Liqui Moly Top Tec MTF 5300 70W-75W

Worth knowing

The second number in the designation 70W-75W does not agree with the data sheet’s figure: 5.9 mm²/s at 100 °C falls into grade 70 (5.0-6.5 mm²/s) in the 2019 edition of the SAE J306 table, and grade 75 starts from 6.5 mm²/s. The first number is backed by a test in the data sheet: Brookfield below 150,000 mPa·s at -55 °C, which is exactly the limit for 70W. The article on SAE J306 grades and the difference between GL-4 and GL-5 gathers all the limits in one table.

MTF 5100 75W, close in viscosity at 100 °C (6 mm²/s), is no duplicate: it holds the 150,000 mPa·s limit at -40 °C, and the two oils’ lists of carmaker codes do not overlap. The data sheet gives Hyundai and Kia without a single number, so there is nothing to check those two rows against. The word DSG in the application row does not name a specific gearbox either: for the wet DSGs of the VW Group, Liqui Moly has a separate Dual Clutch Transmission Oil 8100 with VW G 052 182, which is not in this list.