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Originally Posted by Rob175
A "one time" analysis won't tell you what's "normal" wear and tear for YOUR engine. For example, a brand new engine's oil analysis could show a great variety of metals in the oil......but some of that stuff could be part of the manufacturing processes to make that engine or the typical "break in" wear.
IF you were to get an oil analysis of that FIRST oil you might think your engine is about to fail....lol.
Companies (often with fleets of vehicles) will perform regular oil analysis in order to determine the health of their engines........OVER MANY TESTS.....seldom do engines experience failure all of a sudden. It's more typical that they fail slowly. .But relying on ONE test is like pulling only ONE spark plug and trying to determine how all are burning based on one...........
But do as you wish........
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There is some truth to what you are saying, but your kind of missing the point here. Me, Both engine engineers from work + the porsche mechanic + forum member 997_986 says something looks off on the pictures of the oil. I am very familiar with how this testing works as I am captain on a ship, and of course work closely with the chief engineer and engine dept, who does this regularly on our main generators/engines. However what we are looking at here is something different. The oil clearly looks like something is going on, and the analysis will be able to tell me if there is condensation/water in the oil, if there is glykol(bad news). That alone can tell me alot about why the oil looks like it does. Also, if some wear metal is sky high in a engine oil thats been run for less than 10 hours, that says a lot. I dont need a baseline for that. The company also writes a report based on what suspected values should be on average, if they have the engine in their database.
There is no doubt neither in me or anyone that i talked to that doing an oil analysis is the only reasonable way foreward. Indie Porsche workshop strongly urged me to do so also. It was pretty cheap as well 75 bucks per test, as they only work with companies and organizations as regulars. Ordered 5 test bottles.