I have a 2019 Volvo S60 with the T6 engine. For those unfamiliar, the T6 is a 2.0L with supercharging and turbocharging netting about 315HP. I find this funny as I had a 1999 Trans Am with the same horsepower out of a 5.7L.... but I digress.
Volvo requests publishes this in the owners manual:
Immediately following this, there is another odd statement: Volvo's VCC RBS0-2AE/SAE 0W20 oil is recommended for extreme conditions.
There is a lot of debate on this statement on this site as well as others. No where does it indicate what extreme actually means. I'm not going to get into that, but I will instead accept that I should use 0W20, as that is what the dealer uses here in Calgary.
Maybe I should just stop there, but I'm not that smart. Instead I start to dig into this RBS0-2AE/SAE standard. After a lot of research and cross-comparison, it would appear that Castrol Professional 0w20 is only sold in Europe. In fact, even the Canadian dealers don't have it. They use a standard Castrol 0W20. No where in Canada can I find a different oil meeting this standard.
However, the defining characteristic, so far as I can tell, is the rating of ACEA A5/B5. You can look this up and get some gobbly-gook about the difference between A1/B1 up to A5/B5. So I'm sold that I should use A5/B5, but NO 0w20 oil in Canada has this rating. I've looked everywhere.
Here are some samples:
Note that they all say A1/B1. Everything I can find about A1/B1 says it is a deprecated standard. It doesn't say what it was replaced with... or more specifically, what ACEA rating is equivalent.
Funny thing is, I did find an oil meeting A5/B5, but it was a 5W30.
I just had this sitting around.
Anyways, the dealer uses Castrol 0W20 here in Canada, so I will too. But I just have this nagging feeling that such a highly tuned engine such as this, which had a custom oil designed for it, may want better.
Volvo requests publishes this in the owners manual:
Immediately following this, there is another odd statement: Volvo's VCC RBS0-2AE/SAE 0W20 oil is recommended for extreme conditions.
There is a lot of debate on this statement on this site as well as others. No where does it indicate what extreme actually means. I'm not going to get into that, but I will instead accept that I should use 0W20, as that is what the dealer uses here in Calgary.
Maybe I should just stop there, but I'm not that smart. Instead I start to dig into this RBS0-2AE/SAE standard. After a lot of research and cross-comparison, it would appear that Castrol Professional 0w20 is only sold in Europe. In fact, even the Canadian dealers don't have it. They use a standard Castrol 0W20. No where in Canada can I find a different oil meeting this standard.
However, the defining characteristic, so far as I can tell, is the rating of ACEA A5/B5. You can look this up and get some gobbly-gook about the difference between A1/B1 up to A5/B5. So I'm sold that I should use A5/B5, but NO 0w20 oil in Canada has this rating. I've looked everywhere.
Here are some samples:
Note that they all say A1/B1. Everything I can find about A1/B1 says it is a deprecated standard. It doesn't say what it was replaced with... or more specifically, what ACEA rating is equivalent.
Funny thing is, I did find an oil meeting A5/B5, but it was a 5W30.
I just had this sitting around.
Anyways, the dealer uses Castrol 0W20 here in Canada, so I will too. But I just have this nagging feeling that such a highly tuned engine such as this, which had a custom oil designed for it, may want better.
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