Dirty Oil

[Makers]

[F]

I have a 2004. 5, the truck only has just over 8,000 miles on it, I bought the truck new and have serviced it twice, the oil seems to turn black after about 500 to 750 miles, everyone has told me it will get better after it is broke in, is this common? I plan on installing a Frantz filtering system on the truck, should I be concerned with the color.

Thanks

Mark [/FONT]

 

[MStrain]

It is normal, my truck is the same way, has something to do with diesel soot, I use Amsoil Heavy Duty and it turns black after a while but it is still doing it's job. My engine runs like a champ, gotta love the inline diesel power.

 

[amsoilman]

[F]

I have a 2004. 5, the truck only has just over 8,000 miles on it, I bought the truck new and have serviced it twice, the oil seems to turn black after about 500 to 750 miles, everyone has told me it will get better after it is broke in, is this common? I plan on installing a Frantz filtering system on the truck, should I be concerned with the color.

Thanks

Mark [/FONT]

This is pretty "Normal" for the newer trucks. Mine is an 03', and has 60,000 on the oil without a change, using the Amsoil 15W-40 and by-pass oil filtration. My oil is "black", but the last oil analysis showed only 0. 7 % SOOT



Wayne

 

[Cattletrkr]

It's normal and it's not something that goes away. 174K and the oil is black all the time. Never a prob with the oil, regardless of brand.

 

[JBonpua]

It has something to do with multiple injection /event (emmision stuff). I run Amsoil bypass filter and the oil turns black as soon as I start the engine

 

[jeepit]

My truck's oil turns a slight gray color at 3,000 miles. The 2003 and up seem to have the oil turn black real quick.

Our Jetta's oil is black after 100 miles. It is just weird trying to get used to it.

 

[JFaulkner]

I'd be concerned if it wasn't black.

 

[DZink24]

The 2004. 5 and newer motors seem to get much blacker, much quicker than the 2003-04 non-third inj. event motors. My 04 seems to stay amber for what may be upwards of 1,000 miles. I do mostly all highway miles, so I go between 9 -10 thousand miles between changes. Last weekend, I changed it with John Deere 15 w 40 *CI-4* oil, that was very dark right out of the bottle, almost like a glass of Guiness.



Don't judge a book by it's cover, don't judge oil by its color. You should see some of the oil in our INT DT466 tractors at work... .

 

[JRBurton]

install an amsoil bypass system or what ever you prefer and have an oil analasys done, don't worry about what your oil looks like, just remeber its whats in your oil that will do the damage. I personally have been useing amsoil in my 2001 for the past 5 years, started with the 15-40 , now running 5w30 with bypass filter, just trying to keep the oil a little cleaner. I'm soon due for oil analasys. also use amsoil in both front & rear, manual trans and transfer case, I got tired of the big foreign oil company's, thought I'd try an american product. I love it .