Hi all, sometime in the last year I posted that in Canada, motomaster brand oil which is sold exclusively at Canadian Tire had come out with weights of oil specifically for European cars. The oil comes in 0w30, 0w40 and 5w40 variants. On the back of the bottle, these variants stated they meet or exceed the typical vw, bmw and mercedes standard... what got me interested in this oil, and why I started using it is for the fact that it said "MB-Approval xxx.x" on the back, versus just "MB xxx.x". Knowing that if it says "MB-Approval xxx.x", then it means that this oil must have been tested by mercedes and be approved on their bevo list... well, this oil isn't on there bevo list as of the last update on April 14, 2021, so I went on the Canadian tire website, and when trying to look at an image of the back of the bottle, each weight for the euro formula has the picture removed, and, in the description on the site, it no longer says "MB-Approval xxx.x", but rather "MB xxx.x"
So this got me wondering... why was this oil originally being advertised as "MB-Approval xxx.x", if it clearly isn't, since it's not even on the bevo website... I drive an old jetta diesel and have used this oil, and i'm a little bit irked by the fact that it seems like this product that was advertised as approved by Mercedes, now isn't... I'm not worried about it being a bad oil, my car runs just fine and i'm sure a UOA analysis would show that, and plus it's got 250k miles so i'm not concerened, but i'm more so annoyed... I wouldn't have bought this product had it not actually been approved for use in a mercedes (I know I drive a vw but if it's approved to mercedes standards i'm sure it would be vw approved too).
Here are the new links to the specific weights
Thoughts?
Edit: The 0w30 still seems to carry the MB-approval on the back of the bottle, but not the 0w40 or 5w40 (at least, there are no pictures of the back of the bottle anymore on the Canadian Tie website)
So this got me wondering... why was this oil originally being advertised as "MB-Approval xxx.x", if it clearly isn't, since it's not even on the bevo website... I drive an old jetta diesel and have used this oil, and i'm a little bit irked by the fact that it seems like this product that was advertised as approved by Mercedes, now isn't... I'm not worried about it being a bad oil, my car runs just fine and i'm sure a UOA analysis would show that, and plus it's got 250k miles so i'm not concerened, but i'm more so annoyed... I wouldn't have bought this product had it not actually been approved for use in a mercedes (I know I drive a vw but if it's approved to mercedes standards i'm sure it would be vw approved too).
Here are the new links to the specific weights
Thoughts?
Edit: The 0w30 still seems to carry the MB-approval on the back of the bottle, but not the 0w40 or 5w40 (at least, there are no pictures of the back of the bottle anymore on the Canadian Tie website)
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