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Don't want you to mix up Premium Blue Restore and Premium Blue Extreme 5W-40. PB Restore is only presently available at Cummins distributors.

TallPaul I don't want any misinformation being spread on here. I think our technical contact informed you incorrectly. Valvoline does consider the GpIII baseoil we use to be synthetic. Even though we may use GP III in a formulation we may not market it as a synthetic blend.

Synpower MST 5W-30 MST stands for Mid SAPs Technology. SAPs is sulfated ash, Phos, sulfur. The product is primarily designed to meet European ACEA and OEM specifications for gasoline/diesel vehicles that have particulate filters. It is an API SM/CF, ACEA A3/B3/B4/C3 product with OEM approvals...

versus Paulsboro NJ, population 6160.

It's well known in the industry that many sulfur containing compounds (not just MoDTC) can cause issues with "yellow metal" corrosion. MoDTC or similar compunds have been shown to cause this issue in poorly formulated lubricants, but it is fairly easy to "fix" the formulation with well known...

Cheetah NPRA reports show approximately 270 million gallons of 5W-30 projected to be sold for 2008 while 10W-30 is projected to sell about 170 million gallons (US volumes).

I can assure you that the Napa High Mileage oil and Valvoline Maxlife are not the same formulation. Without going into great detail there is less detergent and no moly in the Napa oil and the baseoil mix does not provide the lower volatility that Maxlife provides.

Quote: http://www.mobiloil.com/USA-English/MotorOil/Car_Care/AskMobil/Response_Valvoline_Claims.aspx Anyone notice that this site has been removed?

In the case of our conventional oil, we claim it meets the performance level of MS-6395M. It however is not listed by Chrysler becasue we do not participate in the factory or service fill business. Comparable Synpower products meet all the claims that our conventional oils meet but we have...

Chrysler only reviews data and issues formal approval for this specification if they purchase the product from the supplier for factory fill use or re-brand under the MOPAR name. Valvoline chooses not to participate in this line of business but maintains that our oil meets all the requirements...

“Valvoline has noticed some questions regarding our recent SynPower advertising campaign in the blogosphere and would like to take a minute to address some of them. In our advertising, we state that SynPower 5W-30 provides 4X better wear protection than Mobil 1 5W-30 as measured by the industry...

Quote: It almost implies they they are not superior in the other wear tests... What "other" wear tests are you speaking of? Quote: If Valv had to pick a pass/fail cam wear test to try to claim superiority, makes me wonder why they didn't pick other industry standard engine tests that...

Synpower Promotion

The upper phosphorus limit (0.08wt% max) on API SM oils is only for ILSAC grades (0W-20, 0W-30, 5W-20, 5W-30, 10W-30). Other grades such as monogrades, or 10W-40's 20W-50's etc can exceed the 0.08wt% and still be licensed as API SM.

Quote: Were these KV numbers actual tested data -- or were they pulled from the product data sheets? All viscosities were measured.

About a year ago Valvoline conducted a survey of various 5W-30 conventional products on shear stability and stay-in-grade performance. We went to our local Advance Auto Parts and purchased quarts of the products listed below. We noted that each product was currently labeled with the API SM donut...