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I’m currently extremely hungry on knowledge about lubricants & motor oils. This may sound completely insane as most people don’t care about this at all but I found this a very interesting field of technology.

I have read a whole lot of stuff on various forums and other sources on the net and thought it might be a good idea to post some of my findings here on my blog, mostly to have it saved somewhere and easy to find for myself. There are some serious oil-geeks out there and it would be plain stupid not to summarize their knowledge. I believe the best procedure is to post the stuff in shorter portions instead of one long post which may be a bit boring to read.

Most of my colleagues at work seem not so interested in the “oil-thing” so they get quite bored every time I try to lead conversations into that direction so I have to move it to the blog instead and hope there will be a whole bunch of comments on them.

Anyway I should inform you all that I’m an absolute noob in this area and everything I write about it should be enjoyed with caution, don’t hold me responsible for anything written here as the information in that area is provided on a “to the best of my knowledge and belief” basis.

Cars reach higher mileages and the trend is showing that our cars extend their life-cycle more and more, they live longer than in the 70’s or the 80’s. It’s also becoming increasingly important that the engine technology in the cars lasts that long. Therefore you should not buy crappy oil, as it eventually will turn out to be very expensive in the long run.

Each car manufacturer does a whole lot of engine testing for many hours, even a cars whole life-cycle will be tested with different motor oils. The result is more or less the same each and every time, if simple oils are used you’ll see significant wear beside strong deposits which also lead to many problems, in some cases the motor could be even leaking oil were it would be still almost like new if high-quality oil would have been used.

The amount of money a simple motor oil would be cheaper than a high-class one is relatively small and a predictable investment. If we assume that one would spend ~18€ for a 5L canister of cheap motor oil it just would be the double of that price for a really good one instead of the low-tech oil. Guess you would change oil every year the surcharge for the better oil would only be a 180 €, that’s peanuts compared to a engine overhaul due to crappy motor oils.

more to come…