Originally Posted by STIcandy
Originally Posted by BurntMusic
I purchased a quart from pepboys just to test the SN plus formulation. There's a link in my signature to the VOA of it. I don't think it's an error. I too have looked for the PDS on their website and found it to be outdated. Maybe the website hasn't been updated?
I found this PDS from another user here late last year. See the attachment
Thanks for the VOA! I've looked all over the place and couldn't find one.
It seems to me that for an SN+ oil it is on the high side of calcium @ 1400PPM as it is well known to be a promoter of LSPI, most SN+ are sub 1000ppm range. Also the viscosity is fairly wimpy at 12.1 cst being barely a 40wt oil and the Molybdenum is not that high at 89ppm. The TBN of 9.8 seems to be pretty good but that is with the old test being blackstone.
Overall not that impressed. If I'm going to use an oil with that level of calcium, I can think of much better more robust x-30wt oils I would use such as my favourite Motul xclean efe 5w-30. Not an SN+ oil but with A 12.0 cST and a 170 molybdenum count, it should do just as good if not better than this Euro 5w-40.
Yeah it's average to slightly above average in my experience. I also have a VOA of Total Quartz 9000 5w40 (can't put it in signature because it's too many characters). That oil was just calcium!
Link
But yeah Pennzoil has always had a thin 5w40 it seems