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[buster]

German Castrol = SLX in the U.K. ?
Formula SLX 0w-30


Unique fuel saving characteristics - free flowing qualities and exceptionally low frictional characteristics

This is most likely why this oil makes most engines quiet.


They list 2 other 0w-30 syntecs. The other, is a very light viscosity version that is used in Volvos and appears to be as thin as the old American stuff.

SLX - R Tec 0w-30

 

[pscholte]

buster,

Thanks for providing these links.

Unless they change the label on GC to reflect A5/B5 it still has to have an HT/HS > 3.4. So the new stuff must have a high shear resistance even though it has been reported as being "thin."

 

[buster]

pscholte, the Formula SLX 0w-30 isn't thin. It's 12.2 cSt at 100C. The link at the bottom is the thin stuff, which I thought might have been the old American 0w-30. What I am saying is that the SLX is GC.

It also lists the HT/HS of 3.5 for the SLX which I'm almost positive is the GC here in the US. If you read the PDS and what it says about it, it's clearly that oil.

 

[Paranoil]

Just to muddy the waters a bit, this version of SLX has now started appearing on shELVES over here. SLX Longtec

It was occupying the space where the great green

SLX should have been

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And, no I don't know what colour it is: The bottles have a tamper-proof seal on them, and the staff in auto stores start getting stropy if you open the bottle up to view, sniff and taste the oil

 

[goodvibes]

I thought that Longtec had become the consensus.

 

[buster]

Paranoil, I believe that is the same one as posted above. How many Syntec Lontec 0w-30's are their over there? What is the difference between this SLX and Lontec? Castrol is a pain in the @ss!!