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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;izifaddag, post: 8180654, member: 42307&quot;]A last word about oil sampling.</p><p>I and almost everyone else who buys a truck doesn&#039;t have time for that.</p><p>Whenever I have taken an oil sample I have had to mail it off to a lab somewhere.</p><p>After the post does their magic they will eventually get around to analyzing it and email me the results. This usually takes from between 2 to 3 weeks.</p><p>Meanwhile I am losing money waiting on this oil sample result.</p><p>The result email turns up - hooray !! It says all is well. So off you go and buy the truck.</p><p>The oil sample result comes it and it is not ok - Boo !!</p><p>Now I have to invest another couple of months looking for and buying another truck.</p><p>I do not have that sort of time.</p><p>It is true that when oil is changed you do not clean out all nooks and crannies so residue will be left. The only exception is with enthusiasts who flush an engine and I am sure that is not 99.99% of us. Also true that putting it on a dymo will &#039;exercise&#039; the engine and release contaminants into the fresh oil.</p><p>Unfortunately the only relatively local (it was 60 miles away re the Lincoln purchase) place to get a quick oil sample is Speedco. Hardly a substitute for a proper lab. As for a dymo I wouldn&#039;t know where to start looking for one of those in a random town / city in the USA. A little bit rare.</p><p>It is regrettable but I can&#039;t turn buying a truck into another job.</p><p>Whenever you buy a 2nd hand vehicle you always buy some problems. The entire thing is a gamble you just do your best with all the circumstances involved.&nbsp; </p><p>If you already have a truck and are looking to buy a second one or a third then you are making money already. You can take your time. If the salesman wants to sell it to someone else then fine he can do that. No problem continue looking and it will all work out.</p><p>If you have one truck and are bleeding money from every orifice while you are looking and purchasing a truck then no this isn&#039;t going to happen.</p><p>It isn&#039;t a case of &quot;due diligence&quot; it is case of back against the wall with bills to pay.</p><p>I actually made this clear through the course of the thread but I guess it needed repeating.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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