Blackstone Labs Oil Report

• P400
• 25,000miles on the odometer.
• This was the second oil change. 15,000 miles and 25,000 miles
• The oil sample is 10,000 miles old.

I thought the lab's summary at the top was very helpful. Just wanted to share here.
Perhaps it's useful to others.
Perhaps others will share their own reports to see if any trends emerge.
I plan on following their advice with oil changes every 10,000 miles going forward.

Lab Summary

Gavin: Congrats on the new Defender! This report suggests it hasn't had many oil changes in its first

25,000 miles. It can take three or four oil changes for excess metal from parts wearing in and silicon from

sealers/assembly lube to flush out of the oil system. Universal averages show expected wear for a mature

3.0L Ingenium with about 7,300 miles on the oil. If the extra metal/silicon is just residue from break-in, the

elements marked in bold should improve on their own. Check back in another ~10,000 miles to see if they

do. Fuel was okay at only 1.0%. No coolant was found.

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

lnteresting thank you for posting.

It looks like some fuel has got into the oil. l wouldn't want to leave the oil change for 20,000 miles.

 

Maybe it is me, but I think the first oil change should be on the old fashioned way, let all the oil out under the car.
After that you can vacuüm.

 

What would be the benefit of doing this? (asking not poking)

 

@GavinC Thanks for sharing this. For me this confirms the need to change the oil more frequently than LR recommends. Since the POS LR dealership can't ever seem to remember to perform an oil service I'll be ordering the items to do it myself. 1 qq: what do you do with the used oil?

Thanks

 

Most oil change places will take it or

 

huh, pretty interesting. thanks for sharing.

In regards to the 'drain it don't vacuum it' there is a lot of skid plates/air dams between you and the drain bolt. So I guess if you got 5-10 hours to kill to take all that off, drain it, put it all back on, figure out where the extra bolt goes etc, it's not unheard of. That's probably why they switched to vacuum though.

 

I removed all the skid plates and drained from the bottom for my first oil change -- something I do NOT want to repeat. very unpleasant.

There was nothing visible in the oil, but ok, maybe it was worth the effort to do it once (or more likely not)?

In any case, I have sucked it out every 5K miles since then. I know that is excessive -- but, what the heck .......

Enjoy!

 

From what I understand it would be to better evacuate the break in metal and allow cleaning/inspection of the drain plug which can be magnetic.