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The subtleties of changing engine oil in a personal car have always aroused greater interest among car owners. Including from the point of view of possible savings on
Motor oils with the expression LongLife in the name are available in the range of almost every self-respecting “oil brand”. After all, a serious struggle for the environment and at the same time to reduce the costs of motorists for the maintenance of personal cars has been going on throughout the automotive world for some time now. That is why almost all car manufacturers have in their brand arsenal of power sources a line of engines for which an extended oil change interval is provided.
Products with LongLife in the name (translated as “long life”, if anyone doesn’t know) refer to oils that can provide an interval between services of 15,000-30,000 kilometers. As a rule, it comes down to the use of fully synthetic base oils by “chemists”. Their share in the final product reaches 30% or more. In addition, additive packages with a larger quantity of ingredients are used, so that they are sufficient for an extended operating interval between lubricant changes.
As for the replacement intervals themselves, in any case they are set by the car manufacturer. And in the vast majority of cases they are strictly ‘tied’ to the specific market where the vehicle is operated. Most car manufacturers who “play games” with extended maintenance intervals only extend them to European countries and the US because they have confidence in the quality of the local fuel. And for the markets of Russia and the countries of the former CIS, the “longlife mode”, as a rule, is officially not available.
Therefore, experiments in this direction are solely the responsibility of car owners themselves. To understand what the catch is here, you need to know this: the “long life” icon on a can of motor oil does not mean that it can run 30,000 km as standard. Not at all.
It’s just that the car’s on-board computer, in which the manufacturer has activated the function of working with LongLife type oil, constantly collects statistics about the favorite operating modes of the engine, the vehicle’s driving modes, climatic conditions and other parameters. In summary, the program determines the degree of aging of the oil in the engine and decides whether it can operate longer than the standard replacement period or not. When the “brain” of the engine is not capable of such calculations, the motorist himself, based on his experience and feelings, may well take on the functions of an advanced on-board computer.
Let’s say that the car “lives” mainly on highways, moving calmly and evenly over flat terrain, where there is little dust in the air and frost is relatively rare. In this case, ‘long life oil’ may not work for the standard 10,000 km, but for the entire 25,000–30,000 km. Well, if the vehicle is used mainly in city traffic, longer service periods are out of the question! On the contrary, the periods for changing the lubricant in the engine should be shortened, for example to 7500 kilometers.
Motor oils with the expression LongLife in the name are available in the range of almost every self-respecting “oil brand”. After all, in the automotive world there has been a serious struggle for the environment for some time and at the same time to reduce the costs of motorists for the maintenance of personal cars. That is why almost all car manufacturers have in their arsenal of power sources a line of engines for which an extended oil change interval is provided.
Products with LongLife in the name (translated as “long life”, if anyone doesn’t know) refer to oils that can provide an interval between services of 15,000-30,000 kilometers. As a rule, it comes down to the use of fully synthetic base oils by “chemists”. Their share in the final product reaches 30% or more. In addition, additive packages with a larger quantity of ingredients are used, so that they are sufficient for an extended operating interval between lubricant changes.
As for the replacement intervals themselves, in any case they are set by the car manufacturer. And in the vast majority of cases they are strictly ‘tied’ to the specific market where the vehicle is operated. Most car manufacturers who “play games” with extended maintenance intervals only extend them to European countries and the US because they have confidence in the quality of the local fuel. And for the markets of Russia and the countries of the former CIS, the “longlife mode”, as a rule, is officially not available.
Therefore, experiments in this direction are solely the responsibility of car owners themselves. To understand what the catch is here, you need to know this: the “long life” icon on a can of motor oil does not mean that it can run 30,000 km as standard. Not at all.
It’s just that the car’s on-board computer, in which the manufacturer has activated the function of working with LongLife type oil, constantly collects statistics about the favorite operating modes of the engine, the driving modes of the vehicle, climatic conditions and other parameters. In summary, the program determines the degree of aging of the oil in the engine and decides whether it can operate longer than the standard replacement period or not. When the “brain” of the engine is not capable of such calculations, the motorist himself, based on his experience and feelings, may well take on the functions of an advanced on-board computer.
Let’s say that the car “lives” mainly on highways, moving calmly and evenly over flat terrain, where there is little dust in the air and frost is relatively rare. In this case, ‘long life oil’ may not work for the standard 10,000 km, but for the entire 25,000–30,000 km. Well, if the vehicle is used mainly in city traffic, longer service periods are out of the question! On the contrary, the periods for changing the lubricant in the engine should be shortened, for example to 7500 kilometers.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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