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Originally Posted By: weasley
Originally Posted By: 1JZ_E46
There are very few oils that meet both LL-04/229.51 and 504/507/C30.


You missed Castrol EDGE 5W-30.


That’s an out of date formula. Current one only meets 50200/50500/50501 for VW specs.
 
Originally Posted By: Garak
Yes, the one I've seen on the shelf also has dexos2, as your chart indicates.


Castrol is terrible with documentation QC.
 
Originally Posted By: 1JZ_E46
Originally Posted By: weasley
Originally Posted By: 1JZ_E46
There are very few oils that meet both LL-04/229.51 and 504/507/C30.


You missed Castrol EDGE 5W-30.


That’s an out of date formula. Current one only meets 50200/50500/50501 for VW specs.


They are two different products. You quoted data for Castrol EDGE 5W-30 C3, I quoted data for Castrol EDGE 5W-30 (period).

From the Castrol USA website:

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CASTROL EDGE IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING GRADES: 0W-20, 0W-30 A3/B4, 0W-40 A3/B4, 5W-20, 5W-30, 5W-30 A3/B4, 5W-30 C3, 5W-30 DIESEL, 5W-40, 5W-40 TURBO DIESEL, 5W-50, 10W-30, 10W-40 AND 10W-60
 
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Castrol EDGE 5W-30 does not carry 504/507/C30 approval. I think the PDS you linked to (a C3 oil) is old and was replaced with EDGE 5W-30 C3.

Edit: Actually, I think there may be two oils. The one you listed is “EDGE 5W-30 for European Diesels,” not regular EDGE 5W-30 (a GF-5 oil). AAP carries it at $10.50 a quart lol. It’s weird because of the overlapping approvals.
 
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Weasley, in your quote that refers to Castrol 5w-30 in list of grades, that first one you bolded would be referring to the SN/GF-5 version here (i.e. A5/B5 if it still has it). Looking closer at the quote, you perhaps should have highlighted the one after the C3. I would gather that "5w-30 DIESEL" might be it, if, indeed, it still exists, since the only other 5w-30 "diesel oil" Castrol has in North America, to my knowledge, is tiered as Elixion in E6, rather than an Edge.
 
You may be right, although the US-specific 5W-30 is named "Castrol EDGE 5W-30 US" on the PDS.

That said, the point remains - there is a 5W-30 version with the spec profile the OP was after.
 
Originally Posted By: weasley
You may be right, although the US-specific 5W-30 is named "Castrol EDGE 5W-30 US" on the PDS.

Yes, and believe it or not, they actually have that right on the bottle, too.
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