edy ,M1 is not out in the market yet.so even of i want to use it ,i could not.but i hear a lot of praise here for it and that intrigues me ..i would like to try some 0x oils that the forum likes but for bmw there isn't one yet. i might do try m1 0-40 sp once as i said.but its not just me, there are friends who i might persuade them to use it, who own port injection bimmers.
i mean before ULSG , you too had other options back then between oils for vw with 1.10-15%, but you chose that with highest saps for your tinguan .
i read a lot of topics here and in some of them you were wondered if the new motul 5-40's gen 2 was good, if the XX oil will have a good HTHS and so on. i am not doing something different.
as for me i run European oils so far and i am ok, with it. its easy for me to run a 5-30 ,there are plenty of them.
it's not for just choosing an oil for me, it's for the knowledge of it. .things that are discussed here are transferred to other forums and mens gatherings talking cars , oils, tyres and so on. now none of them that i spoke off knows about the clearing and protective properties that is oil offers ,not even petrolheads i know, don't. most of them don't know bitog. and many of them are mobil 1 fans.
Personally i like learning . bitog is a rabbit-hole for me , i found interesting subjects. i like learning more. and if i am not satisfied with an answer for something that i am searching , then i will keep on, but just for the knowledge.
as you said european enthusiasts knew about 0-30 castrol and how good it is. but enthusiasts are a minority.you see that in other car forums ,like the one i copied some of your posts. users there knew all things about oils ,in the wrong way.and you were very happy to help them. now if and when it happens to say my opinion about oils to other people , i don't want to say the wrong things , i want to help people with my knowledge, just like you all do in this forum.isn't it the real purpose of this forum?
now i was going to the shop that i buy my oils and do the OCI there and i was asking which oil to use and why. but when i went last time and we start an oil conversation , and we talk, he ended up he knew wrong.for example, when i told him that i would put a 0-30 castrol ,he said: why? its not that cold here!
so i explained it to him and then he understood why.
just like he understood about what HTHS is and that its all that it matters.
so each time i insist on something ,think of it as a spreading full knowledge around the world!