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Moly and boron are anti-wear additives, not a contaminant.
No amount of boutique, 100% Group IV stock oil is going to affect anything meaningful.
I tend to agree with that. What would be interesting is to compare wear rates of such engine materials to the cold weather starting/running vs warm weather climate use. I find that starting my low mileage GTI when it is below freezing, has a noticeable engine noise until its warmed just a wee bit. I always maintain that starting a car once with cold oil in a cold climate (especially 0 degrees F or less) is probably equal to driving a few thousand miles warm.
I live on the water and I have to air compressor my engine bay every few weeks there's always sand in the little nooks. My house gets vacuumed multiple times a week lolThis UOA report reminds me that in another forum a car owner switched brands of oil because he had a small amount of silicon in two UOA reports. He was certain the oil he was using produced silicon until I explained to him that silicon is sand or dust that is typically drawn in thru a lose vacuum hose or improperly fitted air filter. After correcting the problem his UOA showed no more silicon to speak of.
Blackstone seems good, but they charge extra for TBN analysis, which is a good piece of information.
Some oils when you do a VOA, have presence of silicon in it, which is from a defoaming additive.