Does it seem like your engine is even less interested in functioning during cold weather than you are? This article can help you improve your cold starts. You know you aren’t the only one who doesn’t enjoy waking up as the weather starts to cool. While you might not think too much about it, your car can also be negatively affected the change in temperature. While your regular method of getting it ready is to simply leave it idle for five minutes, not only is this just wasting gas, it could actually be making the problem worse.

How to Give Your Car a Helping Hand During a Cold Morning

To help you learn more about the effects that cold weather can have on your vehicle and how you can help your car start better in the morning, Ed Welliver has a great post to share. The best way to start is with the most basic understanding of how your engine works. Don’t worry, it will be a quick and easy to understand lesson. If you were to look at a cross-section of your engine you would see any number of metal parts, small, medium, and large in size. Each of these parts will be tightly packed into its quarters where it can do its task to keep your engine going and your vehicle moving. As you turn the ignition, each of these parts leaps into action to do its part. For some of these parts, their job is to simply turn or open. For others, they are required to interact with other parts inside your engine. While it may sound harmless enough, this interaction involves each of these metal parts grinding up against each other under high levels of pressure and extreme temperatures. Just like you would imagine, this can’t happen for too long before your engine starts to suffer serious damage and eventually seize up. The primary reason why this doesn’t happen to your engine right now is because of a well-known product called motor oil. You may also know it as engine lubricant or simply engine oil. Whichever name you have heard, it provides one amazing job - engine lubrication. As you pour your motor oil into your engine, it makes its way in and around each of the parts inside, finding all of the small and intricate spaces where tiny yet important part interactions occur. Once it has found these places, it not only sticks around (pun intended), but it also moves to coat each of the engine parts around it. With this layer of protection in place, instead of grinding and scraping, each part can smoothly slide against each other, promoting smooth and frictionless operation. Click here to buy AMSOIL Signature Series 0W-20 Synthetic Motor Oil which has been designed to give your engine the best protection possible through the changing temperatures. Speak with Ed Welliver today by calling (956) 458-9399 to find out more.

That's Great, but What Does the Weather Have to Do With Anything?

While you are in the comfort of your living room enjoying the benefits of climate control until you eventually crawl into a snuggly bed, your car is outside enduring dropping temperatures. While it’s true that your car can’t really feel the cold, it’s what happens to the oil inside which causes you problems. Low quality or conventional oil is susceptible to cold temperatures. This means that, as the temperatures drop, conventional oil starts to thicken and retract from the tiny spaces it once lubricated. Of course, as it retracts, it takes its coating with it, leaving your engine parts vulnerable.

Uh-Oh

Un-oh, indeed! Of course, you can gather that the next step in this example is you getting into your car in the morning, turning the key, and your engine parts being forced to grind up against each other until the oil warms up and starts to thin out and provide protection once more. If you have ever heard that you have to let your car ‘warm up’, it actually refers to the oil inside.

A Synthetic Oil Change in Mission, TX Help

A synthetic oil change in Mission, TX provides your engine with a high-quality layer of protection which has been purpose designed to maintain its consistency, even during cold weather. This means that your engine is protected overnight and as soon as you turn the key each morning. No more need to let the car warm up. To find out which is the best product for your synthetic oil change, speak with Ed Welliver at (956) 458-9399. Alternatively, check out the online store which as further information about all of the products available.