I have enough HPL left for one more OCI. Right now, I'm running Valvoline R&P because I want to see if I can get it to fully stop burning oil for the duration of the 3,750 mi OCI (it burns about 0.25-0.5 qt, which starts at about 3k-3,250 mi into the OCI). I'm on my second OCI using Valvoline...
This run was a mix of 4qt 5W-40 + 2.9 qt 5W-30. It looks like I forgot to submit the total mileage on the engine in the report. The manual recommends a 3,750 mi interval for the severe maintenance schedule. This one went a bit longer since I went on a 1,600 mile round trip drive during it.
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I found it interesting comparing the X3 and X4 webpages for the ESP 0W-40. The X3 page mentions:
Whereas the X4 page:
I'm curious what the ester content of the X4 is, we know that the X3 had esters.
For reference, ESP 0W-30, ESP 5W-30, FS 0W-40.
This is the PDS of the HPL No VII. I don't understand how the Euro 5W-20 has a HTHS of ~3.27 while the Euro 10W-20 has an HTHS of ~2.8. If we look at the PCMO 0W-20 vs 5W-20, we see their HTHS is almost the same.