Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
So SOPUS deliberately omitted the BMW LL-01 spec from this oil's label so that the poor BMW owners would have to go buy it from the BMW service dept for twice the price.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. It's quite obvious that SOPUS has no desire to compete with M1 0w-40 or Castrol 0w-30 or 0w-40 (or even Castrol 5w-40, for that matter). They obviously need to get more ILSAC 5w-30 and 5w-20 varieties onto the market, which is so sorely in short supply of them. After all, SOPUS only markets about 9 different SN/GF-5 5w-30 offerings.
That's the only reason Shell started using GTL base stocks - so they could have another variable to differentiate products in this enormous glut. If they add any more, they'll have to experiment with sodium add packs.
So SOPUS deliberately omitted the BMW LL-01 spec from this oil's label so that the poor BMW owners would have to go buy it from the BMW service dept for twice the price.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. It's quite obvious that SOPUS has no desire to compete with M1 0w-40 or Castrol 0w-30 or 0w-40 (or even Castrol 5w-40, for that matter). They obviously need to get more ILSAC 5w-30 and 5w-20 varieties onto the market, which is so sorely in short supply of them. After all, SOPUS only markets about 9 different SN/GF-5 5w-30 offerings.
That's the only reason Shell started using GTL base stocks - so they could have another variable to differentiate products in this enormous glut. If they add any more, they'll have to experiment with sodium add packs.