Engine oil RAVENOL or Pentosin

Ravenol user here (previously motul and shell user). So far, engine temp is 1 line lower, quieter engine, and very slightly better fuel economy. Ravenol for the Altis 2.0, yaris, and rav4.

On 2006 F800S i have used Ravenol. I tried Shell, BMW oil(Shell, basically) and Ravenol. With Ravenol- no false neutrals. At stops i was able to find neutral almost instantly... And engine sounds somewhat "greasy"

I use Ravenol on my 1NZ and 3ZR engines.

After talking to a European mechanic. He said u need Germany oil for a German car. American oil is trash bc of the EPA regulations. He recommended Pentosin. The tick tock went away and I've been using it every oil change

I have an Octavia 2.5 vRS TDI and it has 450k km now, it only drank 5w30 and never an issue, not even in cold winters and I had a few -25 starts and it started right away, at the first key turn.

I have been using the Pentosin in mine and have not had any cam issues after putting in a new cam.

I got my 2018 Sprinter and so have used the Pento HPII in that as well.

Even Ravenol, which is pretty expensive since it is made in Germany from Group V base stock. Great stuff.

I used to have castrol but since i chiptuned my octavia i switched to ravenol and the oil temps went down a good bit and it doesnt use any oil but that could also be because the old oil was 0w20 and the new one is 5w40

after 2000km of running on it, i see there is quite a drop (30% from the max point). i think that is very weird...