Oil for 2022 Gladiator with 3rd Gen 3.0L EcoDiesel
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dnewton3
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The Triax in your photo isn't 5w-40; it's 5w-30 ... for whatever that's worth to you.
Several of the Triax recommendations are “meets or exceeds”, and does not carry the actual certification, I.e. they claim some of the MB or Porsche certs but are not actually listed as approved on MB/Porsche website. Going to a 2nd tier brand, I’d make sure it carried the actual cert, especially when there are plenty of top-name brands that actually have the certs for the same price.
After talking with Triax, their Euro LX 5w-40 oil meets all the specifications (API SP & MS-12991) plus it is a mid-SAPS oil too. So I placed an order to try it. Note: this is different than the Euro VX oil in the previous pictures which is a C3 oil. Attached is a picture of the specs for the Euro LX 5w-40 oil.
Please follow up with a UOA after your run if you can.
edyvw
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Oh NO!!
One wonders sometimes what the motivation is regarding this brand when low-cost alternatives exist which actually have the approvals they claim to have.
Yes, wait a 10 seconds or so after drain starts then slip the bottle that comes with a UOA kit in the stream. Fill it at least 3/4 full. They'll include a paper to fill out, ship it back the the lab, & then wait for an email of your results.
Please tell me why? Do you have some inside info?
If you know of an oil with these approvals that is mid-SAPS, please advise.
Which approvals? Do you mean MS-12991? That’s a material specification, not an approval. And not one that I’d be concerned about given manufacturer approvals and what they require.
Many oils have the approvals that Triax lists but does not have. Which ones are you asking about?
Are any of these oils you have in mind mid-SAPS oils that are DPF friendly? Or are they high-SAPS oils?
OVERKILL
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I love how that bottle has multiple conflicting claims of compliance for approvals that apply to totally different ACEA categories.
OVERKILL
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That's not a mid-SAPS oil, that is full SAPS. A3/B4 is a full-SAPS spec and 1.2 for SA is in the middle of the 0.9-1.6% range.
OVERKILL
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Mobil recommends their FS 5W-40 (and 0W-40) for this application. Given that it has numerous actual OE approvals, I'd be far more inclined to run that.
edyvw
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We have been through Triax debate here several times.
Their pdf's were all over the place. They do not have ANY approval. They use meet and exceed language. They claimed their oils meet specifications that could not actually meet etc.