Hi everybody,
I, a French fella, come here today to finally receive some definitive answers from people more knowledgeable than me when it comes to oils, sorry this is going to be a bit long but I’m really lost right now..
I’m the owner of a 2022 Suzuki Jimny (Petrol), it has a 1.5L 4-cylinders naturally aspired engine (102hp) and it is a timing chain engine, if that can already give you an idea of what’s best for it. My car has reached 10k kms so I’m looking for the best oil to buy to perform its very first oil change, but that’s where my questioning start…
The owner manual has a lot of different recommendations, the one described as the best one being a 0W16 oil. Now from what I understand about oils, I tend to believe that recently those very low grades have something to do with fuel efficiency, sacrificing sometimes engine protection from wear and overheat, on some French forums I’ve had two different side, people claiming to strictly stick to the manual recommended oil (0W16 / 0W20) and others claiming that the best thing you can put in an engine is a 0W40 because it has good cold start and a good protection during intensive and prolonged use (like highway), for reference this vehicle can do quite a lot of nonstop highway (2-3 hours) and we have temperatures here going from about -6°c during winter to 40°c during summer.
(sorry for the french manual but at least the oil viscosity and quality are universals)
Well from what I can tell the image from the manual does go from 0W to W40 so I thought that the 0W40 could be a great thing (combining the best of two worlds) even if it’s not explicitly said (I don’t care at all about fuel economy I just want what’s best for my engine on the long run), but then I used the Mobil 1 oil selector and it redirected me to an 0W30 ESP-LV.
Because (and that’s the other interrogation I have), I have no idea if my car is equipped with a gasoline particulate filter and apparently the Mobil 1 FS 0W40 we see quite often is not suitable for cars with that kind of pollution system, hence why I looked for another 0W40 still from Mobil 1 and that’d be the ESP-X3 0W40. Although I’m really not certain to have this GPF, otherwise wouldn’t the manual give the ACEA C(1-2-3-4) recommendation instead if that was the case?
Now I really don’t know what to pick, the 0W30 does have more certifications on its datasheet (I mean, that match the manual recommendation) but the 0W40 has the API SN plus on the other hand, do you think having one of the recommended certifications is enough?
Here's the link to the 0W30: https://www.mobil.fr/fr-fr/products-industrial/mobil-1-esp-lv-0w-30
And here's the one for the 0W40 : https://www.mobil.fr/fr-fr/products-industrial/mobil-1-esp-x3-0w-40
I feel like it's best if you just download the product datasheet yourself instead of me sending multiple screenshots.
So as you can tell, I have a lot of different interrogations regarding this choice (I’m most likely overthinking it too) but I wanted to have some advices from your forum that helped me back in the days with my Miata. Thank you all in advance!
I, a French fella, come here today to finally receive some definitive answers from people more knowledgeable than me when it comes to oils, sorry this is going to be a bit long but I’m really lost right now..
I’m the owner of a 2022 Suzuki Jimny (Petrol), it has a 1.5L 4-cylinders naturally aspired engine (102hp) and it is a timing chain engine, if that can already give you an idea of what’s best for it. My car has reached 10k kms so I’m looking for the best oil to buy to perform its very first oil change, but that’s where my questioning start…
The owner manual has a lot of different recommendations, the one described as the best one being a 0W16 oil. Now from what I understand about oils, I tend to believe that recently those very low grades have something to do with fuel efficiency, sacrificing sometimes engine protection from wear and overheat, on some French forums I’ve had two different side, people claiming to strictly stick to the manual recommended oil (0W16 / 0W20) and others claiming that the best thing you can put in an engine is a 0W40 because it has good cold start and a good protection during intensive and prolonged use (like highway), for reference this vehicle can do quite a lot of nonstop highway (2-3 hours) and we have temperatures here going from about -6°c during winter to 40°c during summer.
(sorry for the french manual but at least the oil viscosity and quality are universals)
Well from what I can tell the image from the manual does go from 0W to W40 so I thought that the 0W40 could be a great thing (combining the best of two worlds) even if it’s not explicitly said (I don’t care at all about fuel economy I just want what’s best for my engine on the long run), but then I used the Mobil 1 oil selector and it redirected me to an 0W30 ESP-LV.
Because (and that’s the other interrogation I have), I have no idea if my car is equipped with a gasoline particulate filter and apparently the Mobil 1 FS 0W40 we see quite often is not suitable for cars with that kind of pollution system, hence why I looked for another 0W40 still from Mobil 1 and that’d be the ESP-X3 0W40. Although I’m really not certain to have this GPF, otherwise wouldn’t the manual give the ACEA C(1-2-3-4) recommendation instead if that was the case?
Now I really don’t know what to pick, the 0W30 does have more certifications on its datasheet (I mean, that match the manual recommendation) but the 0W40 has the API SN plus on the other hand, do you think having one of the recommended certifications is enough?
Here's the link to the 0W30: https://www.mobil.fr/fr-fr/products-industrial/mobil-1-esp-lv-0w-30
And here's the one for the 0W40 : https://www.mobil.fr/fr-fr/products-industrial/mobil-1-esp-x3-0w-40
I feel like it's best if you just download the product datasheet yourself instead of me sending multiple screenshots.
So as you can tell, I have a lot of different interrogations regarding this choice (I’m most likely overthinking it too) but I wanted to have some advices from your forum that helped me back in the days with my Miata. Thank you all in advance!