Help your car perform well with lubrication

Every car owner must always bear in mind that with proper maintenance, they can dramatically prolong the life of their vehicle and increase its value up to several millions. Agreed that cars cannot speak but once you cultivate regular car maintenance habits, they can repay you in manifold.

Among a set of car maintenance tasks, lubrication is one of the most important things. Though every car owner will know what is lubrication and the real value of lubrication in car maintenance, there are a few things about this that most people might not know.

In the absence of proper lubrication, even a brand new Porsche car will fail within a short time. Lubricating the car is not only checking the oil periodically and topping up the oil level once it comes down. There are other lubricators in the cars including grease, transmission fluid, motor oil and gear lube.

The efficiency of a given lubricant must be decided on the following parameters. You must take into account, the extent of the lubricant’s capacity to minimize friction and its ability to maintain internal cleanliness in the lubricated parts by suspending the dust particles that might stick to them. Lubricants must be able to cool the moving parts of your car and help in dissipating the heat generated. Piston ring, piston and cylinder contact regions must be protected by the lubricant to avoid contamination. Lubrication will help in preventing mechanical shock to vital parts and also to avoid corrosion of lubricated parts.

With a lot of manufacturers advertising their lubricators out there, it will be really hard to find the good one for your car. To deciding on the right lubricant, the best judge is none else than yourself. You need to test a few good ones in your cars and closely observe the way your drive feels and the way the parts respond. A bit of research like this from your side is necessary to ascertain the best ones under each of the lubricants listed in this article for your car.

You also need to know this. Good lubricants need not be the costly ones. Your experience will tell you this and guide you with the selection process.

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About the author:

Vivek is a mechanical engineer and has more than 7 years of experience as a writer. He blogs about various topics; entrepreneurship being one. His interests range from poetry, music to photography and travel. He can be reached at sdkrdk@gmail.com