We're doing it in over a $1B worth of assets. Where oil is a large expense. Yet so is equipment failure. At some point you have to trust something with a balance.
However. I truthfully would like to run some LE at some point. I'm having a hard time dropping my royal purple as it has withstood a stout environment for what I use it in and ExxonMobil laboratory testing has shown the facts on it as well as polaris and even the underdog Blackstone labs. All showing very close same results.
I do agree with your understanding on Blackstone tho....
My point was for the guy dumping his oil because he's scared at 4-5k miles he might as well run the cheapest crap. Especially on a truck with full emissions. And notably only 5% of people will keep the truck long enough to even see the warranty run out. That's why Ford changes things every 5 years to keep people buying new!!
I agree with balance. There's a reason you all do it the way you do with the oil you do it with. 80-90% of maintenance and asset management end up at a similar balance. But there's always a way to improve. Max Scherzer, former Tigers pitcher current Nationals Ace, said it best. If you're not getting better you're getting worse. Every customer of mine, as well as every non customer is now competing in a global market. And ISO 55000/1 isn't just a little thing I'm pushing In My little corner of the world. It's global. And it's becoming such a market advantage that soon other companies will mandate its implementation to sell products to them. Companies will no longer just want a consistent product produced, they will mandate your assets meet best practice practices and downtime requirements, which are 60 plus percent lower than what's acceptable now. I see 40-80 percent reduction in downtime with 55000 and LE implementation. And soon, that will be the global standard. If you're not getting better, you will be getting worse. At least compared to your competition.
Royal Purple is and has always been a good product. They are in a state of flux currently because the owner sold to an equity firm. Who in turn fired all their expensive high dollar chemical engineers and thus created a bunch of lawsuits for themselves because of patent rights infringements. The difference you will see between RP and LE us the effectiveness of the add pack. Rap and LE have similar base stocks and quality add packs. LE has a much better carrier, so it's more effective. And Monolec has a tremendous anti wear ability to boot.
And I agree about short oil drains. You will wear less with a higher quality oil even with short drains. But with heavy fuel dilution, it's a tough sell. My wife's ecoboost gets 15% fuel in the oil at 10k miles. But when we switched to LE from motorcraft, wear went down quite a bit. So even though I probably won't keep that thing long. I'm still pulling the trigger I the oil, just in case we do,
