Choosing oil
How to pick the right engine oil for your engine: a step-by-step guide, reading the label, choosing by brand, and short, ad-free advice.
Subsections
- Choosing oil in 7 steps The site's main guide: seven simple steps after which you'll know exactly which oil to put in your engine, and why.
- Label and counterfeits What's actually printed on the can, how to read the markings, and how to avoid buying a counterfeit.
- Choosing oil by brand How to use the online oil finders from Castrol, Mobil, Shell, Liqui Moly, Motul, ELF and other manufacturers.
- Advice on choosing oil Short answers to the most common questions: which oil is better, what criteria to use, and whether it's worth paying more.
Articles
- Here are the main questions you'll find answered on this site: An introduction from the site’s author: eight main questions about engine oil, from choice, changes, additives and flushing to SAE viscosity, approvals and synthetics.
- What engine oil does your engine need? The site’s main idea: engine oil either suits your engine or it does not, and an expensive but unsuitable one harms sooner; about avtomaslo.info and its forum.