Yeah, D1/Gen2 is far from VW504.00/507.00 requirements. Not even close.Castrol , Mobil 1 , Pennzoil , Quaker State or Valvoline synthetic 5W30 with D1/Gen 2 ratings ... Take your pick .
Yeah, D1/Gen2 is far from VW504.00/507.00 requirements. Not even close.Castrol , Mobil 1 , Pennzoil , Quaker State or Valvoline synthetic 5W30 with D1/Gen 2 ratings ... Take your pick .
Any synthetic should be good personally I like Castrol, Valvoline and Royal Purple synthetics the best.
It's Mobil1, all Mobil1 products are full synthetic as it's Exxon-Mobil's flagship brand of synthetic oil.But Mobil 1 ESP 5W30 is not fully synthetic I believe?
Do not fall for "meets and exceeds" garbage!
API does not have approval process.Mobil 1 ESP "meets or exceeds" SN rating according to the Mobil website.
Does you criticism still apply here? They are "too cheap" to pay for the cert and/or dishonest in their advertising? j/k
Yeah, but I am not sure there is any approval process like VW, Mercedes etc. are running.View attachment 33560
ESP certainly shows up in the API license database.
In what way is it "not even close"? How are the specs / requirements different?Yeah, D1/Gen2 is far from VW504.00/507.00 requirements. Not even close.
In what way is it "not even close"? How are the specs / requirements different?
Just so I'm clear about what the graph represents, does the greater area covered by the VW504 numbers represent more thickening, deposits, sludge, wear, etc., and less fuel efficiency? In other words, a less "quality" oil?
More betterJust so I'm clear about what the graph represents, does the greater area covered by the VW504 numbers represent more thickening, deposits, sludge, wear, etc., and less fuel efficiency? In other words, a less "quality" oil?
No, dark area represents more stringent requirements. Soot thickening in D1 Gen2 is 0. There cannot be 0! That means there is no requirement whatsoever by GM when it comes to soot thickening. So not even close.Just so I'm clear about what the graph represents, does the greater area covered by the VW504 numbers represent more thickening, deposits, sludge, wear, etc., and less fuel efficiency? In other words, a less "quality" oil?
Just so I'm clear about what the graph represents, does the greater area covered by the VW504 numbers represent more thickening, deposits, sludge, wear, etc., and less fuel efficiency? In other words, a less "quality" oil?
But we all do it anyway
Only SDS I could find for the HPS 5w-30 is from 2018, but that may still be current. Shows 10-25% PAO, rest is Group III:
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Whereas the Mobil product appears to be 30-40% GTL, per the above MSDS from wemay, a dash (1-5%) of PAO and whatever the rest of the base blend is doesn't have to be shown on an MSDS, so perhaps it is one of the Esterex products.
The larger area covered, the better the protection in all areas. The further out it goes, the better protection in that specific area. This is just a loose comparison as Lubrizol (who supply the graph) warn against using the tool to compare between different certification/approval processes. For instance, the tool is meant to compare all VW approvals to each other, not necessarily VW to BMW to API to GM dexos, etc. But we all do it anyway.
By Estera I assume you mean esters? If so, I'd expect it would be an Esterex product from Mobil's Ester portfolio.Oil-club.ru mobil1 5w30 ESP
The FTIR spectrum presumably indicates that the oil is based on GTL + Estera. (Most likely there are some more PAO and VHVI ). It is synthetic