HEAT - YOUR ENGINES' DEADLY ENEMY!

We love the warmth and the sun here in Florida.  It is probably the biggest reason many people live here.  It is the reason so many people come to Florida for vacation!  But our cars and trucks hate it!  Why?  Because heat can destroy your engine.

Heat is an engine's worst enemy.  Heat causes engine oil to break down and lose its ability to lubricate and cool the metal parts.  This breakdown has a cascading effect, because oil is also supposed to reduce friction.  Friction causes heat.  Do you see the cycle developing here?  The hotter the operating environment, the faster the oil breaks down. The faster the oil breaks down, the less protection it provides, and the more your engine suffers.

Rub your hands together, and feel the heat that is created.  Engines run much faster than we rub our hands together.  They create much more heat.  Remembering that heat is your engine's worst enemy, shouldn't you try to reduce the amount of heat created?  Using a high quality synthetic engine oil is an absolute necessity if you want your engine to last longer and need less maintenance.

Conventional oils, those with refined crude oil bases, cannot protect nearly as well as today's synthetic oils.  A high quality synthetic oil is designed to protect better and longer.  It is designed to reduce friction, which reduces heat.  It also does a better job of cooling the engine because the molecules of synthetic oil are uniform and they grab the heat better.  That heat is then transferred to the oil pan and dissipated into the atomosphere.

Because synthetic oils protect longer, the need for oil changes every 3000 to 5000 miles can be changed.  A synthetic oil can last as much as 25,000 miles between changes.  Say you could extend the change intervals from 5,000 miles to 10,000 miles.  By doing so, you have eliminated one oil change.  Synthetic oils are slightly more expensive than a quality conventional oil, but you will still save money.  You will also have reduced the amount of used oil that has to be recycled by one half!  That has a huge environmental impact. You have also reduced the use of foreign oil.  All of this is a win-win situation!

Want more information on this?  Just get in touch with me.  I will be happy to help you.