I have been using the Shell Helix Ultra from Tesco / Giant for the past 6 years on both my cars covering over 250K km combined.

No issues and I trust that Tesco will not jeopardize their own liability for selling fake products.

By the way, Tesco is having the sale now again till end of Oct , @RM109.

Tesco and Giant recently start selling 5w30 Shell Ultra, silver bottle instead of grey, made in Germany.

Got meh? Didn't notice. But I know giant will always be cheaper than Tesco.

Did you catch what's the price?

that should be shell hx8 instead of ultra, no?

Yes Giant normally cheaper. Around rm100-110 if not mistaken.

Oh ya HX8, sorry my mistake. But it's also stated as full synth.

Yeap. Its fully syn. But note that its SL instead or SN spec

There is a Russia Virgin Oil Analysia VOA for Shell Helix HX8 5W30 SN here , quite impressive indeed .

This is good price! Will get one or 2 bottle.

thanks will check it out....
loyal supporter of tesco/giant SHU since few yrs ago

Today visited Giant Kelana Jaya and they only have Shell semi-synthetic oil. Went over to Tesco Paradigm Mall and they only have 5 bottles of 4L Shell Helix Ultra 5W-40 Fully Synthetic left, at RM109. API SN, ACEA A3/B4. Made in Germany. I bought 1 so there's 4 left!

I myself bought a bottle to test it out on an old car one more time. Previously had used this before but within 5k km i actually got my mech to drain them all out and replace with LM 10w-30 Semi Sync.

I did pour out the oil from the bottle to have a look indeed it's darker than a normal. I would assume in EU they really do recycle their engine oil due to environmental reason. Let's see if it's really good as claimed by the fellow forumers here who have been using it for donkey years.

Are you suggesting it's the EU based oil are partly recycled oil ?

They do have strict rules in recycling of used oil, but not back into engine oil. It's recycle into many by-products such as bitumen / oil stock for industrial use.

Anyway, as anything goes , use at your own risk and more importantly doing a timely change of oil is better than using high grade oil but neglect changing it.

well that's all i can say pouring it out, it's indeed pretty dark unlike the ones you will get from your official service center and/or from petrol kiosk. Yup, will give it a try if the engine do not feel right will flush it out asap.

Well considering so many peeps had vouch for Tesco Shell oils i just can't sit around and not testing it.. Especially when it's RM109 for fully sync.

By right Giant / Tesco should sell the HX8 at lower price than Ultra, because if you take a look at Shell stations, HX8 is around RM 180 vs Ultra which is RM 220 plus.

and the reason why Shell Malaysia introduce HX8 is to so-call make their Fully synthetic more affordable and keeping their Ultra , the top of the line model , although there is one more , rare, limited edition called Shell Helix Power.

https://www.shell.com.hk/zh_hk/motorists/oi...helixpower.html

The difference between the HX8 and the Ultra is not just fully synthetic. Like someone mentioned here in BITOG forum:

https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbth...lix_HX8___5w-30

Kinda like HX8 is Nescafe and Ultra being...Starbucks kopi.
Heck if my car can drink Starbuck coffee at discounted price, why would I still buy Nescafe?

BTW, I have tried the Ultra to like 13K before I decided "enough is enough". My 2 sens, If its recycled oil or some minyak masak in disguised, it would had break down at 3K mileage.

I’m new to this topic after read from this forum discussion,I think I made a good decision and get a good deal in giant
Thank everyone for sharing

Very good buy! Use in good faith.

you sapu 10 bottles ??

i sapu 8 bottles LEL

You guys making me furious leh.

You still can get 5w40 at Tesco.
RM 109 I think.

I drove 20km just to get EO LMAO