Shell Helix Essential Drive ECT 5W-30

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Low-SAPS 5W-30 engine oil rated ACEA C3 and API SP for car petrol engines, diesels with a particulate filter and gas-fuelled engines.

Classification
Product line Shell Helix Essential Drive 3 oils
SAE viscosity 5W-30What SAE means
Intended use passenger cars
API class What API means
ACEA class What ACEA means
Typical properties
Viscosity at 40 °C 69.02 mm²/s
Viscosity at 100 °C 12.11 mm²/s
Pour point -45 °C
Flash point 238 °C
Density 836 kg/m³

Description

Shell Helix Essential Drive ECT 5W-30 is an entry-level low-SAPS oil from the Helix Essential Drive line, intended for everyday use in cars. It suits petrol engines, diesels with a particulate filter and engines running on LPG or natural gas.

The oil is rated ACEA C3 and API SP. The maker lists no car-maker approvals for it, so it is the right choice only where the service documentation asks for these classes alone.

Typical figures: 12.11 mm²/s at 100 °C, 69.02 mm²/s at 40 °C, pour point -45 °C, flash point 238 °C.

Application

Cars with petrol engines, diesels fitted with a particulate filter and engines running on LPG or CNG, where the car maker does not require a specific approval.

Worth knowing

Several Shell oils carry ACEA C3 and API SP in 5W-30, and Essential Drive ECT is the one among them that goes without carmaker approvals. The same two classes and almost the same typical figures (12.1 mm²/s at 100 °C, pour point -45 °C, flash point 238 °C) are recorded for Helix Ultra ECT C3 5W-30, but that oil also has the official approvals MB 229.31, MB 229.51, MB 229.52, BMW Longlife-04 and Chrysler MS-11106. Helix Extra ECT Multi 5W-30, with the same classes, is approved to VW 504.00, VW 507.00, MB 229.31 and MB 229.51, and only states that it meets the requirements of BMW Longlife-04 and Porsche C30. So cans with identical classes can still differ in their lists of approvals.

Within the Essential Drive line, class C3 is recorded only for this oil. Essential Drive 5W-40 and 10W-40 have ACEA A3/B4, a full-SAPS class for engines without a particulate filter; how the A/B family differs from the C classes is explained in the article on the ACEA classes in force today.

Data current as of data partly verifiedsome specifications could not be confirmed from an official sourceCheck the label and the current product data sheet before you buy.

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