UOA Pennzoil Ultra Platinum 5w30 - 2zrfe

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Originally Posted by tmontague

I have always wondered of those oil monitoring systems would correct themselves for synthetic oil. Good to know that they do, those things are actually fairly accurate surprisingly.

They have Klondike oil (BC company) for $25 for 5L of full synthetic. They also sell Total oil for $33 and T6 for $44. I looked up Klondike as I use their gear oil in my Vibe and was very happy. They list all of their oil specs online which is rare for companies to be that transparent.

The monitors, at least on the GM vehicles I have experience with are basically an algorithm that takes into account RPM and load. They require a certain oil spec for the vehicle (Dexos in the case of my truck) and base it on that. The GM OLM's are apparently very accurate and in the case of my truck it zeros out after about 9 months and 16-18k. That's for a pretty ideal 35 km comute, but regular trips on the tach between 5-6000 RPM. It's a mildly modified 2.9 5 spd with 4.10 gear.

Most oil manufacturers should list their specs on a material data sheet and all should have an MSDS on their site which should also list it's specs