Mobilube HD-A 85W-90

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API GL-5 85W-90 gear oil for axles and manual gearboxes, with ZF TE-ML 16C, 17B, 19B, 21A and DTFR 12B100 approvals.

Classification
Product line Mobil Mobilube 14 oils
SAE viscosity 85W-90What SAE means
Intended use gear and transmission
API class What API means
Approvals
Manufacturer approvals What an approval means
Meets the requirements of
Typical properties
Viscosity at 40 °C 184 mm²/s
Viscosity at 100 °C 17 mm²/s
Viscosity index 99
Pour point -24 °C
Flash point 222 °C
Density 900 kg/m³

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

Description

Mobilube HD-A 85W-90 is an API GL-5 gear oil for heavily loaded manual gearboxes, axles and final drives. It is used in cars, light trucks, commercial vehicles and off-highway machinery, and also in steering boxes and other hypoid gear sets.

It holds official ZF TE-ML 16C, ZF TE-ML 17B, ZF TE-ML 19B, ZF TE-ML 21A and DTFR 12B100 approvals. It meets the requirements of ZF TE-ML 07A without formal approval, and the oil maker recommends it for MAN 342 Type M1.

Typical figures: viscosity 17 mm²/s at 100 °C, viscosity index 99, pour point -24 °C, flash point 222 °C, density 900 kg/m³.

Application

Heavily loaded manual gearboxes, axles and final drives in cars, light trucks, commercial vehicles and off-highway machinery, including units covered by ZF and Daimler Truck approvals.

Worth knowing

A pour point of -24 °C in the data sheet does not tell you this oil’s working limit. The ZF TE-ML 16 list for rail vehicle gear units, where it is approved under class 16C, sets the lower sump oil temperature limit for 85W-90 at -12 °C, and ZF stresses that it must be observed. Why this line gets misread, and what measures cold behaviour in gear oils, is explained in the article on the figures in an oil data sheet.

Of the Mobil oils in the catalogue, only this one has the DTFR 12B100 code, and it is recorded as an approval, whereas MAN 342 Type M1 appears in the data sheet’s “recommended for” line, so that entry is no confirmation from MAN. Mobilube HD-A Plus 80W-90, despite the similar name, has a different SAE grade and different codes: DTFR 12B110 and MAN 342 Type M3, both listed as approvals. When a truck’s manual names 12B100 or M1, look for that exact code, not for letters the names happen to share.

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