Liqui Moly Leichtlauf Performance 5W-40

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Low-SAPS 5W-40 oil for petrol and diesel cars, including those with a particulate filter, to ACEA C3 and API SP, meeting MB 229.31.

Classification
Product line Liqui Moly Leichtlauf Performance 4 oils
SAE viscosity 5W-40What SAE means
Intended use passenger cars
API class What API means
ACEA class What ACEA means
Approvals
Meets the requirements of What an approval means
Typical properties
Viscosity at 40 °C 86 mm²/s
Viscosity at 100 °C 14.3 mm²/s
Viscosity index 170
HTHS viscosity ≥3.5 mPa·s
Pour point -36 °C
Flash point 230 °C
Evaporation loss (NOACK) 12.0 %
Base number (TBN) 8 mg KOH/g
Sulphated ash ≤0.8 %
Density 850 kg/m³
Pack sizes 1 L, 4 L, 5 L, 20 L, 60 L, 205 L

The car maker has not officially approved the entries in the “Meets the requirements of” row.

Description

Liqui Moly Leichtlauf Performance 5W-40 is a low-SAPS engine oil for passenger-car petrol and diesel engines, including common-rail and pump-nozzle units. It is also intended for cars with a factory-fitted or retrofitted particulate filter and for cars running on CNG or LPG.

It carries ACEA C3 and API SP. It holds no carmaker approvals and meets MB 229.31 without formal approval.

Typical figures: viscosity 14.3 mm²/s at 100 °C, viscosity index 170, HTHS at least 3.5 mPa·s, base number 8, NOACK 12 %, pour point -36 °C, sulphated ash no more than 0.8 %. Pack sizes from 1 to 205 litres.

Application

Passenger-car petrol and diesel engines, including common-rail and pump-nozzle units, with a factory-fitted or retrofitted particulate filter, and cars running on CNG or LPG.

Worth knowing

Among Liqui Moly 5W-40 oils, official Mercedes-Benz approvals are held by, among others, Leichtlauf High Tech 5W-40 (MB 229.5) and Leichtlauf HC7 5W-40 (MB 229.3), but neither has class C3. Both belong to the full-SAPS ACEA classes A3/B4, and according to ACEA the A/B family is designed for engines without a particulate filter. On this oil, MB 229.31 is only the oil maker’s recommendation; which oils hold this code as an approval and which only declare compliance can be seen on the MB 229.31 approval page.

On codes, the only thing separating this oil from Optimal New Generation 5W-40 is API SN, which the sibling lists alongside API SP. The typical figures of both entries, from 14.3 mm²/s at 100 °C to Noack 12 %, also match, as do the C3 class and the MB 229.31 recommendation. Mercedes-Benz later replaced MB 229.31 itself with the numbers 229.51 and 229.52 on the same ACEA C3 basis; this approval and its successors are covered in the article on MB 229.31.

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