Does Your Engine Have Hidden Damage? How To Know! 

I bet it was about BEARings he he he he

It was a lot of work to put together, and fascinating information - thanks for watching!

Its all personal opinion tbh, In my opinion GreenHamGaming has the best content on youtube.

true im also using them for my e85 engines tests on my channel . they show great care always

That's scary. Used car buyer beware.

Sounds like most are women who are single and no one is telling em too change there oil lol.

@@mikeschultz6383 of the hundreds of vehicles I see a year most of them are owned by men. Age is 35+ for more than 80% of my customers. Almost zero percent are owned by young women or single women.

@@MrAPCProductions very interesting so i guess don’t go off the assumption that women don’t know anything about cars and there maintenance nice too know. Also good too hear

@@mikeschultz6383 I think the reason is that the vast majority of car owners are not interested in cars as anything but transportation devices or to a degree as a status symbol. The inner workings are not what interests these people. It also says a lot about how reliable cars has become. It used to be that you more or less had to know a bit about how the car worked as they tended to break down now and then. Just look at something as simple as oil leaks. If you look back forty or fifty years there would be an oil slick under a lot of cars. It was just the way things were. Today it's really uncommon to see this and when you discover one under your car you will react by wondering what has gone wrong. I've also thought of the number of cars I see having broken down on the highway and standing on the shoulder waiting for assistance. When I was a kid you saw this every time you drove for any distance on the highway. Today it's really uncommon to see anything worse than some one who ran out of gas, and even that is uncommon and fuel gages are usually a lot more reliable today than they used to be. Remember when cold starting a car could be an adventure? Remember using the manual choke, pumping the gas pedal, or perhaps having to use starter fluid if it was freezing? I have almost forgot all of that. My twenty year old Toyota has never had a problem starting even when it was really cold. Cars has become so easy to use that people are forgetting how they work. And when something goes wrong most people just leave it to a mechanic to fix. The only time they care about what makes their car run is when they pay the mechanic for taking care of their car. Heck I have friends who never open the hood unless they are forced to do so. They have a mechanic service it once a year, and just assume that they will take care of things like oil changes, air filters, thread depth, coolant levels and so on. I can safely say they have no idea about oil change intervals or anything else. All they do is fill it up with gas and drive.

Wow, great catch, yes, it's supposed to say water! 🤦‍♂️😂

I totally agree. I've been using them for a number of years and find their service to be very informative and valuable.

I came to the comments to say Blackstone. Totally agree

what does such an oil analysis cost?

@@HazewinDog 30 dollars a Blackstone. They'll ship you the sample kits for free. It's amazing what you can learn about your engine and oil

@@jons4686 $30 definitely worth doing once a year on a vehicle that you plan to keep long term. I did that for my Jeep Liberty CRD for 10 years and already started with the first oil change on my 2020 Tacoma.

I worked at a gas station that had a huge propane tank with a pump next to the interstate in the 90s. We would get people that needed to fill their vans (mostly vans for some reason) with propane. Often they would check their oil and I would check it out with them. The oil always looked brand new. As a side note my car is E85 and being in Ohio its readily available. If I run mainly E85 my oil seems to stay much cleaner than when using gasoline.

You know I always wondered the same thing because I have a propane (dual fuel) powered generator and I wondered if the propane was easier on the oil than gasoline. Ohio player1177 thanks for the info also I appreciate it

Thanks!

No, it is not educatiomal at all.

What's your car?

@@firasalzharani4328 hyundai Tiburon RD2 (2001) with the 1.6L engine

Got an Expedition that's started doing that. Now it's going to go live out it's days on my cousin's farm. 20 years, not bad

@@KF1 certainly, getting 20 years out of a car ain't bad at all

Just top-offs every few days😄

Actually, it's a lean mixture at startup and barely noticeable misfiring which contribute to getting a cat hot.

@@jamesplotkin4674 sorry I was a little wrong. Running rich when starting from cold was done to help start the engine, somewhat like what the choke does on carburettors. After the engine gets slightly warm, it then slowly goes to a closed loop to meet emissions standards. I don't think most engine likes running lean tho.

