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So I find myself in the possession of a 2013 ZD30 Common Rail Diesel Nissan Patrol no DPF and EGR has been deleted....
I'm in Australia and there seems to be a lot of issues here with these engines (mostly the previous gen Direct Injection no so much with the Common Rail)....but from doing a bit of research there seems to be issues with cooling piston no 4 and high EGTs (Exhaust Gas Temperatures) that blow these engines....a lot of people here use HDEO oil for diesels mostly 15w40 mineral or semi-synth....I wonder if that has something to do with it......on a lot of the forums here the most recommended oil is 15w40 15w50 for diesel engines (all these oils here are mineral or semi)..
Also moving form the UK I find that mineral oil and semi syn. is mostly what you find in the shops here and full syn is quite hard to find / limited ....where in the UK pretty much all oils were full syn...
And what made me post this is that I've read here somewhere that if you have a diesel without DPF/EGR you are actually better off using A3/B4 oil instead of diesel specific... I've attached below pictures of the manual (this is from 2013 so I'm assuming a lot has changes since then regarding engine oil...)
An interesting footnote in the manual is **For Pickup models in South Africa only API grade CF-4 or JASO DH-1 grade oil is recommended**
And this is what I got to go in it as it's been run on mineral 15w40 for the last couple of years (info from the previous owner)...
I'm in Australia and there seems to be a lot of issues here with these engines (mostly the previous gen Direct Injection no so much with the Common Rail)....but from doing a bit of research there seems to be issues with cooling piston no 4 and high EGTs (Exhaust Gas Temperatures) that blow these engines....a lot of people here use HDEO oil for diesels mostly 15w40 mineral or semi-synth....I wonder if that has something to do with it......on a lot of the forums here the most recommended oil is 15w40 15w50 for diesel engines (all these oils here are mineral or semi)..
Also moving form the UK I find that mineral oil and semi syn. is mostly what you find in the shops here and full syn is quite hard to find / limited ....where in the UK pretty much all oils were full syn...
And what made me post this is that I've read here somewhere that if you have a diesel without DPF/EGR you are actually better off using A3/B4 oil instead of diesel specific... I've attached below pictures of the manual (this is from 2013 so I'm assuming a lot has changes since then regarding engine oil...)
An interesting footnote in the manual is **For Pickup models in South Africa only API grade CF-4 or JASO DH-1 grade oil is recommended**
And this is what I got to go in it as it's been run on mineral 15w40 for the last couple of years (info from the previous owner)...
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