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Decoding your engine oil

This guide explains how engine oil color and texture serve as vital indicators of a vehicle's internal health and maintenance needs.
The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a ...
High Detergent? High Definition? Howdy Doody? Just what, exactly, does it mean when the label on your vehicle's motor oil uses the initials HD?
Swiss marine power company WinGD has completed type approval testing and factory acceptance testing of their ammonia-fuelled ...
The GM L87 engine recall that has affected almost 600,000 full-size trucks and SUVs in the U.S. and has led to multiple ...
The 6.2-liter V8 engine recall saga is far from being over and no real solution appears to be on the horizon. GM recalls nearly 600,000 trucks and SUVs for potential L87 engine failures. Dealers ...
General Motors has issued updated guidance to its dealer network with regard to the engine oil spec used for units of the 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine impacted by last year’s recall. In a series of new ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As engine standards change, the oil that protects them has to change too — especially for drivers buying new trucks in the next ...
Like most products sold on the market, motor oils have their own standardization systems. These can be either global or national. SAE: the basic global viscosity standard Global standards are ...
Abstract: This study aims to evaluate the degradation level of engine oils used in internal combustion engines by analyzing the physicochemical changes they undergo over time using FTIR (Fourier ...