BP Visco 7000 5W-30

Worth knowing

The two Renault approvals this oil holds, RN0700 and RN0710, belong to the older pair of specifications: Renault assigns them to petrol engines, to diesels without a particulate filter and, as an exception, to the 2.2 dCi with a filter. For older dCi diesels with a particulate filter Renault mostly assigns a separate specification, RN0720, based on ACEA C4 with an ash content of no more than 0.5 %; this oil has a sulphated ash of 0.78 % and no such number. The C3 class and particulate filter compatibility are no substitute for that number. RN17, which Renault introduced for cars sold from 2018, is not on the list either. The table of Renault and Dacia approvals shows which number goes with which engine.

BP also publishes a separate Ukrainian data sheet for this oil. It has the same ACEA C3 class and the same list of approvals, but no API category, and the typical figures differ slightly: 12.0 mm²/s at 100 °C instead of 12.2, a flash point of 196 °C instead of 195 and a sulphated ash of 0.7 % instead of 0.78 %. The figures on this page are taken from the global English-language data sheet.