EUROL Synthetic Oil from Holland?

[Mr_Accord]

Was recently visiting my local euro parts shop, where they used to carry Pentosin synthetic motor oil. When I walked in I a saw they had replaced it with a new brand of oil called Eurol that came in 5-20,5-30, and 5-40 Fully synthetic versions. The oil is blended and packaged in the Netherlands. Not sure if they are group III or Group5 though. What do you guys think? It was decently priced too.

Intro
Eurol® Turbo DI is a fully synthetic motor oil for gasoline
and diesel engines in passenger cars and light duty
commercial vehicles. This oil can be applied in cars
equipped with catalytic converters, turbo charged
engines, soot filters and/or direct fuel injection systems.
Eurol® Turbo DI, manufactured with Eurol's OPT
additives, contains less phosphor, sulphur and sulphated
ash, so exhaust gas treatment systems (soot filters and
catalytic converters) are prevented from blocking (so
called "mid SAPS" technology).
Eurol® Turbo DI has been especially developed for
passenger cars and light duty commercial vehicles of the
VAG group (Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda). It has
also been composed to make the product suitable for VW
diesel engines with direct injection pump discharge
nozzle technology (PDi/Tdi with red D and red i) and for
engines for which VW 505.01 motor oils are prescribed.

Specs
API: SN/SM/CF
ACEA: C3 (12)
MB-Approval 229.31 (Approved)
BMW Longlife-04 (Approved)
VW 502.00/505.01 (Approved)
Ford WSS-M2C-917A
Renault RN0700 / RN0710
MB 226.5
Porsche A40
GM Dexos 2
Meets ACEA C2 requirements concerning motor protection.

Properties
Density 20C kg/l 0.848
Viscosity 100C cSt. 14.3
Viscosity 40C cSt. 86.6
Viscosity (-30C) cP Viscosity Index - 172
Flash point COC C 226
Pour point C -39
Sulphated ash wt% T.B.N. mg KOH/g 7.5

Eurol Turbo-Di 5W-40 Page
Eurol Fluence 5W-30 Page

 

[BrocLuno]

Looks good to me. There are a lot of refineries in the Netherlands, especially near Rotterdam. I'm sure they are capable of making most anything the parent company wants, or has sold to a distributor ...

 

[UltrafanUK]

Originally Posted By: Mr_Accord
Was recently visiting my local euro parts shop, where they used to carry Pentosin synthetic motor oil. When I walked in I a saw they had replaced it with a new brand of oil called Eurol that came in 5-20,5-30, and 5-40 Fully synthetic versions. The oil is blended and packaged in the Netherlands. Not sure if they are group III or Group5 though. What do you guys think? It was decently priced too.

Intro
Eurol® Turbo DI is a fully synthetic motor oil for gasoline
and diesel engines in passenger cars and light duty
commercial vehicles. This oil can be applied in cars
equipped with catalytic converters, turbo charged
engines, soot filters and/or direct fuel injection systems.
Eurol® Turbo DI, manufactured with Eurol's OPT
additives, contains less phosphor, sulphur and sulphated
ash, so exhaust gas treatment systems (soot filters and
catalytic converters) are prevented from blocking (so
called "mid SAPS" technology).
Eurol® Turbo DI has been especially developed for
passenger cars and light duty commercial vehicles of the
VAG group (Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda). It has
also been composed to make the product suitable for VW
diesel engines with direct injection pump discharge
nozzle technology (PDi/Tdi with red D and red i) and for
engines for which VW 505.01 motor oils are prescribed.

Specs
API: SN/SM/CF
ACEA: C3 (12)
MB-Approval 229.31 (Approved)
BMW Longlife-04 (Approved)
VW 502.00/505.01 (Approved)
Ford WSS-M2C-917A
Renault RN0700 / RN0710
MB 226.5
Porsche A40
GM Dexos 2
Meets ACEA C2 requirements concerning motor protection.

Properties
Density 20C kg/l 0.848
Viscosity 100C cSt. 14.3
Viscosity 40C cSt. 86.6
Viscosity (-30C) cP Viscosity Index - 172
Flash point COC C 226
Pour point C -39
Sulphated ash wt% T.B.N. mg KOH/g 7.5

Eurol Turbo-Di 5W-40 Page
Eurol Fluence 5W-30 Page


Check with VW to see if it is listed as approved. What is written on a can or in a web site often means nothing, but if it has real approvals rather than recommendations, they should be listed by the car or truck company.

This oil is a C3 one which means it's for use in DPF diesels, it will often cause more wear than an Acea A3/B4 when used in an older diesel due to restricted Zinc based additives required for low ash figures.

 

[UltrafanUK]

It's probably a group 3 oil, as group 4 or 5 oils are expensive. Some group 5 oils are not compatible with other engine oils in top up oil terms. Don't know of any sold for normal car or truck use.

Group 3 base (Hydrocrack or synthetic technology) stocks are very cheap at present due to the Bulgarian refiners dumping unwanted stocks. Additives are not, so a major brand G2 like Castrol GTX can often produce less wear than a cheap low additives G3 oil.

Don't forget that in general terms, you get what you pay for!

 

[Falcon_LS]

Eurol is decent oil. They're just not as big as some of the major competitors out there, although this particular one appears to have some decent approvals and a good TBN for a low SAPS. I guess 229.51 is a bit expensive to test for.

 

[Mr_Accord]

Originally Posted By: Falcon_LS
Eurol is decent oil. They're just not as big as some of the major competitors out there, although this particular one appears to have some decent approvals and a good TBN for a low SAPS. I guess 229.51 is a bit expensive to test for.


Thats what I thought. It has fair amount of car manu approval, and 5L is about the same price as the 4.4L jugs of edge or mobil1. Might give it a try later on.