I Just Did My First Oil Change Today On My 2025 Ford Bronco Sport, and the Oil Has a Green Look To It, Has Anyone Ever Seen Such a Thing, and Should I Be Worried

I've used an oil made by LiquiMoly a few times recently that is bright green like coolant. Just do an image search and you'll see it.

The green tint is dye tracer added to factory oil when new.If you are looking for leak with a UV light it will appear bright yellow and be easier to trace where the leak originates from.So don't be alarmed at the color,it is not coolant.

Oil dye. Used to check for leaks as they run the new engine after vehicle is manufactured. Flourescent.They inspect with blacklight to make sure no oil leaks. We use this in the shop to check customers cars when complaining of oil leak.

They might use a dye that has a fluorescent marker to identify leaks with a black light.

Sadly the models with the 1.5 liter engine are famous for having this issue ongoing since 2021. Looks like they haven’t fixed the problem.

I have seen certain German Castrol oils that are this color. Perhaps they are using this as a factory fill?

The greenish tint oil must be used in all Ford's new vehicles. I changed my Maverick's break in oil at about 1500 miles same thing. It was the worst looking stuff I every drained out of an engine. All the other fluid levels were fine. Someone told me Ford uses a blend of synthetic and organic oil. Still I'm glad I got it out of there. I have used Mobil One synthetic oil in every car I've owned for the past 20 yrs. Love it.

I use a penn oil brand in my baja bug that is green right out of the bottle..

I think they could be right. Agreed using green is a bad idea if they're also using green coolant, but I bet it's that fluorescent green stuff so they may just shine.a blacklight under the hood and look for anything glowing.

If coolant were in the oil, it would become cloudy. I'd vote a break in oil with tracer dye. Green is a common color for tracer dye, and the human eye can see green more easily than a lot of other colors. Also, no word if it fluoresces under UV light, like many tracer dyes do.

It’s break in oil.

Probably a uv reactive dye added in by the factory, we put it in our machine coolant pumps to trace out leaks. If one of those ford techs carries a flashlight with a uv bulb ask them to shine it at the greenish oil and see what happens.

Just did my first oil change on a 2024 Bronco Sport at 2,200 miles. It indeed had a green tint and I was initially concerned it was coolant. Glad to see this seems to be a normal occurrence.

I have two questions:
1. Why is this person changing oil in a brand new vehicle, shouldn't that be included from the dealership for the first X years or miles?
2. (Most importantly) Why does every Ford technician not know this if that is a common practice? I blame that on the manufacturer not the staff at dealerships.

My guy, have you ever seen a UV dye that wasn't green?

Coolant will not mix with oil. Water will but not coolant.

I’ll make a guess that if you used a “black light”, the oil would glow. This would add to the thinking about leak detection because the dye they put in the oil would leave a “track” on the engine when viewed with a black light.

The oil on the first oil change should have a green tint. That means they used plenty of engine assembly lube, which is green BTW. If there wasn't a green tint I would be a little worried.

The coolant is pink not green hello

This is the new Vegan oil made from plants.

When you checked the oil on the dipstick was it green too?

I seen on the news where these vehicles were recalled this week, said to have them towed to dealership,do not drive,

I would think the oil would be milky if it had coolant in it.

Yes I have drained green oil out of a few Fords. No need to worry it’s factory oil upon the build so it stays lucid longer. If you had bad head gaskets your oil would have a lot of bubbles in it when drained. The dreaded “Milkshake” in the oil pan.