voa valvoline synpower 0w-20 sn/gf-5

[dustyroads]

Valvoline 0w20 I bought at wally world for my taurus. Used a $7 coupon on the bottle for a decent price. Waiting til november to put it in.

Blackstone results:

Aluminum 1

Chromium 0

Iron 0

Copper 0

Lead 0

Tin 0

Moly 0

Nickel 0

Manganese 0

Silver 0

Titanium 0

Potassium 0

Boron 0

Silicon 3

Sodium 429

Calcium 1982

Magnesium 8

Phosphorous 693

Zinc 754

Barium 0

Sus visc @ 210 f = 55.6

Cst visc @ 100c = 8.95

Flash pt = 455

Water 0.0%

Insolubles 0.0%

Tbn = 8.2

Tan = 1.9

 

[dave1251]

Thanks for posting. Not much in the additive pack but Valvoline has always been a sold performer.

 

[dparm]

Fairly mild additive pack, but a VOA only tells us part of the story.

 

[Clevy]

Wow. No moly. No boron. They must be using organic adds that aren't tested for in an analysis.

 

[dustyroads]

HTHS visc = 2.7

Got that from valvoline thru e-mail with their tech guys....forgot to come back and add it here. That # isn't on the pds

 

[steve20]

thanks for posting--if I ever had to use a 0-20, this would be it--on the nice & heavy side of a 20