How to save a lot on changing engine oil
What if the owner of a car (especially not a new one), when experienced experts advise one oil change interval in the engine, the automaker company another, and the collective consciousness on the Internet a third option? An additional unknown parameter in this equation is the high cost of each replacement and the reluctance of the car owner to spend extra money.
In order not to overpay extra for regular maintenance of your car, first of all, you should pay attention to the brand of the manufacturer of the oil that you pour into your engine. Now automakers, in pursuit of the opportunity to declare their car super-duper-green, are making increasingly severe demands on oil suppliers. Oilers are forced to go to great lengths to create ever more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly recipes. The craze for low-volume turbocharged engines only adds headaches to oil manufacturers. After all, their products have to work in completely more cruel conditions inside such motors.
Therefore, you can start saving on engine oil changes even at the stage of choosing a car. It is recommended to choose models with naturally aspirated engines, preferably without a start-stop system that can turn off the engine when stopped and start it when starting off. Not only does it not really save fuel, it also leads to an increased ingress of fuel (at the time of each start) into the oil. Under such conditions, only specially designed lubricants can normally lubricate the engine. When you have a simpler motor, and there are no newfangled "eco-electro-systems" in the car, then oil for it can be used much cheaper.
If you do not "go in cycles" in oils of expensive brands officially recommended by the automaker, you can save an additional weighty "penny". The main thing when choosing an engine oil is to choose a product that matches the characteristics of SAE - so that all these “so-and-so Ws” required by your engine are met.
An additional financial "bonus" for oil changes can be given by the inclusion of common sense in choosing its timing. Installed by the automaker in the "manual" for your car, they are designed for a car operated in certain average conditions.
But if your passenger car does not work in a taxi, you do not carry a trailer with it, do not participate in “traffic light races”, do not wade daily through muddy primers, etc., then this means that its engine works practically in a “sanatorium » mode. On the other hand, it is known that even official dealers do not see any crime in the fact that a client brings his car for an oil change 2000 miles late. From the foregoing, we can safely conclude: with gentle operation of the car, the oil change period can be extended by about 5000 km. Considering that Internet authorities are categorically confident in the need to change the oil every 10 kilometers, then an increase of 000 times this period gives, as we see, one and a half times savings on regular “oil” maintenance!
You can find out more about the problems of choosing oil, changing it, saving money and other nuances of using lubricants here.
