Liqui Moly Touring High Tech 20W-50

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Mineral all-season 20W-50 oil for petrol and diesel engines without a particulate filter, with ACEA A3/B4/E2 and API SL/CG-4 and Allison C-4 approval.

Classification
Product line Liqui Moly Touring High Tech 10 oils
SAE viscosity 20W-50What SAE means
Base oil mineral
Intended use passenger cars
API class What API means
ACEA class What ACEA means
Approvals
Manufacturer approvals What an approval means
Meets the requirements of
Typical properties
Viscosity at 40 °C 165 mm²/s
Viscosity at 100 °C 18.5 mm²/s
Viscosity index 125
HTHS viscosity ≥3.7 mPa·s
Pour point -30 °C
Flash point 230 °C
Evaporation loss (NOACK) 7.2 %
Base number (TBN) 10.2 mg KOH/g
Sulphated ash 1.0-1.6 %
Density 880 kg/m³
Pack sizes 1 L, 4 L, 5 L, 20 L, 60 L, 205 L

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Description

Liqui Moly Touring High Tech 20W-50 is a mineral all-season oil for high-mileage petrol and diesel engines, including those in mixed fleets.

Classes: ACEA A3, B4 and E2, API SL and CG-4. Official approvals: Allison C-4 and MIL-L-2104E. Without formal approval, it meets the requirements of MB 228.3, MAN 271 and CAT TO-2.

Typical figures: 18.5 mm²/s at 100 °C, viscosity index 125, HTHS at least 3.7 mPa·s, base number 10.2, NOACK 7.2 %, pour point -30 °C. Pack sizes from 1 to 205 litres.

With sulphated ash of 1.0-1.6 %, the oil is not intended for vehicles with a particulate filter.

Application

Petrol and diesel engines without a particulate filter, above all high-mileage vehicles and mixed fleets.

Worth knowing

The diesel class API CG-4 is not claimed by the other Liqui Moly 20W-50 oils, and it is what sets this oil apart from Formula Super 20W-50 in the lists. API counts CG-4 among the obsolete classes; the article on API CG-4 and its replacement names the classes allowed in its place: CH-4, CI-4 and CJ-4. In the same line, Touring High Tech Tropical Motoroil 20W-50 has CH-4, with the same typical figures but without ACEA E2, MIL-L-2104E, Allison C-4, CAT TO-2 and MAN 271.

In this list, Allison C-4 concerns not the engine but the transmission: it is a specification for fluids in heavy-duty automatic gearboxes, developed by Allison itself. The data sheet puts it next to the classes, while CAT TO-2, MAN 271 and MB 228.3 are set apart as a Liqui Moly recommendation. For a gearbox, what decides is the number in its own documentation: for on-road Allison automatics, for example, Allison recommends TES 668 fluids, and that code is not here.

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