5w-30 Euro formula motor oil

[wpod]

This car won't see alot of mileage. So far, in 3 months we're almost at 1K miles.

Buy the lowest cost oil that meets the manufactures specs.

 

[2EHA]

esp is a beast but it’s expensive. euro l and castrol ll are always being discounted

if you want to drop big cash on oil wait till esp x3 0w40 enters the us market

 

[Propflux01]

Uh oh, hopefully I didn't buy the last three in the world. FWIW the last time that happened it came back in a day or two. Like you say hopefully it will be back soon.

If you did, you will automatically be inducted into the hades of BITOG for oil hoarders!

 

[Zee09]

I wait till the ESP is on sale at Napa for $5 and change and buy 3-4 cases, everything here including OPE is on ESP 5w30 or M1 0w40 (all are Euro cars and one Subaru.
My experience with Penzoil Euro oils have been less than stellar, I ran the LX 0w30 in the VW 2.0T and it started drinking oil and had a poor UOA.
The engine never used any measurable oil between 5K OCI on Castrol or M1 0w40 with the LX the thing was going through a qt every 600 miles, went back to M1 0w40 and the oil consumption returned to normal. No explanation, it is baffling as to why this happened, that was over 3 years ago and still no measurable oil consumption today. Compression remains between 197 and 200 psi with around 5 psi leak down.

That is not to say it is common or will happen in another engine but it happened to this one and it is mine so I know it was real.
Personally I stay with Mobil 1 or if I didnt have any I would and have used Castrol 0w40.

What was once made from gas returns to gas....

 

[SugarMouth]

I'm looking for a motor oil to start using in my 2021 Mercedes C300. I'm looking at M1 ESP and Penzoil Platinum euro formula. They both meet Mercedes requirements. I'd be getting 5w-30. M1 is about twice the price? Aren't they equivalent quality oils? Thanks

I'm running this in my GLC300.

Robot or human?

 

[nomas]

Grade is irrelevant and so is brand for that matter.

The Amsoil guys heads exploded ....

 

[Trav]

What was once made from gas returns to gas....

This was the LX 0w30 and I can only guess it broke down quickly, the closer to 5K it got the more oil it used. The 5w30 may play totally different.

 

[edyvw]

Run MB229.52 oil bcs. LSPI test. Mobil1 ESP 0W30 and 5W30 both have MB229.52 and Valvoline XLIII.

 

[Ibrahim]

I'm looking for a motor oil to start using in my 2021 Mercedes C300. I'm looking at M1 ESP and Penzoil Platinum euro formula. They both meet Mercedes requirements. I'd be getting 5w-30. M1 is about twice the price? Aren't they equivalent quality oils? Thanks

Did you find the oil you were looking for? Pennzoil/Quakerstate seems like the cheapest avail options in 5W-30 grade meeting MB 229.51 spec

 

[kschachn]

And its already out of stock... I hope its not gone forever there.

FWIW Walmart.com shows it back in stock but a slightly longer delivery time. That's what happened the last time when it was out for only a couple of days. Still on rollback for $21.62.