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Importance of Engine Oil Changes
Without any doubt engine oil is the most critical fluid in your engine. It can be compared directly as an example to human blood in a human body. Can you live without blood? Even more important is the blood circulation throughout our organic system. It is useless having blood if no circulation flow occurs within one’s body.
 Changing Oil should be part of vehicle's Scheduled Service An internal combustion engine is no different. It will determine the engine’s life or death (engine seizure – meaning micro welding of reciprocating engine parts). And don’t be fooled by those who claim engine oil changes are only necessary on older engines, just to keep them going and to pass the smog test. The sad reality is that they are “partially correct” that is if you don’t mind rebuilding, or scrapping your engine when the inevitable engine seizure reaches out its harsh hand on your engine!
What I mean here is that most modern engines have much prolonged oil changes when compared to 10 to 15 year old engines. There is nothing wrong with all that as long as it is requested by the vehicle manufacturer. Sure they is no way they are risking part of your new vehicle’s warranty which includes the engine. Vehicle manufacturers are constantly making their internal R&D (Research & Development) and have many production engines on various different tests (some are extreme tests simulations) so they can improve the engine life, and most importantly to stick with all these ever-increasing tight emissions and pollution regulations across the world. What you might not know is that even though engine life has been increased through modern technology advancements, which include everything from inside the and outside the engine that all adds up to make a regularly serviced engine last much longer (we are speaking of much higher mileages here 200,000 – 300,000 miles and sometimes even more before a major rebuild), emissions should remain nearly the same as when it was new.
The percentage allowance of extra pollution is pitiful – so the manufacturers are in a constant battle against themselves and their rival manufacturers to improve their engine life while keeping to the international smog rules. This is no mean feat in itself, as you have probably guessed, but bear in mind that USA has different smog rules within its own states, European countries have what we can refer to as a “constant medium” which should apply to all EU countries, and meet most worldwide regulations. But that does not mean that each country has the exact same rules or amount of regulations. Far from it, those are only the compulsory requirements which should apply to every EU country. Each country can add or improve these rules as long as they are on the positive side, you know what I mean. This means that even within the EU countries some countries have tighter emission tests and regulations. Here we only stated the very basics and assumed that your vehicle is driven normally (no hard accelerations/decelerations with unnecessary hard braking) with enough traveling distance for the engine oil to reach its optimum working temperature. Vehicles subjected to regular short trips and where regular traffic jams are encountered the oil service intervals must be reduced accordingly (play safe and divide that manufacturer service interval in half. Example instead of recommended 20,000km do it at 10,000km). Try avoid these type of driving conditions if possible – “Cold Start and Stop Distances.” These type of driving conditions are one of the engine’s culprits in reducing engine life, even on a regularly serviced engine. “Stick to your Recommended Engine Oil Service Intervals stated by the manufacturer and also use the same grade of oil they recommend on all modern vehicles.” Extra Tip: I would also suggest that Oil Filters are changed with every Oil Change, even though many manufacturers use the rule of “Two Oil Changes and One Oil Filter change.”
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