Liqui Moly Touring High Tech Special 10W-40
Synthetic 10W-40 engine oil to API SM/CF for petrol engines and passenger-car diesels, without carmaker approvals.
| Classification | |
|---|---|
| Product line | Liqui Moly Touring High Tech 10 oils |
| SAE viscosity | 10W-40What SAE means |
| Base oil | synthetic |
| Intended use | passenger cars |
| API class | What API means |
| Typical properties | |
| Viscosity at 40 °C | 95 mm²/s |
| Viscosity at 100 °C | 14.5 mm²/s |
| Viscosity index | 160 |
| HTHS viscosity | ≥3.5 mPa·s |
| Pour point | -36 °C |
| Flash point | 230 °C |
| Evaporation loss (NOACK) | 10.0 % |
| Base number (TBN) | 10.3 mg KOH/g |
| Sulphated ash | 0.9-1.5 % |
| Density | 860 kg/m³ |
| Pack sizes | 1 L, 4 L, 5 L, 205 L |
Description
Liqui Moly Touring High Tech Special 10W-40 is a synthetic engine oil in the Touring High Tech line for petrol engines and passenger-car diesels, naturally aspirated or turbocharged, with or without an intercooler.
Classes: API SM and API CF. There are no carmaker approvals and no claims to meet carmaker requirements, so the oil suits engines whose handbook calls only for these API classes.
Typical figures: 14.5 mm²/s at 100 °C, viscosity index 160, HTHS at least 3.5 mPa·s, base number 10.3, NOACK 10 %, pour point -36 °C, sulphated ash 0.9-1.5 %. Pack sizes from 1 to 205 litres.
Application
Petrol engines and passenger-car diesels, with or without turbocharging and an intercooler, where API SM/CF is sufficient.
Worth knowing
The data sheet aims this oil at modern engines: the word “modern” appears in both the description and the application section. Yet its petrol class, API SM, is no longer new, and the limit on model years for which API recommends it is given in the article on this class. Check that limit against the year of your engine rather than relying on the data sheet’s general wording. No other Liqui Moly 10W-40 in the catalogue carries API SM.
By its typical figures it is indistinguishable from Optimal 10W-40: 95 and 14.5 mm²/s, viscosity index 160, base number 10.3, Noack 10 %, pour point -36 °C and flash point 230 °C all match. What differs is the stated base and the codes. This one claims synthetic technology and SM/CF; the other is semi-synthetic, with ACEA A3/B3, API SL/CF and compliance with MB 229.1, and its stated use is petrol engines only. For MB 229.3, VW 501.01 and VW 505.00 approvals, there is, for example, Super Leichtlauf 10W-40 with ACEA A3/B4 and API SP.
Data current as of Check the label and the current product data sheet before you buy.
Sources: official sources of the data on this oil
- Technical data sheet (TDS) pim.liqui-moly.de
- Product page on the manufacturer’s site liqui-moly.com
- Manufacturer’s catalogue pim.liqui-moly.com
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