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Porsche Engine Oil Analysis Recommendations
I would like to take an engine oil sample and send it to a reputable place familiar with Porsche engines for oil analysis. Does anyone have any recommendations for a place to send this to?
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01-15-2012, 02:22 PM
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Yessir,.......Staveley Labs is excellent.
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I've found Blackstone Labs does an excellent job and is very convenient. I know many other Pelicans use them too.
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01-15-2012, 09:13 PM
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Stick with Staveleys......ask me how I know.
You may have to buy the "kit" vs. Blackstone's approach to singular samples. My personal testing of these 2 labs (by sending in identical virgin oil samples to each on multiple occasions0 resulted in different lab results (albeit small differences). A confirmation testing sample was compared to a 3rd Lab. 3rd lab provided the same result as Staveleys, both on the VOA and UOA. So: Staveley's for me. Doyle I do think these labss testing protocols are not the same
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Nobody posted prices for testing as that could help differentiate choices.
I use this kit. AMSOIL - Oil Analysis Kits It costs $32 for a pre-paid mailing envelope. The company that does the analysis is Horizon. All of my oil reports are available online and I can compare samples easily. I can post a copy of a test report if you want to see what the results look like.
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Blackstone is $25 for the basic, add $10 if you want to see how your additive package held up. -you pay postage - kits are free for the asking.
Blackstone been good for me. If they don't perform to some people's standards for virgin analysis, I figure at the very minimum I have a solid base line to measure the succeeding tests by. - not just the P-cars - I'm monitoring 3 others as well. Bill K
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the value in oil analysis is in the comparison of repeated samples
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