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Many motorists are faced with the fact that previously relatively affordable imported motor oils now cost an unimaginable amount of money. In this regard, citizens have a serious
Last year, a canister of normal high-quality engine lubricant was given away for less than 4,000 rubles, and today they ask for it in the store for almost 10,000! Thousands of motorists, many of them owners of relatively fresh foreign cars, are now facing similar pricing lawlessness. Everyone wants to maintain the car with the same quality and budget as before. But dealers in automotive consumables have a completely different opinion on this. Is it possible to use cheaper oil without giving up expensive oil?
For example, topping up the engine between replacements or mixing lubricants in different proportions during maintenance. It is clear that it is better not to combine different brands of oils. Simply because we don’t know exactly how their base, base and additive packages will behave “in one bottle”. But if you act wisely, why not? Several conditions must be met for the safety of such an experiment. It is clear that it is better to add “plastic” to “plastic”. It is also desirable that both blended oils have the same SAE viscosity. For example, if 5W30 is under water, we also add 5W30. Well, if you add even a decent amount of 5W30 to 5W40, most modern engines won’t even notice.
In addition, when thinking about adding cheap oil to expensive oil, it makes sense to remember that products of the same brand are most likely produced using similar technologies. Therefore, it can be expected that the differences in their properties will not become critical for the engine. In an effort to save money on adding cheap oil to more expensive oil, you will need to increase your skill in lubrication technology. To know: where the high price of the lubricant is due to the high cost of production, and where – banal marketing. Oils obtained by so-called hydrocracking are considered synthetic. This is one of the cheapest ways to get “plastic”.
More expensive synthetic lubricants are products based on polyalphaolefins (PAO). Synthetic ester oils are even more expensive to manufacture. In a word, when objectively expensive ester oil is poured into the engine, it is clearly not worth diluting it with cheap hydrocracking oil. They have completely different “bases” that do not know how they will behave in joint operation. It’s a different matter if you use hydrocracking oil, but of an expensive and “pumpy” brand. You can safely dilute it with another hydrocracking product at a lower cost. The engine will certainly “digest” this mixture.
Last year, a canister of normal high-quality engine lubricant was given away for less than 4,000 rubles, and today they ask for it in the store for almost 10,000! Thousands of motorists, many of them owners of relatively fresh foreign cars, are now facing similar pricing lawlessness. Everyone wants to maintain the car with the same quality and budget as before. But dealers in automotive consumables have a completely different opinion on this. Is it possible to use cheaper oil without giving up expensive oil?
For example, topping up the engine between replacements or mixing lubricants in different proportions during maintenance. It is clear that it is better not to combine different brands of oils. Simply because we don’t know exactly how their base, base and additive packages will behave “in one bottle”. But if you act wisely, why not? Several conditions must be met for the safety of such an experiment. It is clear that it is better to add “plastic” to “plastic”. It is also desirable that both blended oils have the same SAE viscosity. For example, if 5W30 is filled, we also add 5W30. Well, if you add even a decent amount of 5W30 to 5W40, most modern engines won’t even notice.
In addition, when thinking about adding cheap oil to expensive oil, it makes sense to remember that products of the same brand are most likely produced using similar technologies. Therefore, it can be expected that the differences in their properties will not become critical for the engine. In an effort to save money on adding cheap oil to more expensive oil, you will need to increase your skill in lubrication technology. To know: where the high price of the lubricant is due to the high cost of production, and where – banal marketing. Oils obtained by so-called hydrocracking are considered synthetic. This is one of the cheapest ways to get “plastic”.
More expensive synthetic lubricants are products based on polyalphaolefins (PAO). Synthetic ester oils are even more expensive to manufacture. In a word, when objectively expensive ester oil is poured into the engine, it is clearly not worth diluting it with cheap hydrocracking oil. They have completely different “bases” that do not know how they will behave in joint operation. It’s a different matter if you use hydrocracking oil, but of an expensive and “pumpy” brand. You can safely dilute it with another hydrocracking product at a lower cost. The engine will certainly “digest” this mixture.
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