Shell's sale of flush oil
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Originally Posted By: GMGuy
Sounds like the magazine went all chicken little on that topic. So what if its a mix of 5w30 and 10w30? Its not as if you end up with 20w50 in a 0w20 bottle. What an end buyer does with the product is up to them to see that it meets specs of what it is eventually sold as.
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Problem is that it has Shell's tracer in it, so they'd be on the hook for any engine damage that could result from using say a 5W20 instead of a 5W30...
Sounds like the magazine went all chicken little on that topic. So what if its a mix of 5w30 and 10w30? Its not as if you end up with 20w50 in a 0w20 bottle. What an end buyer does with the product is up to them to see that it meets specs of what it is eventually sold as.
Alex.
Problem is that it has Shell's tracer in it, so they'd be on the hook for any engine damage that could result from using say a 5W20 instead of a 5W30...
Originally Posted By: bloc0102
Problem is that it has Shell's tracer in it, so they'd be on the hook for any engine damage that could result from using say a 5W20 instead of a 5W30...
A UOA can easily prove that it is not your exact formula. I'd more worry about people putting fake engine oil in a Shell barrel / drum and sell it as the real deal.
Problem is that it has Shell's tracer in it, so they'd be on the hook for any engine damage that could result from using say a 5W20 instead of a 5W30...
A UOA can easily prove that it is not your exact formula. I'd more worry about people putting fake engine oil in a Shell barrel / drum and sell it as the real deal.
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Originally Posted By: bloc0102
Problem is that it has Shell's tracer in it, so they'd be on the hook for any engine damage that could result from using say a 5W20 instead of a 5W30...
A UOA can easily prove that it is not your exact formula. I'd more worry about people putting fake engine oil in a Shell barrel / drum and sell it as the real deal.
I'm assuming their additives and base oils are the same between a 5W30 and 5W20, some can only be told apart by the 100 degree viscosity, even an FTIR can't tell them apart.
So, one could say they put a 5W30 in and it sheared down into a 20 grade, causing engine damage. It'd be hard to prove for both sides, but I wouldn't want to be Shell having all of this off-spec product with my tracer in it...
Originally Posted By: bloc0102
Problem is that it has Shell's tracer in it, so they'd be on the hook for any engine damage that could result from using say a 5W20 instead of a 5W30...
A UOA can easily prove that it is not your exact formula. I'd more worry about people putting fake engine oil in a Shell barrel / drum and sell it as the real deal.
I'm assuming their additives and base oils are the same between a 5W30 and 5W20, some can only be told apart by the 100 degree viscosity, even an FTIR can't tell them apart.
So, one could say they put a 5W30 in and it sheared down into a 20 grade, causing engine damage. It'd be hard to prove for both sides, but I wouldn't want to be Shell having all of this off-spec product with my tracer in it...
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