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Most people understand that motor oil is a vital component for the internal combustion engines that power most of our cars. Not only does oil act as a lubricant, allowing internal moving parts to ...

Motor oil is the lifeblood of your car's engine. Not only does it provide lubrication for all of your engine's internal moving parts — of which there are massive amounts — but it also works like a ...

It sounds like a basic procedure — pull the dipstick, check the oil level, and top off if needed. However, if that is your whole game plan, you might be missing what the dots and lines on that metal ...

To understand how overfilling your engine oil is too much of a good thing, it’s helpful to provide a little background. Engines are comprised of hundreds of precision-crafted parts working in unison ...

Keeping a combustion-engined car in shape requires some effort. Part of that is changing the motor oil and filter on a regular basis to lubricate the moving metal components and keep the engine in ...

CARS.COM — We’ll pull no punches in saying it: Engine oil is a crucial thing to keep tabs on from a maintenance perspective. That means you should check your vehicle’s engine oil at least once a month ...

Synthetic oil used to be something only performance cars needed, but not anymore. Now it’s the manufacturer-recommended engine lubricant in many mainstream vehicles, such as the Subaru Forester and ...

While changing your oil every 3,000 miles was standard practice many years ago, modern lubricants and advances in engine materials and tolerances have largely made that frequency unnecessary. So, is ...

Where Is the Oil in a Car and What Does it Do? The typical engine has a large oil reservoir (the crankcase) that holds several quarts of oil. The oil is drawn from the crankcase oil pan into a tube ...