Lubricating oil is used to reduce wear and friction of moving engine parts, thus essential for the performance and lifetime of the equipment increases. In automotive lubricants, there is often the presence of some ions of metallic elements and their occurrence in oil comes from two main sources of added additive or wear of engine parts. Increased amounts of some elements in the lubricating oil may indicate the extent of wear of engine components. Therefore, an elemental analysis of used lubricating oils may indicate the need for preventive maintenance of motors before irreversible damage occurs. The X-ray fluorescence technique dispersive energy (EDXRF) has the disadvantage of not having sufficient sensitivity for the determination of trace amounts of elements.To overcome this problem a pre-sample concentration step is necessary prior to analysis by EDXRF. Thus, this paper describes a method of pre-concentration for Ca, Cr, V, Fe, Ni and Zn in lubricating oil using the ring oven technique, and quantification of EDXRF. With the automation of ring oven technique it was possible to prepare rings using 250 µL of sample (2% w/w lubricating oil in toluene), 50 µL of toluene, and 500 µL carrier solution (30% v/v acetic acid in ethanol) added to the silica plate heated to 90 °C, with fixed volumes of 36 µL aliquots to the sample and 44 µL into toluene and the solution drag, with 30 seconds intervals. Recoveries for Cr, V and Fe are in the range of 92-118%, and the measured values of Ca and Zn to the SRM 1848 were 109% and 117%, respectively. The results of the determination to Ca and Zn in four new lube oil samples proved to be consistent with the values obtained by the reference method, mineralization / ICP OES. The pre-concentration procedure required only ten minutes while the ring formed measures required in total twenty-seven minutes. Furthermore, preconcentration of the ring oven system method presented repeatability and stability of rings for lubricating oil samples.