Good report!
The original Printing of the owners manual specifies:Nice looking results.
The thing that confuses me a bit is that the Motorcraft website shows only FULL Synthetic for its 0W20 viscosity, not semi or blend, on the label. A) Was the blend eliminated? B) or is it just one product with a name change to full synthetic? (I believe Delvac 1300 did something like that a few years ago - changed the name to synthetic from blend without any apparent formulation change).
As you probably know, that 2.5L hybrid engine is bulletproof. I put just under 210,000 miles on a 2010 Fusion Hybrid and the engine showed no signs of fatigue. I used Motorcraft FULL synthetic 5W20 for the first 100K and Mobil 1 0W20 EP the rest of the way. NYC cabbies routinely put over 400,000 miles on the non hybrid versions.
Do you have any future plans on running a Valvoline, Pennzoil or Mobil 1 products in that engine for comparison?
I actually have 14 quarts of the blend still in stock. We obviously rarely sell it OTC and in the shop we have the 0W20 in bulk. I could really use the space too.I do believe that @bdcardinal recently posted that the blend was no more, which might explain why i got FS on one change recently. Its also possible that what's in there is not actually what they bill out, though they have proven to be pretty good and accommodating.