Originally Posted By: Vigg
Might be a dumb question but how does the 5w-40 stack up to the 0w-40? I have personally run the 0w-40 in my old S3 and it returned very good UOA. I always hear how great the 0w-40 is but don't hear much about this 5w-40? Anyone have VOA or UOA of it?
5W-40 doesn’t look as good on paper (mainly due to lack of 229.5), and is frequently trashed here when compared to 0W-40. However, I think a lot of that is just opinion. I don’t know anyone that has stacked them up against each other in a like for like comparison.