SHOP TALK
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• Workshop, as its name
has a straightforward goal: to help workshop managers and ownerdrivers alike service vehicles properly and at minimum cosi. In this context nothing can be more important than oil, which is commonly likened to the lifeblood of the vehicle. To extend that analogy, would you want a transfusion with blood of the wrong group? Presumably not — and, neither do your vehicles' engines, gearboxes or driven axles.
Yet despite the potentially disastrous effects of using the wrong oil, you might be forgiven for thinking there is a conspiracy between Idie oil companies and the vehicle manufacturers to confalse the people who rely on their products.
All oil companies and vehicle manufacturers employ experts who know the ins and outs of their respective products, but they seem unable or unwilling to communicate the needs of a vehicle and the suitability of an oil to anyone else.
This issue of Workshop is designed to fill this gap and help you to pick the right oil for your vehicle or vehicles. With this in mind, the Workshop Ways feature will in future carry the specifications as well as the viscosity and quantity of oils required during a service,