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Jun 14th, 2018, 11:49 | #1 |
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Have they put the correct oil in?
Hi, just had the car serviced, my2010 d5 xc90 and I have been told they used castrol gtx professional 5w-30 semi synthetic. Is this the correct oil? Cheers, Simon.
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Jun 14th, 2018, 12:15 | #2 |
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Volvo recommend 0W-30 A5/B5 spec and it looks like you have A1/B1 spec so the wrong oil
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Jun 14th, 2018, 12:52 | #3 |
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Any semi-synth is the wrong oil.
Semi-synth is usually a mineral base with synthetic additives.
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Jun 14th, 2018, 13:18 | #4 |
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Double check what they have put in, you dont generally get 5w30 in a semi, it could be they have written it down wrong.
Theres a slim possibility, very unlikely however, that the tech is being pedantic, many current synthetics could not have been called synthetic 20 years ago as they start life as mineral oil, not molecularly constructed from scratch, rather the mineral oil is stripped back to its purest most uniform arrangement then 'put back together' using the resultant 'new' highly uniform relatively pure base oil combined with an appropriate additive pack and some polymers. As such it is now considered to be engineered enough at a molecular level to be classed as synthetic, though it would originally be considered only semi due to its mineral origins. |
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Thanks for the replies, a bit worrying as it was done by a local recommended (by forum members) indie. Guess a phone call is in order.
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Not calling you btw, you're just selling the stuff! (Though maybe better advice to customers might not go amiss) |
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