How to choose the motor oil?

It is obvious that the motor oil is necessary for your car, as it lubricates the parts, provides a cold and soft start of the engine, cleans parts, provides work at high temperatures.

Thus, poor quality oil has an extremely negative impact on the condition of your car. For example, soot deposits are formed on the engine, oil residues stagnate, condensation is formed, and regardless of the quality of the oil, it must be changed.

Before you start to understand how to distinguish a fake from the original, it should be noted that for new machines you need to choose synthetic oils, and for cars with mileage semisynthetic useful. Here it is necessary to note the price factor. Low cost, which is always so attractive, can be a signal of forgery. Of course, the price of goods from one fabricator may differ in different places, but this difference will not be so great. Without a doubt, the cost of high-quality oil, will definitely be lower than the cost of auto repair, which will be required after the use of “hodgepodge" products.

So, the simplest and most basic rule to buy in proven places, the probability of getting to smuggled goods is less. Although, as one proverb says, trust but verify.

The jerrican is the most important feature of the quality and authenticity of the oil. Clear printing, labels should be colorful, lines clear and pixels shouldn’t be visible. The color of the jerrican (plastic or metal) differs in color-scale, and depends either on the viscosity or on the capacity (this does not apply to all fabricators). Scammers produce containers in the one color. Though, such insignificant fact can be checked only in comparison. Actually, as well as reliefs and joints on the surface of the container. If you have a container from the original product, keep it in the car, so that during the next purchase you can make a comparison.

In general, you can do without using the latest package in comperisen. If you use a certain brand of motor oil, then it has, without a doubt, its own labeling features that confirm the authenticity of the product.

Inspection of containers start with the lid, most often the devil lies here. Sometimes, there is an inscription (brand name) on the oilcan’s cover, which is located on the top of the lid and on its side, and it is applied by laser. In this case, the side inscription captures both the cover and the protective ring. If the side inscription doesn’t converge, then the bottle was opened. There is a distinctive feature of the American global brand-manufacturer, as there is a two-layer cower-sticker on the lid, under the top layer there is a 16-digit code to check through the official website or QR-code, which is specified in the same place. Another feature of this manufacturer is to check the numbers, which change their color from white to red/pink, if they were made wet.

Often, the lid is barely convex, the edges of it are glossy and the top is matte. There is a gap between the ring and the jar itself. It is obvious that the protective ring is broken and must remain on the bottle, and not to work loose. If there is no gap, and the cover with the ring removed together, it is likely you have a fake.

The back wall of the container. Double and easily removable sticker and protective hologram are two main features of the back bottle side, but just enough features of packaging marking from one British brand. There are manufacturers that offer to send SMS to verify the authenticity of the oil. The cost of SMS according to the tariffs of your mobile operator. Well, the easiest thing, is to know what digits the manufacturer uses. They can be indicated on the back wall along with the production date.

The front label also has a number of features. For example, there is a Korean manufacturer that has letters engraved its own pictured name on the front label. You can notice this feature only at a certain angle of a look of the label. The brighter the light the better shows these signs.

There is a manufacturer that fuses labels into containers at the stage of production, it is a very complex technology. And as a result, the label comes like a plastic and can not be removed or damaged. Each canister has its own laser marked serial number.

To protect against counterfeiting need to bother not only the manufacturer but also the consumer. So to verify the authenticity of the oil, it is necessary to have a UV lamp or UV flashlight. So, when the UV light is directed to the label, it absorbs light completely, and some symbols and viscosity indicators glow and change color.

There is an opinion that the purchasing of not popular brands of motor oils is the guarantee that you will not buy a fake. The quality of these oils is not bad, at least better than the nonartificial product. Since these motor oils are not in high demand from the buyer, and therefore there is no fraud. Although, this information is only an assumption, and when buying little-known brands by everyone, the demand for them will increase and fakes will appear.

To check the quality of the oil, is possible only in the laboratory conditions. A lot depends on the type of engine, year of production, mileage, brand and gasoline. Therefore, not always expensive engine oil can suit your car, but one fact is obvious, for long service and a pleasant ride it is necessary to buy the certified product of high quality. At the time of purchase, you need to be thorough careful.