2nd Blackstone Report

wildwestm3 · 08-17-2016, 08:37 PM

Second report. I think it is a good one. The first oil change went to 15K miles. This one was done at 8K, but you can see they said based on what they are seeing I should be fine at 10K. I wanted to do a couple to establish a baseline. I'm thinking maybe do a report every other oil change. Any suggestions on the frequency of the Blackstone reports?

BzsBimmer · 08-17-2016, 08:43 PM

I do mine every change

rmcard · 08-17-2016, 09:06 PM

May want to black out your name, email and phone number...

wildwestm3 · 08-18-2016, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by rmcard

May want to black out your name, email and phone number...

Good point, didn't think of that...

dparm · 08-18-2016, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by wildwestm3

Second report. I think it is a good one. The first oil change went to 15K miles. This one was done at 8K, but you can see they said based on what they are seeing I should be fine at 10K. I wanted to do a couple to establish a baseline. I'm thinking maybe do a report every other oil change. Any suggestions on the frequency of the Blackstone reports?

You guys need to pay for TBN & TAN if you want to figure out what a good change interval will be. I've said it time and time again.

Good to see insolubles drop, but I suspect you could run a longer interval since everything else looked fine at 12.5k, though without TBN+TAN it's hard to say for certain.

ec_E92 · 08-18-2016, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by BzsBimmer

I do mine every change

+1

BzsBimmer · 08-18-2016, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by dparm

You guys need to pay for TBN & TAN if you want to figure out what a good change interval will be. I've said it time and time again.

Good to see insolubles drop, but I suspect you could run a longer interval since everything else looked fine at 12.5k, though without TBN+TAN it's hard to say for certain.

I don't pay for TBN since I change it every 7500 miles. I have 5 or 6 data points now and a good trend exists.

wildwestm3 · 08-18-2016, 10:52 AM

Don't really know what a TBN is?? I'm pretty happy with the report though considering the car has over 80K on it...

s14_kev · 08-18-2016, 10:54 AM

+1 for every oil change. Cheap peace of mind.

dparm · 08-18-2016, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by wildwestm3

Don't really know what a TBN is?? I'm pretty happy with the report though considering the car has over 80K on it...

TBN = total base number (reserve alkalinity, or ability to neutralize acids & how much active additive is left)

TAN = total acid number (acidity of the oil)

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