Here's my first UOA on Castrol syntec 0w30 -- Ze German stuff.
Supposedly, Lead, Copper, and Chromium are the ones to look for low numbers -- I'm not pleased with the copper wear, but the other two look good.
I'll try one more time on this oil, then possibly switch to something else... maybe Redline or back to the Ester oil... hmm.
I get that in theory it could be from break in, but I've got over 12K on the motor and this was the 2nd oil change after factory fill -- wouldn't all the wear particles be long gone???
Any thoughts?
EDIT: Did some research, and actually, this all does indeed look good to nomal. Looks like several of the wear metal numbers don't really start coming down on this motor until 15-20K.