Quote Originally Posted by G01 View Post
I was disappointed to learn that the 15W40 Valvoline Blue oil being sold in the states is not the one currently available at SM Baguio. What's available is the 15W40 Valvoline All-Fleet Premium with a TBN of 9.5 according to the Valvoline Asia website that was posted earlier by Ry_Tower http://www.valvolineasia.com/Upload/...et_Premium.pdf. Bought two 5-liter containers anyway to try on my Strada that requires 9 liters of oil. Price is almost 4 times cheaper than the Mobil 1 Delvac 5W40. Hoping that this Valvoline oil will be good for a 10,000 kilometers oil-change interval.



These are the images of the oem oil filter after a little over 10,000 kilometers with the Mobil 1 Delvac 5W40. I also cut-opened the used fuel filter.






There have been photos of the used and cut-opened Fleetguard LF3830, Bosch and the Baldwin BD28 posted several pages back. Comparing these to those pictures that were posted earlier, I noticed that the quality of the OEM oil filter looks better than the Fleetguard and Bosch counterparts. The Balwin BD28 looks well-built though and I am sure it has a better filtration compared to the OEM filter. I really doubt the filtration efficiency of the Fleetguard LF3830 being sold locally which looks to have even lesser number of pleats than the OEM filter.

I also decided to change the fuel filter to a new one after seeing lots of particles mixed with the diesel fuel coming out of the filter's fuel-outlet while hand-pumping to fill-up the filter with fuel after having drained the accumulated water and dirt at the bottom of the filter.
sir, how did you open your filter?

for diesel engine, a good alternative would be top1 Synthetic diesel oil. as posted a few pages back, its a good diesel engine oil. priced at 260-300 per liter.