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Same old oil question: GM-LL-A-025
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Posted by Sam (more from Sam) on Mon, 16 May 2005 18:30:29 Share Post by Email
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The owner's manual is very specific that oil meet GM-LL-A025. Posts related to this come up often. However, since I did a fair amount of searching, why not publish my results below.

The following oils state that they meet the above oil requirement. Some companies have variations of almost the same oil, one for the GM standard, one for BMW, etc. Just a few years ago, there was just the 20W50 that you had to look for. The manual says to use 0W30, 5W30, 0W40 and that only the following are available in the US:

0W40
Mobil 1

0W30
Saab Turbo 0W30 Long Life Fully Synthetic, part 12 799 130 (or 131 for 4 liters)

5W30
none
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I found the following:
0W30
Agip Formula LL GM (ACEA A1/B1)
Motul 8100 E-tech Lite (ACEA A5/B5)(available in France)
Aral Super Tronic G (ACEA A3/B3/B4)
Castrol Formula SLX Longtec (ACEA A3/B3/B4) (Castrol South Africa and Russia websites)

5W30
Q8 Formula G Long Life Engine Oil (ACEA A3, B3/B4)
Amsoil Series 3000 Synthetic Heavy Duty Oil
LazerWay G (Statoil Norway website)

Any of us care to import a case of oil when going to Europe. Wouldn't that look weird? Would an airline even knowingly accept oil in the luggage?
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Eiron posted in early March the following list which was said to be a year old:
BP Visco 7000 GM, 0W-30, ACEA A3
Castrol Formula SLX GM, 0W-30, ACEA A3
Elf Evolution SXR, 0W-30, ACEA A5
Fuchs Titan Supersyn SL GM, 0W-30, ACEA A1
Mobil 1, 0W-40, ACEA A3
Shell Helix Ultra, G-A025, 0W-30, ACEA A1
Veedol Syntron GM, 0W-30, ACEA A3
Opel LongLife, 0W-30, [no ACEA found]
Aral SuperTronic G, 0W-30, ACEA A3
Saab Turbo Long-Life, 0W-30, ACEA A5
Mobil SHC Formula LD, 0W-30, ACEA A3
Esso Universal LD, 0W-30, ACEA A3



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