I have always been a big fan of this brand. The oil boldly passed the service interval up to 10-15 thousand without losing its working properties. But over the past year and a half, twice out of three oil changes, I began to notice that the engine runs worse after 6-7 thousand, extraneous noises, twitches are heard, and after 8 thousand the properties of the oil are completely lost, the temperature of the oil itself rises, if it had not previously exceeded 100 degrees, now, without the use of a turbine, t exceeded much over 100g and reached 107-111 degrees. It is difficult to talk about a fake, since it is this oil that is protected by the addition of green phosphor, and it is unlikely that someone will fake it when there are a lot of other expensive oils with amber color, besides, I buy oil from one supplier. And if such a mess is in the quality of the oil positioned by LM as "Branded" and not cheap, then what about the quality in the budget LM lines? I don't think the pandemic is an excuse. I no longer use the LM brand.