Please list oil weights eg. 5w30 WITHOUT spaces

[bluemax1]

For all folks posting UOA's please follow this format for listing the oil weights:

XwXX for example 5w20, 10w40, 20w50 etc.

DO NOT WRITE OIL WEIGHTS IN THESE FORMATS:
5w-20, 5w 20 etc.

The search engine will not search for terms that consist of only 2 characters. You can search for 'Castrol 5w30' or simply '5w30' but searching for 'Castrol 5w 30' will omit '5w' and '30' from the search.

Can we make this a sticky or make the advice a sticky?


Max

 

[Jaybird]

I searched 5w30 in the PCMO forum and got back 500 hits.
I suggest don't search for 5w 30, but rather 5w30, as it's supposed to be listed....

 

[Pablo]

No way. Everyone writes 5w30.

 

[Last_Z]

What's up Paul!

 

[mikeg5]

someone needs a pad hahaha

 

[Johnny]

Well for 25 years I've written is as 5W30, 10W30, etc.

 

[FD777]

Search for: "5w 30"
Yes, include the quotes.

It'd be nice if BITOG had a UOA database to search from. It isn't hard to build - I'm sure there's a few members who could do it. I guess I could too...

 

[truav8r]

FD777... you're absolutely right. A searchable database would be the "killer app" at BITOG.

How cool would it be to instantly find all UOA's from Ford 3.0L's running PP 5w20 with Lucas UCL

Any SQL nuts out there with some idle time on your hands??

 

[mikeg5]

lucas anything is a waste of $$..