Mobil 1 1,000,000 mile test on 90 325iS

[reelizmpro]

Back in the day, they strapped a new 325iS and ran it for 4 years at various speeds.
Thought you guys might enjoy this if you haven't heard about it.

http://www.mobil1.com.au/performance/miles.aspx

[Van Westervelt]

Pretty sweet lil gem.

Just shows its not miles that kill engines, its maintenance and neglect.

[e30trooper]

crazy

[ZM Blue Devil]

The engine videos arent of the m20... Cardinal interior in a Alpine car is sex. Very cool video, thanks for sharing...

[E30_(1st Musk)_]

im sold

[dinanm3atl]

In 1990... nice.

Now they sell a lot of cracked syntec blends.

Cool. I bet same would happen if you ran it like that on Castrol GTX 20W-50 :)

[SpecM]

Not supprising, the car was meticulusly maintained and was never really put under load

[thereisnoyun]

I want to see this being tested on a GM vehicle or Ford or Chrysler. They need somethign to compare to, or else its kind of silly.

[red325]

WOW. great vid that's amazing

[transatlantic0207]

cool vid...I wanna a see a company put their oil in a car WITH 100k already on it and see how that is for the engine. That would be a deal breaker for me...

[dinanm3atl]

I want to see this being tested on a GM vehicle or Ford or Chrysler. They need somethign to compare to, or else its kind of silly.

Pushrod V8?

Prolly last just as long :)

[xLibelle]

i'm glad they used swf, i was able to swipe it from the site for safe keeping. uploaded to youtube for everyone to see (outside the site.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHmMlU8Q-V8

If you watched the vid on the site, the flv and swf files are already on your comp.
If you want the MP4, let me know...

[Paukert11]

Wow

[884door]

They note it had very little wear, but they had the car constantly running, very few dry/cold starts, no hot/cold weather, no stop and go traffic, no full throttle acceleration etc, very litle idleling etc. The engine would of lasted that long on any oil under those conditions, real life driving is a lot harder on the engine.

[reelizmpro]

They note it had very little wear, but they had the car constantly running, very few dry/cold starts, no hot/cold weather, no stop and go traffic, no full throttle acceleration etc, very litle idleling etc. The engine would of lasted that long on any oil under those conditions, real life driving is a lot harder on the engine.

True. Most wear is on cold start and high RPM. They varied cruising speeds but that's not too hard on an engine. Still, having acceptable tolerances after 1,000,000 miles is pretty damn impressive and they stopped there. The car would have easily kept going. So the question is how many miles would you deduct IF they had cold starts, different weather, idling, stop/go. If the engine lasted 500K, that's pretty damn good. I'd be happy with 250K before I'd have to rebuild.