Six ways to distinguish fake engine oil from the original

The service life of the automotive motor directly depends on the quality of the consumables, which are used during its operation. All important: the purity of gasoline, the quality of the used, as well as many other liquids, including engine oil. It is required not only, but also to choose it to choose it to fully fulfill the functions of it.

Many motorists do not understand the importance of buying high-quality engine oils and try to purchase options for cheaper. It is possible to approach the choice of engine oil in a similar way, but it is worth remembering that only the purchase of certified goods is justified. Almost any well-known oil brand is forged, and it becomes more difficult to buy high-quality consumables.

The main task of the engine in the engine is a decrease in the wear of parts as a result of their friction on each other. Each major producer of such consumables has several types of oil on sale, which differ in viscosity, chemical composition and mass of other parameters. At the same time canonically divided all engine oils can be on 3 types:

Before you get to the shelves of stores, oil is undergoing quality control and certification. Based on the conclusion of the commission, the oil producer points to the packaging of its viscosity, properties and other parameters. This requirement is mandatory, and if there are no data on the bottle with oil on its properties, it means that you have a low-quality fake, which is dangerous to pour into the engine.

Drivers who care about their car are recommended to choose one type of oil that they plan to pour into the car throughout its "life". However, there are a lot of fake oils on sale, and buying a familiar consumable material in an unknown store can hire a danger in yourself. We strongly recommend, before pouring the oil into the engine, check it out. Below are 6 ways to check the oil, and it is better to use them all to make sure the product.

Manufacturers of low-quality counterfeit products do not even care about the label, forgetting information to it, without which oil would not have missed. We recommend before buying an oil on the Internet to get acquainted with the way the product package should look like from a particular brand.

• The viscosity class, which is determined by the classification of SAE J 300;
• Engine type - gasoline or diesel;
• Oil base: synthetic, mineral, semi-synthetic;
• International standard, for example, ACEA A3 / B3 / B4 API SL / SF;
• Certification marks, for example, information can be inflicted that the oil has certification from specific manufacturers.

Do not forget to look at the oil date of its manufacture. Not only the number, but also a specific time, as well as the number of the batch of this product should be specified.

Second way: Color check

Oil color can say much. To check it, pour the oil into the transparent container or on a white sheet of paper. High-quality oil gives to the yellowness, while the products made without compliance with the production processes are much darker.

Determine the presence of harmful additives in the engine oil is quite simple if you hold a "paper test". To do this, you will need a blank sheet of paper and a small amount of oil. Take it and pour on paper, after which put it under the tilt and watch the oil flows. The product should remain a practically invisible band. If the trail from the oil is dark, then there are many additives in it, it is necessary to refuse it - this is poor-quality products.

In high-quality oil, there should be no precipitation, and it is obliged to have a homogeneous structure. Check it in two ways:

• The easiest way to pour a little butter on your fingers and rub it. If you feel the presence of small impurities, particles or inhomogeneous oil, from such a product it is necessary to refuse;
• Also, experts recommend the second way to check the oil structure. To do this, it must be pouring it into a transparent container and leave in a dark place for 10-15 minutes. After that, in the light, analyze the product on the number of additives. If the quality of oil is low, it will begin to settle. Foreign particles will be noted in the container. When the structure of oil after such a test remains homogeneous, this indicates its high quality.

Pour into the engine oil with peeling particles is extremely dangerous. They can settle on the parts of the motor and lead to its elevated wear.

Viscosity is one of the main criteria of oil, but it is quite difficult to check the product on it, especially motorists with small experience. In addition, various oils behave differently depending on temperature. It is possible to visually check the viscosity of the oil, if it is freezed, for example, up to a minus 20 degrees Celsius, and then look at its "behavior". In such conditions, it is easiest to determine the quality of oils for the viscosity of 10W-30 and higher, less viscous options will behave almost unchanged.

Sixth way: value for money

No action and never qualitative oil will cost 2-3 times lower than on branded sales points. If you have seen the sale of Mobil oil, Agrinol, Motul in an unknown sales point for you earlier, take it into this with an appropriate alertness.