Kunle Shonaike
I ran into a female car owner who, recognising my “bearded face” from “that PUNCH motor column,” asked me the question that’s improvised above as the headline of today’s piece.
I must confess that I was a bit melodramatic in my response to her: I asked to be given any engine oil plastic container around. Once that had been secured, I then started by stating and explaining the chief criterion that must be established in getting the right specification of engine oil: first, identify the particular engine oil specification that your car/vehicle’s engine manufacturer has recommended to be used in its engine.
“Engineer, how can I know that — what my manufacturer says I must use?” “Easy,” I retorted. If you open your vehicle’s bonnet/hood, there’s a particular channel where the engine oil is poured down through to the automobile’s engine….
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