The owners manual will give the requirements for all vehicle fluids. They will be listed with API, SAE and MIL numbers. Since the petroleum companies pay a lot to get their products tested and approved, they don't like to do it very often. So they usually try to not only meet the current requirements but try to surpass them so they can undergo the fewest tests necessary. So if the bottle of oil has the vehicle's required lables you should be good to go.
American Petroleum Institute
Society of American Engineers
Military
Regarding reconditioned oil:
I kicked pedals and jammed gears for 9 years, dragging around a 42 foot 9,000 gallons tanker for Conoco and Phillips 66. And I have had station dealers tell me they have put re-refined/reconditioned oil in old oil burning engines. Oil bottles of the same weight oil would pour in 'glug......glug......glug.' And the next bottle would pour 'glugglugglug.'
That is hear-say evidence, I admit. But I can't see using it except for an oil-burning engine.
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