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Not yet, but I'll be doing everything on this next go-around for both Saabs. For the '99 9-3, I'll be sending in a clean oil sample of M1 0W-40 for a baseline to compare against the 10k mile analysis later on, & I'll be cutting open the OE filter to take a look. (H.O.Penn is providing the clean oil analysis free of charge, & I'll send the used oil there too.) Out of curiosity, I've got magnets from old computer disk drives on the outside of the filter. (That'll insure that I open the filter!) I used the Saab Free Oil Change card to "chase out" the old Syntec 10W-30 with whatever junk the dealer uses (no, they didn't use Saab OE oil for the Saab Free Oil Change), & so I only ran it for about 20 miles before I drained it out. Man, was that oil dirty in just 20 miles! Because of the mix, I expect slightly skewed numbers compared to the baseline, but I'm not worried about it over this length of interval. So far, the car's not used ANY oil for the past two 10k mile change intervals.
For the '90 900 (NA), I also switched from Syntec 10W-30 (at 10k mile intervals for the past 40k miles) to M1, but using the 15W-50 instead. (18*F this morning when I went to work. How did my car start? I don't know; I rode my bike!) I'm not sending a clean sample in on this car 'cuz I think I'm going to use Delvac 1 to top up & the long-term mix will have a greater effect on the final analysis. I decided to do this 'cuz the car gets used only for short trips & errands right now, & I wanted to have a slightly better cleaning/anti-acid additive pkg in there for as long as it's going to take me to get to 10k miles (I've only put about 1500 miles on it in the past 3&1/2mos, so I expect it to take maybe 2 yrs to finish this interval). Dyson analysis said they can account for different combinations of additive pkgs when they review the analysis, so I'll probably send that batch to them. I'm doing the same thing with the oil filter on this car too, but I'm using the bigger PF13.
I haven't decided if I'll switch either filter at 5k or not. I may change the 9-3's simply because of the mix of oils & the dinky OE filter (I was using Pure Ones on the previous two 10k intervals), & I may change the 900's due to age if I'm only at 5k after a year (with 15W-50 it may be prudent).
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