Motul 8100 E-Tech Lite 0W30 UOA

[Dale_Knight]

Originally Posted By: JAG
Could you please PM me where the place where you bought this oil and what it cost with shipping? Thanks.


PM sent.

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[Dale_Knight]

Originally Posted By: Dale_Knight
Hi Buster, I can't say about the other Motul oil products as I haven't looked closely at them, however the Motul 8100 ETech Lite 0W30 jug has '100% Ester oil' printed in big letters on the front label.


Sorry that should read '100% Synthetic'

...although the container does read 'ester' just below the 'E-tech lite' but that doesn't give an indication of how much ester is really in the oil.

The Motul Canada website describes the 8100 E-tech lite 0W30 product as 'ester synthetic bases'

http://www.motul-canada.com/main.htm

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[buster]

Dale, thanks. I read your post earlier thought maybe they had changed it. Only the 300V is 100% ester. The others are "ester based", which really tells you nothing other than it contains esters. I was told the others are grp III/IV/V.

 

[Dale_Knight]

As a further I mostly post at a mainly 05+ Nissan Pathfinder website about those truck's concerns, of which lubricant selection is only one, but have posted this BITOG thread link there, so maybe some will get further from the value of doing VOA/UOA oil checks;

http://www.thenissanpath.com/index.php

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[Dale_Knight]

Originally Posted By: buster
Dale, thanks. I read your post earlier thought maybe they had changed it. Only the 300V is 100% ester. The others are "ester based", which really tells you nothing other than it contains esters. I was told the others are grp III/IV/V.


Thanks Buster, as far as I can see from the Motul 300V oil cans or jugs oil it appears that the 300V in it's various grades reads the same as the 8100 series oils; ie: 100% synthetic and somewhere at the top of the label 'ester' with no indication of percentages or amounts of esters used. I've never seen anywhere in the sales info where the 300V series describes itself as 100% ester oil so you must have got some inside info. Thanks again as I've often thought that a quart of one of the 300V's might work as a makeup oil if one was thinking of changing filters in mid-OCI's.

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[buster]

Oil held up well. I have seen quite a few good Motul UOA's.