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Oil Quality in the News Again, Many Failing Specs

Note: This entry represents a post originally published on Technilube.com. The original article content was not available in the archived copy currently being restored. If the original material is recovered, this entry will be updated.

Last week one of the e-newsletters I get, the Lube Report, printed a report on some testing done by the Petroleum Quality Institute of America (PQIA) that found several oils claiming to meet certain new specs, really didn’t.  The viscosity tested was a 5W-30, and some were out of this range when tested.  Also they […]

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