Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
I think he was meaning to say Grand Cherokee not "Cherokee" IB. The GC can be ordered with the VM 3.0 diesel the Cherokee can not, not in the US/Canada anyway.
The 3.0 diesel uses oil meeting the ACEA-C3 specs. As Ninesbiker pointed out any oil listing the ACEA-C3 spec can be used in the VM 3.0 diesel engine.
Interesting enough I called Amsoil and talked to someone in their technical service department and was told that at this time Amsoil does not have a oil that meets the Chrysler MS-11106 specs!? But on their own website it states;
Manufacturer Approvals
BMW Longlife-04
MB-Approval 229.51
Porsche A40
Recommended for:
API CF/SN/SM...
ACEA C3
Ford WSS-M2C917-A
GM dexos2™ (supersedes LL-A-025 and LL-B-025)
*Chrysler MS-10850 (supersedes MS-10896)*
Renault RN0700/RN0710
Volkswagen 502.00/505.01
* note the spec that supersedes the MB spec is not the CS-11106 spec. So is the CS-11106 the same as the MB-229.51 spec?
Don
I wouldn't chance it for warranty's sake. The list of Manufacturer approved is short and unverified. "Recommended for" means to me that it hasn't been approved by the manufacturer. I'm a Mobil-1 fan but I don't buy into their "recommended for" list either. If it's not approved by the manufacturer, it's not approved by the manufacturer and they can deny warranty coverage in the rare even something goes wrong. When I bought my '05 Hemi powered 2500HD, I was concerned about using 5w-20 oil towing heavy in the heat of the southeast. I emailed Chrysler and got a response back from the Hemi's R&D folks that I could use and he recommended synthetic 5w-30 for towing our weight in our temperatures as long as it was API certified and Chrysler approved. Mobil-1 5w-30 met both.
