Kirkland 5w20 synthetic

[Scott S]

I called Warren distribution and asked him to send me an oil analysis on Kirkland and this is what they sent me.. these values seem a little low...

 

[tasch72]

Looks great to me. To convert weight percentage to PPM, move the decimal 4 places to the right.

This report indicates that the Typical Values for Calcium should be 1350ppm and Zinc is 850ppm for example.

Single digit NOACK is great, viscosity is in spec, flashpoint is high. HTHS is comparable to other 5w-20's.

No reason not to use it.

 

[Chris Meutsch]

I'm running Federated oil right now, which is pretty much this above; I have no concerns over 7k. But I have an easy engine.

 

[Scott S]

Looks great to me. To convert weight percentage to PPM, move the decimal 4 places to the right.

This report indicates that the Typical Values for Calcium should be 1350ppm and Zinc is 850ppm for example.

Single digit NOACK is great, viscosity is in spec, flashpoint is high. HTHS is comparable to other 5w-20's.

No reason not to use it.

It still has me confused.. printed this way..

 

[himemsys]

That's awesome. It would be nice if all oil manufacturers would be so forthright with all their oil lineups!

 

[Scott S]

That's awesome. It would be nice if all oil manufacturers would be so forthright with all their oil lineups!

Yes it would, and not so secretive..

 

[jurko]

Rebranded MAG 1 FS 5W-20 from Warren

 

[Scott S]

I'm curious how this compares, to Supertech 5W20 synthetic also Amazon 5W20 synthetic.? Is it exactly the same?

 

[hagantic]

I'm curious how this compares, to Supertech 5W20 synthetic also Amazon 5W20 synthetic.? Is it exactly the same?

Pretty much. The database of @himemsys shows Kirkland and Supertech all have nearly identical numbers. https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/voa-database.360118/ Also as much he gets mixed feelings here, project farm also tested all 3 and essentially confirmed it with back-to-back blackstone results that were nearly identical.

 

[Scott S]

Thank you for your reply, I did see his sheet, a while ago, I decided to just start running Mobil 1 AFS. Sometime after that. And I just stayed with it.