Soot is known to cause engine wear. In this work, we focus on how engine oil formulation affects sootrelated wear, and how the lubricant-derived anti-wear fi lm changes when soot is present. Friction and wear experiments of fully and partially formulated diesel engine oils (containing basestock, dispersants and viscosity modifi ers) are conducted with a ball-on-disk rig in the presence of carbon black (CB) as a soot surrogate. The friction coeffi cient was largely unaffected by CB dispersed in the oils, but electrically insulating fi lm formation, an indication of the formation of anti-wear fi lms, was decreased. Wear on the disk was found to either remain the same or decrease when CB was present, depending on the oil formulation. An examination of the lubricant-derived fi lms using Raman and Auger electron spectroscopies found that the presence of more abundant amorphous carbon and lesser amounts of anti-wear fi lm components on the surface was associated with higher wear.