Elf Performance Pro 700 10W-40

Worth knowing

Of the nine Performance Pro oils in the catalogue, this is the only one with ACEA A3/B4 and the MB 229.1 and Ford WSS-M2C944-A numbers, which squares with the data sheet’s mention of mixed petrol and diesel fleets. Both numbers are listed as requirements met. The single official Mercedes-Benz approval here is the truck standard MB 228.3, a normal-ash specification for engines without a particulate filter; the oil’s own sulphated ash is 1.5 %.

Its neighbour Elf Performance Pro 700 15W-40 is approved to the same truck specification, written in the newer system as DTFR 15B110, and holds as an official approval the Cummins CES 20078 that this 10W-40 only meets. It is a different viscosity grade, though, so it can replace this oil only in a diesel whose manual allows 15W-40, and it has neither A3/B4 nor MB 229.1 for the fleet’s petrol engines. What MB 228.3 requires and what it is called under the Daimler Truck system is explained in the article on the MB 228.3 truck oil approval.