I think the problems with this oil's lousy test may have been in the weight rather than the oil. The recent test of Pennzoil dino thinned out pretty rapidly too-- any 10W30 should do better. At any rate this stuff will probably be identical to Shell in the near future, unless Wal-Mart owns and cares about the recipe. I think 2K is a bit much to change any SL oil, even ST.