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Any VOA requests?
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Solid! I’ll try to do this Thursday when I have day off and send it via Post Office. UPS store is joke wanting $20~
I can add CK-4 to the Diesel List if you want too.
Post office charged me $6 to send sample to donaldsons lab in IL
No VII Euro 10W-20
Well, the HPL CK-4 5w30 is on way to Hoffman Estates IL donaldson lab. I’ll send voa of HPL 10w20 “euro” NO VII soon.
I would like to see a VOA on BMW Advantec Ultimate 5W-40 and Castrol Power 1 5W-40 motorcycle oils. There is a lot of discussion about whether it is close to Castrol Power 1 in 5W-40 since Castrol is one of the two suppliers of BMW oil (the other is Shell), and there are NO stats on this oil anywhere. BMW does not publicize a PDS either. THANK YOU!!
I’m wondering what’s up with Donaldson lab in Illinois. Sent both samples in last Monday. Should have arrived Wednesday 
No results yet
No results yet
@FarmForce seems to be rather similiar to the Shell Advance
https://oil-club.de/index.php?thread/15258-bmw-advantec-ultimate-5w-40/
https://www.oil-club.ru/forum/topic/79137-shell-advance-4t-ultra-scooter-5w-40-svezhee/
https://oil-club.de/index.php?thread/15258-bmw-advantec-ultimate-5w-40/
https://www.oil-club.ru/forum/topic/79137-shell-advance-4t-ultra-scooter-5w-40-svezhee/
Redline High Performance 10w-50 will be posted soon.
Can anyone here possibly help me? I sent two samples to this address. Haven’t got a email of the VOA results. Is this still a valid address?
Thank You.
Thank You.
To update this; ISPS gave me the shaft or never even delivered my samples. I got my refund back from them too. Such a joke. Now stick with using UPS store so I have to take new samples and send out tomorrow. Sending them to WIX lab in GEORGIA.
USPS lost 3 of our Christmas cards going to my niece and nephews. Mid-December, it showed them going to the nearest city/hub to them and then suddenly diverting halfway across the country before disappearing completely. There was cash money in those cards too which I will never do again. I did an online transfer to my brother for their cash and was over 3 weeks later before USPS finally refunded me.
Yeah, I won’t ever trust anything USPS again.
This oil is on way to Norcross GA lab as of today
Well, that could be! As far as I can see from a little research ... it's confusing! Not too long ago (in 2023) Castrol announced it is BMW's supplier for RoW motorcycle oil (I'd assume it is identical or similar to Castrol Power 1 in 5W-40) and Shell announced being the supplier of BMW oil for the NA market. Now Shell has announced they supplied all BMW motorcycle oil for the world since 2015 (see pic). Also, except for the scooter oil there is no Shell Advance motor oil in 5W-40 listed anywhere in Shell's information. Further, the Russian Scooter oil analysis compared to the German analysis you listed shows two oils of different viscosities (and the German VOA test values are out of spec for a 5W-40). The Shell scooter oil is also not a top-shelf motor oil by any means and BMW has said that its Advantec is exclusively formulated for BMW. Maybe it's the scooter oil
but I seriously doubt it! A VOA of the US version of Advantec would be helpful. I especially want to compare it to Castrol Power 1 5W-40 since I can get that stuff for $53 / box of 6 qts. plus $18 for the oil filter (so a single oil change would cost me $44.50) while a 3 qts. Advantec oil change kit w/ filter is at least $82
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Funny, I sent the Redline sample to Blackstone on Monday via USPS Ground Advantage and the tracking shows the package departing our town, returning three days later and now in transit....to our town.
This morning after changing oil in the daily driver Focis I used UPS store to mail UOA sample to WIX lab in Georgia. I’m anxious as cat in room full of rocking chairs
I would also like to thank you for all of your effort. I would like to see any metric (Jaso), 10W30 or 40 oil
You mean a motorcycle oil?
Yes. Jaso is a certification for shared sump ( same oil for engine, transmission and wet clutch), motorcycles
