New at Walmart Pennzoil Full Synthetic High Mileage and Mobil 1 Hybrid 0W20
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It isn't that cheap anymore unfortunately. It's 30 for me too.
Wack. I'm switching to castrol after this run anyways
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The Pennzoil Full Synthetic High Mileage looks to piggyback off the All Mileage (Synthetic blend) Quaker State in marketing it towards new cars as well as older, per it's PDS. Valvoline was the first to do so, as i remember.
It's my guess that they're trying to attain some new shelf space. I highly doubt these are going to be big movers so paying for a license is probably not worth it. The people who are chasing down the licenses for dexos essentially would be general motors owners only cuz it's their spec it's not something that anybody else created. I would look more to the acea specifications and just find the proper oil and use it. To be fair, this would be a decent budget synthetic oil that you're not getting tied up in the being the consumer and paying for these labels. It appears lately that motor oil has taken on a higher than usual price increase and some people would soon just have a decent oil and not worry about all the fancy lettering. I'm willing to bet they're also trying to hit a price point and they too realize that the oils that they've had on the shelves while they might be a higher tier or certification if they can't get that oil to move it's going to sit on the shelf and oil that sits on the shelf doesn't sell an oil that doesn't sell gets kicked out or put on clearance to never return.
Hybrid 0W-20 is on the official Gen 3 list.
Toyota doesn't have any particular approvals and at this point Honda HTO-06 probably doesn't matter much like GM 4718m and 6094m, ILSAC GF-6A and Dexos 1G3 are likely more stringent.
Most consumers are not educated or smart enough to know the difference so marketing works to sell more. It's sad to see how population's getting dumbed down on purpose and the process is accelerating lately.
I just compared the PDS of the 0w20 AFE and the 0w20 Hybrid Mobil 1 and the differences are very small (probably statistically insignificant) except that the Pour Point of AFE is lower (-51*C vs -42*C for the Hybrid version) and the Flash Point is higher on the AFE (229*C vs. 225*C for the Hybrid version).
My guess is the 15K vs. 10K 'protection guarantee' is based on the assumption that the Hybrid will be running on battery for 1/3 of the time.)
My guess is the 15K vs. 10K 'protection guarantee' is based on the assumption that the Hybrid will be running on battery for 1/3 of the time.)
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Annnnnd since GM is phasing out those dirty ICE then we will just need EV gearbox oil and cooling systems stuff for GM in the future!
SOoooooo . . . if you have a 'hybrid' power plant in your vehicle, and you use non hybrid rated oil in the ICE part, does that mean all the codes go off and Ernst Klaus Schwabfeld everything shuts down ? 
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