's. A 5qt jug of Mobil 1 is $30 and I have to buy 2 addt'l quarts anyways for $9 each. 6 qts of Toyota 0w20 is around $45-$50.

 

Just add pure moly if more is better.

I just used Kirkland again last night.

 

I bought a bunch of Mobil1 6qt for 28$ at Costco, still left some good for 3-4 oil changes. I'll restock when its ob sale again and keep using it with 4-5k intervals. Will also be sending samples for testing every second oil change.
But the crazy thing is Toyota expects us to keep the factory oil for 10K miles, which at 1400 already had high levels of wear in material.

 

Going to throw a chunk of this in the engine https://www.luciteria.com/elements-for-sale/buy-molybdenum

 

Project Farm tested OEM oils and the Toyota oil finished last. There are more important ingredients than moly.

 

Project Farm is a youtube entertainer.

 

Your progression through the three tests looks perfectly normal. I wouldn't even bother testing before 10,000 miles; it's a recipe for unneeded worrying.

I followed a similar plan to you. I changed break-in oil at 1,100 miles, and replaced with M1 EP 0W-20 and new filter for the 1,100-5,000 mile interval and again at 10K. i will send my 10K-15K mile oil off to Blackstone for my '23 ORP's first UOA.

 

Boom! Grind it down and just put the powder in the engine. It will last forever.

 

Lol I only read the manual after 1000miles, realized it had break-in instructions, some I had'nt followed. Wanted to make sure the engine was breaking in normally. I also was curious there isnt a lot of data on t4r break in oil results out there.

 

For the ultimate in oil and testing information: bobistheoilguy.com

 

Brand doesn't matter, every 10k synthetic your engine will outlast your ownership, guaranteed

 

On my last oil change, 7.8k miles, I had more aluminum and iron, but less copper. Better filtration on mine too, which is funny given twice the mileage. Your air filter must be shidded on. Around the 32k-40k miles. I run God's strongest oil (Pennzoil Ultra Plat Synth)

 

Funny. I bought my 4R from an out of state dealer. Went by my local one for oil. Parts guy said they quit selling it over the counter. Told me to go get Mobil 1. Said it's the same thing. WTF?

 

What is moly supposed to do anyways? My wear metals are at or below the average, morw moly would bring them even lower? I doubt. Some people swear by zinc and other additives. Axcording to blackstone themselves, additices do very little if any. Source: Blackstone Slick Talk Podcast.

 

https://bobistheoilguy.com/moly-basics/

 

I dont doubt the science of it, but if it is such a magic ingredient everybody would be adding it to their oil.

 

For anyone interested here is the Blackstone analysis of my first oil change.

 

Molly is like wearing a condom for your motor

 

Mobile 1 is fine. I turned wrenches for a while and did many tear-downs. The cleanest engines with hundreds of thousands of miles on them used all kinds of conventional and synthetic oils but had one thing in common: it was inevitably an old dude who didn't drive hard, used good gas, and changed his oil like it was the 11th commandment.

If some magic chemical or metal was the secret then everyone would use it. Turns out engine lubrication is really complex, but changing your oil consistently early (I'm a 5k/6mo kind of guy with synthetic) is going to have way more a positive impact that will put you ahead of 80% of the drivers out there.

 

TLDR?

 

Still better than rando forum poster, asserting facts

 

Glad I change my oil every 1k.

 

Lol

Every 100 miles

 

High metals starting out, glad did not wait till 10k per manual.

 

Thanks for the effort! You printed it then scanned?