what is the best motor oil available ?
The best motor oil for your vehicle is one that is the type and weight specified in your owner’s manual. Oil performs several functions: Lubrication, Corrosion protection, Cooling, and Contaminant transfer (to the filter). Most major brands are acceptable and do a good job. The synthetics offer the only truly significant differences, due to their superior high temperature oxidation resistance, high film strength, very low tendency to form deposits, stable viscosity base, and low temperature flow characteristics. Synthetics are superior lubricants compared to traditional petroleum oils. You will have to decide if their high cost is justified in your application. Oil additives should not be used. The oil companies have gone to great lengths to develop an additive package that meets the vehicle’s requirements. Some of these additives are synergistic, that is the effect of two additives together is greater than the effect of each acting separately. If you add anything to the oil you may up
