Choosing engine oil may be the most headache for car owners, using good engine oil can significantly reduce engine noise and reduce its shaking, not using it well will increase engine noise, aggravate engine wear, and even shorten the service life of the engine.
Since Mars has been in the industry, many car owners have asked me for advice on "how to choose engine oil", and have also made detailed replies to some problems encountered by car owners when choosing engine oil. It may be because the solution given before is too cumbersome, and many novice car owners say in private messages: "Many methods feel inapplicable". In order to facilitate novice car owners to quickly choose the right oil for their own car, Mars has communicated with many car owners on the "oil selection program", I thought of a most suitable method for novice car owners to choose engine oil from the oil selection process of a Japanese novice car owner:
Follow the path of your predecessors and let your predecessors explore their own path
Take the path of the predecessors and let the seniors explore the way for themselves", this sentence is easy to understand. It can be understood that what oil the old car owners use, we will follow what oil to use, the old car owners are more experienced than the novice car owners, and the engine oil they use for a long time must be more suitable.
This is the case with the Japanese car owner we mentioned earlier, and he doesn't know what kind of engine oil is suitable for his car after picking it up. Just simply asked a few old Japanese drivers, and learned from the old drivers: "Idemitsu IFG series low-viscosity fully synthetic engine oil, very suitable for Japanese engine use", and then went to the major Japanese car circles to check, and found that it is indeed as the old driver said: "Idemitsu fits Japanese cars, and Japanese car owners who are using Idemitsu engine oil account for the majority." The owner of the car simply confirmed what kind of engine oil to use, and according to the owner, "it took less than one hour to decide to use Idemitsu IFG series low-viscosity engine oil."
Guys, that's easy enough, isn't it?As long as the owner of the engine maintenance information, whether it is a Japanese car owner or a Japanese car, will not doubt the compatibility between Idemitsu engine oil and Japanese engine, right?
No matter how good the way to go, the product quality must also be understood
The road of predecessors is easy to walk, and the quality of engine oil also needs to be checked by themselves. Although the quality of the products used by many people is not bad, car owners also need to distinguish the type, certification, and performance of the engine oil used. For the sake of easy understanding, Mars will take Idemitsu engine oil as an example to see how the engine oil used by the owner agrees that it is "suitable for Japanese engines".
Let's look at the type first: From the introduction of the outer packaging of Idemitsu IFG series engine oil, we can understand that Idemitsu IFG series is a high-quality fully synthetic engine oil that has passed a number of certifications such as API SP and ILSAC GF-6A. According to the characteristics of Japanese engines, it can be concluded that most Japanese car owners are using Idemitsu IFG series 0W-20 low-viscosity engine oil.
Look at the performance again: Before the owner has not experienced the Idemitsu product, if you want to understand the performance of the Idemitsu oil, you can only get it from the mouth of the old user of Idemitsu, you can ask the owner who is using the Idemitsu, or you can directly inquire about the feedback of each owner on the Internet. I briefly searched for the owner's evaluation of Idemitsu engine oil, and the owners who used Idemitsu unanimously agreed: "Idemitsu not only has a good effect on energy saving and noise reduction, but also performs well in terms of power improvement, durability, and cleaning."
From the two points listed above, at least let the owner understand what type of engine oil he uses, and what the general performance of the engine oil is, so that the owner can proofread it during use.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The selection method listed in the article only represents Mars' personal advice, the car is its own, no matter what type of oil product is used, it is subject to the owner's own experience.