Originally Posted By: bourne
Originally Posted By: fdcg27
I'm a little suspicious of this UOA by Blackstone.
I had a Polaris UOA done of a 4K run of Maxlife NG SN last summer, and it certainly did show normal levels of moly.
Maybe an email to Valvoline, and then ask Blackstone to run this one again?
Maxlife Nextgen has NOT been reformulated to meet Dexos requirements, its still the old formulation. This is confirmed via a phone conversation with Valvoline cust service. I had a Chevy calling for Dexos oil and I was out of the new Maxlife so called to check whether Nextgen would be a suitable alternative. Its not.
Valvoline has confirmed that the NextGen MaxLife meets the GM dexos 1 spec. Here are the products they have that are suitable for the GM dexos specs.
Valvoline has recently added MaxLife, Synthetic MaxLife and NextGen MaxLife to its list of
lubricants meeting the performance requirements of dexos1. The following products meet all
requirements of the dexos specification and therefore in GM’s terminology will be dexos equivalent oils:
Product Grade dexos spec Other specifications
Synthetic MaxLife 5W-30 dexos™1 ILSAC GF-5, API SN/Resource Conserving, ACEA A1/A5
SynPower 5W-20 dexos™1 ILSAC GF-5, API SN/Resource Conserving, ACEA A1
SynPower 5W-30 dexos™1 ILSAC GF-5, API SN/Resource Conserving, ACEA A1/A5
DuraBlend 5W-30 dexos™1 ILSAC GF-5, API SN/Resource Conserving, ACEA A1
MaxLife 5W-30 dexos™1 ILSAC GF-5, API SN/Resource Conserving, ACEA A1
NextGen MaxLife 5W-30 dexos™1 ILSAC GF-5, API SN/Resource Conserving, ACEA A1
SynPower MST 5W-30 dexos™2 API SN/CF, ACEA A3/B4-04, ACEA C3-08, MB 229.51, BMW LL-04,VW 502.00/505.00/505.01