It is a daily driver - it sees a mix of highway and around town.
In the past 10,000 miles, it’s done several long distance road trips.
At least half of the miles though tend to be just running errands around town.
HPL 5W40 Supercar 10,137 miles 2005 Mercedes S600 M275
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In the past 10,000 miles, it’s done several long distance road trips.
At least half of the miles though tend to be just running errands around town.
What fuel you run on it?
Exxon most frequently. Shell. Sunoco. All are 93 octane. I don’t really notice a difference in fuel performance, but I rarely, and I mean rarely, put my foot all the way down.
You restrain yourself on the road because you get to use TO/GA? Or because in an S600 the gas pedal is more like police attractant?
It goes 0-60 in about 4 seconds - so, in Virginia Beach, I am going from a full stop to a ticket in about 3 seconds.You need to put your foot down 80 percent routinely…
Just to live a little.
It goes from 60-120 in about 6 seconds - so, again, legal to ticket in under 2 seconds.
One has to be rather careful about full throttle in that car.
As a note - the SL600 is much quicker and one has to be really careful in that car!
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15133112/mercedes-benz-sl600-instrumented-test/
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an Italian Tune-Up (German Tune-Up in your case) is A MUST to keep the carbon away. Isn’t that what the Doctors say? 
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Yes, some of the VOAs of HPL show as high as 12ppm Al; Dave said this is a byproduct of the manufacturing process of some of the additives IIRC and is not really “12 ppm of Al particles” floating around. I would personally subtract from a UOA similar to virgin silicon & oxidation numbers.
That's a nifty tool, I buy large disposable cheap syringes from Amazon and clean tubing but may pick this up.
Woah, great info and likely why my Al is higher now than originally way back when on my trend before using HPL.Yes, some of the VOAs of HPL show as high as 12ppm Al; Dave said this is a byproduct of the manufacturing process of some of the additives IIRC and is not really “12 ppm of Al particles” floating around. I would personally subtract from a UOA similar to virgin silicon & oxidation numbers.
Nifty, indeed!
You screw the sample jar from the HPL kit into the tool. Insert the tubing in the top, and tighten the fitting. A couple pumps establish vacuum inside the sample jar.
Oil flows in. Hit the vacuum release when it’s near full.
Unscrew the jar, put on the lid, dispose of the tubing.
The tool doesn’t even get dirty. Very neat. Very clean.
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Below is a link/comment straight from the man himself, though referring to one of their other oils l I imagine its a similar story across the board with HPL, they all have very high amounts of moly.
https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/t...icants-diesel-pdss.344424/page-2#post-5857479
Nice work digging that up!
It is fun to experience how these German cars settle in at speed.Boo!!!
When I talked to mobile 1 yesterday, they told me that supercar 5W-50 and their euro 5W-50 were different. A couple of things that they told me were different was 1200 ppm zinc in the Supercar oil and only 1000 in the Euro. Plus, if I remember correctly, there was more phosphorus in the supercar.
I should’ve asked them how long the Supercar 5w-50 is good for when you track the car and daily drive it.
I have a 2022 Mach 1 Mustang with the 5 L coyote and about 9400 miles on it. Everything I’ve read so far says to always change to fresh oil before you track and after you track.
I’m wondering since I’m using Mobile 1supercar 5W-50 would it be OK to change to that before I go to Summit Point track for about 80 minutes? Then just leave the oil in for another 5000 miles or so, since it has heat exchangers for all the fluids, including the oil cooler and it holds 10 quarts of oil? And after all, it is Supercar 5W-50.
And would it be different if I was going to VIR Virginia international raceway, which is a bigger faster track?
Thank you.
I should’ve asked them how long the Supercar 5w-50 is good for when you track the car and daily drive it.
I have a 2022 Mach 1 Mustang with the 5 L coyote and about 9400 miles on it. Everything I’ve read so far says to always change to fresh oil before you track and after you track.
I’m wondering since I’m using Mobile 1supercar 5W-50 would it be OK to change to that before I go to Summit Point track for about 80 minutes? Then just leave the oil in for another 5000 miles or so, since it has heat exchangers for all the fluids, including the oil cooler and it holds 10 quarts of oil? And after all, it is Supercar 5W-50.
And would it be different if I was going to VIR Virginia international raceway, which is a bigger faster track?
Thank you.
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