General FCP Euro and my new oil

[FlyingTexan]

If you can't tell by my other thread I'm a bit of a nut when it comes to maintenance. BMW went 0w20 for CAFE and that 3% fleet efficiency increase. I've been running both Pennzoil Euro and QuakerState Euro as of late. Highly recommended. Both have LL01 ratings so a HTHS min of 3.5. The Pennzoil is a heavy 5w30 and the QS is a light 5w40 they're basically neck and neck. The QS I've ordered from Walmart for $22 a 5l and had shipped to the house.

Then I started to get the itch and keep doing more reading. Decided to look at LiquiMolly and what FCPEuro but the more I researched LiquiMolly the more I didn't like it. Seemed a lot more advertisement than anything else. Decided to start digging into Redline and can't find anything against. The Ram guys with the Hemis treat it like it's liquid gold. Review after review kept giving it a big thumbs up so I went with their 5w30. It's a very heavy 5w30 with a HTHS of 3.7. Their 5w40 was even crazier and exceeds the B58's max HTHS of 4.1.

With FCPeuro you get lifetime supply you just have to package up and send your old oil back. Literally fill the cans back up and send them back. They'll give a store credit. With the QS Euro being so good it wasn't worth it to do it for any other oil but Redline. Given it's high cost it should be worth it. Cost me about $18-$20 an oil change moving forward. I do them every 5k just to keep the engine forever. Will see what happens. But I encourage people to look at the oil analysis of redline and do their own reading on it.

 

[archerwolf]

wow the lifetime replacement warranty on engine oil sounds too good to be true!! You are literally sending used oil back to them and they give you full credit?

 

[FlyingTexan]

wow the lifetime replacement warranty on engine oil sounds too good to be true!! You are literally sending used oil back to them and they give you full credit?

Yea and as far as I can tell you "should" be able to put all 7 qts and filter in a large USPS flat rate box which I think is like $18. Wish they had a 5L jug but didn't so I'll just drain into my pan and fill the bottles one at a time. One take but a sec anyway.

 

[NQ94]

It would be interesting to see oil analysis for new product from each brand to see the additive package differences. General consumer oil analysis tests will only do the V40 V100 tests and don't do the HTHS test as it is costly. Our workshop sent several different brands new 0W-30 and 5W-30 oils straight from the container to get some base information to compare against used oils for a project (not BMW engine related). It was interesting to see some of the differences in additive packages and viscosities for essentially interchangeable oils and you could see why not changing brands every service is actually a good idea.