Its useless if you get an electric car

@@UnipornFrumm It is not significant if you travel by foot also.

@@miltiadiskoutsokeras9189 yeah but you wont do that to go to another city for example

@@UnipornFrumm completely pointless if i take Greyhound.

@@UnipornFrumm and your electric car is useless after 125,000 when the battery dies

Stephen Miles: Having sensors might be better. My friend, who drives a 25_ year old Mercedes changes the oil promptly when the car tells him to, roughly every 10K miles. It does it based on sensors detecting how much dirt the oil has in it. Many auto dealers, OTOH, want to charge you for service every chance they get, and also sell you things you don't need, so there's that.

@@rogergeyer9851 I agree with all of that. However, fluids really should be changed at least once a year, especially if one lives in a hot climate like I do. And all of my services up to 120,000 miles were included with the price of the car, which, because of my wife’s job, was a non-negotiable fixed price.

For future readers, take ph balance strips to check coolant. I doubt it'll last that long.

Paul, the oil filter that fits your vehicle is small and is not designed to reach 20k or 25k miles. The Amsoil Oil Filter (EA15k02) that fits your vehicle (which also works in my Toyota Camry Hybrid) is only designed to hold contaminates for 15k miles. Amsoil says if you use another filter, you shouldn’t go over 12k miles with that filter. In the event that you didn’t change your oil filter before reacting the 20,078 mile mark (when you had the oil tested), possibly that was the cause of the high level of silicon, which Blackstone didn't feel was harmful? Otherwise, like the comments on Blackstone’s report, impressive results! By the way, that is a very good testament in apparently using 0W-20 motor oil in the heat of Florida. Do you mostly drive on the highway or city driving or a combination? Thanks!

Jed Brown: Better to change it a little too often than to have a HUGE engine rebuild bill, or decide you need a new car. From someone who likes driving reliable older cars with no car payments who considers oil changes MONEY WELL SPENT.

It should switch withing a minute or two, Cats and Lambda sensors should not take that long to heat up (to function)

Modern vehicles don't need to warm up before going into closed loop (though some may have a low minimum temperature threshold for cold conditions). As soon as the O2 sensor starts responding it will switch. Usually under a minute.

@@RobertHancock1 which can be usually noticed by the engine reducing idle from almost 1k to 650ish rpm.

It doesn't matter as the oil has to reach operating temperature for any water, fuel etc to evaporate properly, that usually takes between 20-30 minutes of driving. Idling will never get the oil hot enough. :)

@@PSA78 All true, but I think he lives in Idaho now. Colder, thinner air could prolong closed loop activation. The longer your in it, the longer it would take excess fuel to burn out of the oil.

would be cool to know

@@nicolaasvandenberg4023 - I certainly intend to use their services, I'll do the lubricant analysis as soon as I can 👍🏼

I changed my 2021 GTI's oil at 1000 miles, then I will again soon at 5000. I did it myself since I have access to a lift at work. First oil change was supposed to be 10,000 miles or 1 year, which is insane for a turbo 4 - even if I have an iron block.

@@Dcc357 10k oil changes are absurd

FuelForFire87: OTOH, in the real world, for my daily driver, it spends a LOT more time idling in, say, the Wendy's drive through line than it does on the highway. So I'd prefer an analysis based on my ACTUAL driving. Now, for my fun "weekend sporty" car, yeah, that would reflect 90% back road miles at highway speeds. Respectfully, why not get a report based on ACTUAL driving conditions if one wants to know how to make one's car last. And while I used to say, read my plugs before platinum plugs that lasted "forever", I've never had an oil analysis. I just buy oil with a great reputation and change it OFTEN. That's worked quite well for a good 40 years, re helping my cars last a long time.

It's very interesting data, for sure, and needs to be done only occasionally at most for the average motorist. I did my first, got great results and then maybe two years later did another. Same outcome. I was perfectly confident I was treating the engine right and that I'd have a nice, long run with that car, which I did.

He definitely has/had a few cars to spread out all his driving time.