In brief: gear oils

Section Gear oil and other fluids, article 4 of 782 words, 1 minute

Gear oil is best bought as the genuine original!

In this section: 7 articles
  1. In brief: on changing transmission oil
  2. Choosing coolant
  3. Coolant
  4. In brief: gear oils
  5. Tosol and antifreeze, our car's technical fluids
  6. Ethylene glycol and other achievements protecting your car
  7. Using anti-gel additives in winter

This holds especially true for foreign cars with an automatic transmission. The quality of the oil in an automatic gearbox is a crucial condition for its long service life, and repairing an automatic can cost not much less than buying a new one. So it's not worth the risk of buying substitutes and equivalents of gear oils, risking a counterfeit or an oil whose composition doesn't match. Read more about how to correctly choose and change the service fluids in a car.