Motul Eco Clean 0w20 VOA

[clonebuilder]

Very mediocre despite being a full synthetic with PAO

 

[nascarnation]

18 bucks a liter on Amazon.
If I had a sump full of that, I'd definitely be feeling upscale.
My car would be quieter, accelerate faster, get better fuel economy, and have the cleanest pistons in town.

 

[himemsys]

My car is on a low sodium diet, so I can't use this one.

I'm surprised BS didn't mention this in their comments.

Thanks for posting! I added it to the VOA Database.

 

[kschachn]

It’s amazing when people are able to definitively ascertain the future performance of a motor oil from a $30 spectrographic analysis.

 

[himemsys]

It’s amazing when people are able to definitively ascertain the future performance of a motor oil from a $30 spectrographic analysis.

I don't see anyone doing that in this thread (yet). @nascarnation was being sarcastic. Maybe that's who your jab was directed at?

 

[kschachn]

I don't see anyone doing that in this thread (yet). @nascarnation was being sarcastic. Maybe that's who your jab was directed at?

Very mediocre despite being a full synthetic with PAO

Not a jab, an acknowledgement of the OP's post. I'm also not sure what on that analysis is correlated to a PAO base.

 

[Sandstorm]

View attachment 235851Very mediocre despite being a full synthetic with PAO

Making a deduction such as the oil being mediocre based on a $30 analysis as @kschachn says, is naive. The exact chemistry won't even be revealed using a million dollar LC-MS/MS equipment, even then making such deductions would be naive.

 

[himemsys]

My bad, I did not see the "Very mediocre" hidden on the far right of the post. I just saw "being a full synthetic with PAO"

 

[rayrevolver]

I don't have the depth of knowledge that you folks do. Last time I deep dived oil, I ended up buying lots of German Castrol. So it's been a while.

My wife just picked up a MB that says 229.72 is preferred for fuel economy (0w-20....OMG). I ended up with Eco Clean although I was tempted buy a 229.61 since that is 0 or 5w30, since I would rather sacrifice MPGs to get more protection. Or am I wrong?

This car has a 2.0T with water cooled turbos... Which is modern technology vice what we used in the past???

MB says 10k miles OCI but I'll do 7500 miles.

Anywho, curious if you guys can speak to a good/best 229.72 oil or should I buy what I think is a better oil in the 229.61 spec?