Ditching Mobil 1 - NA (Has anyone done any research on the other approved brands?)
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LiquiMoly MoS2 is an additive that helps protect your engine. I don't have a computer with me to post links at the moment but look on mbworld and on bobistheoilguy and read the arguments. I personally swear by this stuff and everybody I know that uses it does as well. Even in non performance engines, you'll idle smoother, have more power, and effectively have more protection for your engine. I tried with Mobil 1 in the past and it helped, but combined with Motul it was like butter butter butter.
If you want to jump on I'd recommend d running LiquiMoly Ceratec first, then upon your next oil change start cycling in LiquiMoly MoS2 as recommended by LiquiMoly. I drive my car hard and after 1.5 weeks of driving Mobil seemed to lose that fresh oil change feeling. Motul with LiquiMoly felt as strong as it did day of oil change.
If you want to jump on I'd recommend d running LiquiMoly Ceratec first, then upon your next oil change start cycling in LiquiMoly MoS2 as recommended by LiquiMoly. I drive my car hard and after 1.5 weeks of driving Mobil seemed to lose that fresh oil change feeling. Motul with LiquiMoly felt as strong as it did day of oil change.
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The oil make and type is on the B service receipt.
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Not long luckily, I seldom drive the car, did about 3000km since 10 months of ownership and oil has been changed twice.since last service about 50km
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Courtesy of BITOG, this is one of the more amazing UOA's I've seen. Motul 8100 X-cess 5W-40 (I've used it for 23,700 miles in the C63 with two outstanding UOA's) in an A3. The oil use interval was 20,509 miles. The wear metal readings are freakishly low. Virtually NO shear, hot viscosity at 13.0. TBN still very high at 4.0. You can't go wrong with this oil.
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Courtesy of BITOG, this is one of the more amazing UOA's I've seen. Motul 8100 X-cess 5W-40 (I've used it for 23,700 miles in the C63 with two outstanding UOA's) in an A3. The oil use interval was 20,509 miles. The wear metal readings are freakishly low. Virtually NO shear, hot viscosity at 13.0. TBN still very high at 4.0. You can't go wrong with this oil.
Big fan of Motul 8100 x-cess myself, run it in my 335i and C63.
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Bad wording on my part. 24k covered three Motul changes, the first and last were tested. In general I go about 8k between changes.
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"Do not blend oil additives with engine oil. They may damage the engine. Damage or malfunctions resulting from blending oil additives are not covered by the Mercedes-Benz Limited Warranty."
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LiquiMoly MoS2 is an additive that helps protect your engine. I don't have a computer with me to post links at the moment but look on mbworld and on bobistheoilguy and read the arguments. I personally swear by this stuff and everybody I know that uses it does as well. Even in non performance engines, you'll idle smoother, have more power, and effectively have more protection for your engine. I tried with Mobil 1 in the past and it helped, but combined with Motul it was like butter butter butter.
If you want to jump on I'd recommend d running LiquiMoly Ceratec first, then upon your next oil change start cycling in LiquiMoly MoS2 as recommended by LiquiMoly. I drive my car hard and after 1.5 weeks of driving Mobil seemed to lose that fresh oil change feeling. Motul with LiquiMoly felt as strong as it did day of oil change.
If you want to jump on I'd recommend d running LiquiMoly Ceratec first, then upon your next oil change start cycling in LiquiMoly MoS2 as recommended by LiquiMoly. I drive my car hard and after 1.5 weeks of driving Mobil seemed to lose that fresh oil change feeling. Motul with LiquiMoly felt as strong as it did day of oil change.
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This line in the manual makes me not want to do that until my warranty is over.
"Do not blend oil additives with engine oil. They may damage the engine. Damage or malfunctions resulting from blending oil additives are not covered by the Mercedes-Benz Limited Warranty."
"Do not blend oil additives with engine oil. They may damage the engine. Damage or malfunctions resulting from blending oil additives are not covered by the Mercedes-Benz Limited Warranty."
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LiquiMoly MoS2 is an additive that helps protect your engine. I don't have a computer with me to post links at the moment but look on mbworld and on bobistheoilguy and read the arguments. I personally swear by this stuff and everybody I know that uses it does as well. Even in non performance engines, you'll idle smoother, have more power, and effectively have more protection for your engine. I tried with Mobil 1 in the past and it helped, but combined with Motul it was like butter butter butter.
If you want to jump on I'd recommend d running LiquiMoly Ceratec first, then upon your next oil change start cycling in LiquiMoly MoS2 as recommended by LiquiMoly. I drive my car hard and after 1.5 weeks of driving Mobil seemed to lose that fresh oil change feeling. Motul with LiquiMoly felt as strong as it did day of oil change.
If you want to jump on I'd recommend d running LiquiMoly Ceratec first, then upon your next oil change start cycling in LiquiMoly MoS2 as recommended by LiquiMoly. I drive my car hard and after 1.5 weeks of driving Mobil seemed to lose that fresh oil change feeling. Motul with LiquiMoly felt as strong as it did day of oil change.
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I'll answer that. My last UOA showed 138 ppm of moly with a half-bottle maintenance dose of MOS2 added with new oil. That's too low for me - I was expecting over 200 ppm which is the min level I am looking for. So, the easiest is to add a full bottle at every oil change.
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I agree...I add a whole bottle upon every oil change.
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I've never mentioned this before to anyone but's absolutely true. And particularly true when (I) (you) have been using MOS2 over multiple changes. Idle is very noticeably "creamy-smooth."
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I dosed with CeraTec, ran that through for a couple thousand miles, and have been follow-up dosing with one bottle of MOS2 at subsequent oil changes for about a year now. Idle is much smoother and lifters are quieter too. I'm usually pretty skeptical of additives, but after thoroughly researching on BITOG (where the positive experiences and UOA results are in the clear majority), and now seeing a difference on my car, I'm a believer.
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I picked up a bottle of MoS2 over the weekend and too noticed that we'd need 1.5 bottles to meet their recommended dosage.
That being said, for those starting out on this, the recommendation is to:
1) Run Ceratec through during your initial oil change (5k miles)
2) Upon future oil changes, add 1.5 bottles of MoS2.
Correct?
That being said, for those starting out on this, the recommendation is to:
1) Run Ceratec through during your initial oil change (5k miles)
2) Upon future oil changes, add 1.5 bottles of MoS2.
Correct?
