Anyone used Liqui-Moly or know of it?

[Turbodriven]

Hi all,

I see they are in South Africa now and was wondering if anyone had comment on their oil?

 

[fatgroundhog]

After weeks of research on here, and due to the limited oil available to me in Germany, I just put some of the Liqui-Moly 0W-40 in my Subaru WRX. I don't have any hard data, but it is ACEA 3 rated which was what I was looking for. Other than that, I can only say it hasn't burned off at all, which the Mobil 1 5W-30 I had run previously did.

 

[BennyL]

hi Turbodriven. welcome to BITOG. good choice of oil. i have experience with it, using the 5W-40 synthetic and i love it. great oil! you'll find more about it in the Euro Import Oils Forum

 

[ccdhowell]

I've run several OCIs of the 0w40 in my Land Rover. This oil produced the best UOAs yielded by this engine. Super oil, smooth engine, no useage ovver 5,000 mile interval.

 

[Turbodriven]

Excellent, thanks for the replies.

This was the reply from their technical office, my questions are below.

Hello Mr. xxx !

Thank's for your request to our oil's. In our list's the BMW needs an oil with the specification LL-01or LL-04.
So you can use the oil's you have noticed in your mail. For your area I will prefere the Top Tec 4100.
The Oil has a continuous oil film of sufficient load capacity at all times. It's a synthetical hydrocrack ( HC )
oil with a large viscosity index and excellent cleaning and protection qualities. For the temperature in your
area it will be the best of the listed oils.

With friendly regards from Ulm,
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Good day to you,

Please can you advise me; currently I run my car on Mobil 1 0w-40 in my 2007 E 90 330i. Your site recommends that I use one of the following:

SYNTHOIL LONGTIME 0 W-30
TOP TEC 4100 5 W-40
LEICHTLAUF SPECIAL LL 5W-30
LONGTIME HIGH TECH 5 W-30

Now the issue I have is that your fully synthetic oil is LL-98 rated and your highest BMW rated oil (LL-04) is not a fully synthetic. Not to say that Mobil 1 is fully synthetic, but I am looking for the best product/protection for my car. Which of your products above is the best? My driving ranges from every day commuting to very spirited driving. I live in South Africa 1600m above sea level and the yearly temperatures average around 25 degrees C. I am also not one to run oil to the limit of its service life and normally have it changed at 10000KM.

Please advise me.