It’s tough to remember to get your car’s oil changed, especially if you are busy living your life. Cool Green Auto wants you to know what might happen if you keep letting oil changes slide, though. It’s more important than you might think.
Worst-case Involves Engine Replacement
It’s worth talking about the absolute worst thing that could happen if you skip oil changes. You might just find yourself having to replace your engine completely because it’s blown. To be fair, there are quite a few signs of trouble before you kill your engine entirely. But if you ignore the warning signs below, you’re going to find yourself in a bad situation and likely figuring out how to put a new engine in your car.
Your Engine Could Overheat
One of the things that engine oil does is surprising to car owners. Coolant gets the big kudos for keeping your car’s engine cool, but engine oil also has a role to play in keeping the engine cooler. When you wait too long to get your car’s oil changed, the oil gets old, dirty, and breaks down. That means it isn’t able to keep the engine cool and your car is a lot more likely to overheat.
There’s More Engine Wear
The biggest job that engine oil has in your car is to keep the engine parts properly lubricated and clean. Engine oil does this because it’s greasy and because it picks up debris as it flows through the engine compartment. When the engine oil isn’t doing those two things, the engine parts rub against each other more and there’s a lot more engine wear.
Fuel Efficiency Suffers
Gas mileage is a tricky metric. There are a lot of different factors that contribute to how well your car’s engine utilizes the fuel it pulls from the gas tank. When you don’t get the oil changed in your car when you should, your car’s engine is working harder than it really should. It’s also hotter, dirtier, and stickier than it should be, which means it isn’t operating at its peak.
Ready to get your car’s oil changed and stay on schedule? Give us a call at Cool Green Auto in Shepherdstown, WV so we can set up an appointment for you. We’ll be happy to work with you to keep your car’s oil changed when it needs to be so you can focus on enjoying the drive.