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Commercial Road Transport
Driveline Lubricants
Your drivelines - engine, gearbox and axles - carry the weight of your business. Each part of the driveline is an important as the other. They work together, and together they need the heavyweight protection of a specialised Lubricant range.
They need Shell Rimula, Spirax and Retinax lubricants. Specialists that go the distance. Tough-tested during exhaustive field trails. The combined protection-power of these heavyweight engine, gearbox and axle specialists was proved beyond doubt.
Used together, Shell Rimula, Shell Spirax and Shell Retinax have shown their remarkable ability to reduce fuel consumption, extend engine life, increase periods between oil drains, significantly cut overall running costs. Together, they've set standards that others find hard to match.
Shell Rimula - a range of lubricants totally dedicated to diesel engines - is the name of the biggest selling diesel engine oil in the world.
Shell Rimula Ultra is a fully synthetic oil that offers premium performance in diesel engines. It provides ultimate protection and exceptional fuel economy and is the longest life, extended drain oil on the market. Rimula Ultra ensures superb engine cleanliness and optimum performance. The oil's long life enables operational efficiencies and lower maintenance costs.
Shell Rimula Super is a multi-grade oil specifically formulated for diesel engines. Rimula Super provides premium protection and longer life for all low emission, high performance engines. The oil's superb wear protection qualities exceed even the requirements of the next generation of oil specifications for low emission engines. Rimula Super is suitable for all types of heavy duty diesel engines and meets your toughest requirements, both on and off the road.
Shell Rimula X is a bestselling, high performance oil suitable for a broad range of on and off road turbo engines. Its reputation for rugged, hardworking performance is built on millions of kilometres of experience in protecting engines around the world. Exclusively developed by Shell scientists, Rimula X uses a unique combination of booster additives to ensure enhanced protection and longer life. Calcium-based detergents optimise diesel performance.
Shell Rimula D Multigrade is a high quality multigrade engine oil, Rimula D multigrade offers consistent performance, without the additional costs of the extensive approvals associated with high specification oils. Rimula D multigrade is suitable for use in normally aspirated, lightly turbo charged, heavy duty engines where short to normal oil drain intervals are maintained. It meets the performance requirements of turbo charged engines and exceeds the CF-4 performance.
Shell Rimula D Monograde is suitable for a wide range of less-demanding engine service, including use in most non-turbocharged engines and in stationary applications, eg pumps, small generator sets with intermittent operation. Rimula D monograde provides the basic level of industry standard protection (API CF) required by older and less sophisticated engine designs.
Shell Spirax is the most advanced range of gear oils in the world. Spirax ASX, GSX, AX and GX as well as new G and A and long established MA and MB provide the most effective way to give heavy duty gearboxes and axles all the specialist protection they need.
Shell Retinax is a dedicated range of wheel bearing grease tested and proven worldwide to be the best. Retinax LX significantly extends the life of wheel bearings. It is also perfect for a wide range of automotive applications. Retinax HDX is another multi-purpose grease designed for the specialist protection of chassis and fifth wheel components.
What makes Shell's Specialist Driveline Lubricant Lineup unique?
· The confidence, service and reliability of being a Shell brand
· Their high performance developed using cutting edge technology
· Their approval by the world's most respected OEM's,

