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Heard a fleet manager say something about oil sampling that stopped me cold
He was talking about how they caught a failing injector cup 800 hours early just by sending oil samples every 250 hours. I had been skipping those on my own truck because they felt like a waste of $25. Has anyone else had a sample catch something before it turned into a real problem?
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the_kelly1mo ago
Oh man, that's wild. I had a similar thing happen with my old Ford pickup, except it was the transmission fluid. I kept putting off sampling it cause I thought it was just a gimmick. Then the shop found high levels of something in the oil, I don't remember exactly what, that pointed to a coolant leak that was slowly eating seals from the inside out. Saved me from a full rebuild a year later. Now I do it on both my trucks like clockwork. Idk, it's one of those things that feels dumb until it saves your butt.
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river_hart181mo ago
Is it really worth the money though? I've been running my old Chevy on nothing but basic oil changes for 15 years and it's still chugging along just fine. How often do these lab tests actually catch something vs just being an extra bill to pay? Feels like another thing for shops to upsell you on when regular maintenance already does the job.
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nathan_bailey28d ago
Is it worth the money though?
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