Hot life of engine oil

Explosive things happen when you turn on your car engine. 

Thanks to your engine oil for keeping damage to a minimum.

Imagine thousands of small fireworks exploding every minute. Under the hood of your car. Those thousands of little controlled explosions are how your engine propels your car down the highway.

You can't hear them - your car's muffler will take care of that. You don't see them either. Everything happens behind the metal walls of the engine compartment. And thanks to your engine oil, those explosions won't destroy your engine.

It's a constant struggle with heat and friction 

These explosions move your engine pistons up and down. Then IMany details turn this up and down movement into a circular motion of your wheels. Motor oil washes these parts as they work together, keeping them smooth and slippery, ensuring metal doesn't scratch metal. Without engine oil, the moving parts of your engine will thrash and thrash against each other, turning a finely tuned car into a useless pile of scrap metal. 

Providing this protective bath is extremely hot work. The temperature inside your engine's combustion chamber can easily reach 2,700 degrees - hot enough to melt iron. 

And dirt too. A lot of dirt. 

Also, the inside of your engine is not the cleanest place on earth. A little dirt here, a little dirt there, and soon there are little lumps of goo floating in your oil. Not only that, the rubbing of all those moving parts can cause little bits of metal to flake off into your oil. Heat stress, lumps of mucus, little bits of metal. This cannot go on forever. For most cars and most motor oils, the limit is around 5,000 miles.

So, the next time your car tells you it's time for an oil change, remember that your engine did a good job on spa day. Oh, and if you want us to take you to the spa (or you just need to get back to work), just ask us for a ride on our free shuttle. We will be happy to take you where you need to go and pick you up when your car is ready.

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