Originally Posted by BLND1
I don't think t6multi will be around very long in the states.
I will wager it's not going anywhere. I can't speak about retail shelf space, but I would find it extremely hard to believe that Shell would choose to be the only major oil company in the world to not have an E6 option available. Considering Mobil, Chevron, Castrol, Total, Petronas, and Petro-Canada have had them available (and in most cases for longer than Shell has) and since ACEA E6 is an important aspect of certain builder approvals, particularly more recent ones, it's not going anywhere. Shell is just the only one that's seen the wisdom of pushing the E6 lubricant for mixed fleet usage. Mobil certainly pushed it with other portions of their Delvac 1 line, but it didn't translate into the Delvac 1 LE literature. Castrol's E6 variant is perplexingly not SN or SM for the CJ-4 version, at least. There's really not much to dislike about a 5w-30 in E6. I have higher HTHS. I have appropriate cold weather performance. I don't have to fuss about excessive phosphorus (not that I did before anyhow).
Originally Posted by oil_film_movies
Only thing possibly wrong with MultiVehicle 5w30: No moly.
Remember that at least one iteration of a notable diesel OEM spec prohibited moly, so when I see an HDEO, I expect there to be no moly.