Thanks Alan for posting your uoa from Blackstone.
By coincidence I also had a uoa done on my 2017 Giulia TI. Slightly longer mileage (3100 mi. on mine) than Alan's but with pretty much similar results (link below to the report).
I've been doing uoa's on my cars (mostly BMW's) since the 80's. The results I got on the TI are pretty much what I expected. Two of the metrics, copper and silicon, were high. That's normal in a new engine. The copper comes mostly from the oil leaching the metal elements out of the copper core oil cooler. The silicon in plain speak could be dirt, but it more than likely comes from the silicon chemical leached out of sealants and gasket material in the engine that the oil comes in contact with. Typically, both these metrics drop fairly rapidly as the engine gets more miles on it. I might mention that the lab I used marked these two metrics as abnormal. That's typical, too. To the labs, elemental limits are elemental limits regardless of whether the engine has 200 miles on it or 200,000 mi.
I'll probably do a uoa on the oil at the 10,000 mi service (the oil will have about 6000 mi on it) and at 10,000 mi. intervals after that. Chalk it up to morbid curiosity more than anything else. Doing these uoa's is really not necessary for a street car that's not heavily modified or run in some strange use (like off-roading in the desert).
Click on this link to see my uoa report (hope this works) -
https://www.eoilreports.com/report/...477287&k=d5e62e93-d231-4cd3-8af3-66e3359b98c8
By coincidence I also had a uoa done on my 2017 Giulia TI. Slightly longer mileage (3100 mi. on mine) than Alan's but with pretty much similar results (link below to the report).
I've been doing uoa's on my cars (mostly BMW's) since the 80's. The results I got on the TI are pretty much what I expected. Two of the metrics, copper and silicon, were high. That's normal in a new engine. The copper comes mostly from the oil leaching the metal elements out of the copper core oil cooler. The silicon in plain speak could be dirt, but it more than likely comes from the silicon chemical leached out of sealants and gasket material in the engine that the oil comes in contact with. Typically, both these metrics drop fairly rapidly as the engine gets more miles on it. I might mention that the lab I used marked these two metrics as abnormal. That's typical, too. To the labs, elemental limits are elemental limits regardless of whether the engine has 200 miles on it or 200,000 mi.
I'll probably do a uoa on the oil at the 10,000 mi service (the oil will have about 6000 mi on it) and at 10,000 mi. intervals after that. Chalk it up to morbid curiosity more than anything else. Doing these uoa's is really not necessary for a street car that's not heavily modified or run in some strange use (like off-roading in the desert).
Click on this link to see my uoa report (hope this works) -
https://www.eoilreports.com/report/...477287&k=d5e62e93-d231-4cd3-8af3-66e3359b98c8
