3 ways to ensure you are using your Engine Lubricant Properly

Using the right lubricants effectively helps take your fleet and equipment operations from good to great. While there is no one-solution-fits-all lubricant for your equipment, there are many lubricant solutions out there to help you enhance and extend the life of each individual engine or piece of equipment.

When searching for the right lubricants, keep in mind the functions and type of environment you have for each piece of your equipment. This way, you ensure that you’re getting the proper lubricant solutions for your business.

When you use lubricants that are either poorly matched with your equipment or applied haphazardly, you risk contamination. This contamination often leads to more severe problems for your fleet, including faulty engine performance and degraded oil quality.

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Total Lubricants achieve Jaguar Land Rover approvals

TOTAL Lubricants are pleased to announce that they have now obtained Full Approval from Jaguar Land Rover on three of their leading lubricants. These new approvals testify that TOTAL lubricants are able to satisfy even the most stringent requirements of the luxury car brands and their engines. The products which so far have obtained the full approvals from Jaguar Land Rover are:

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Base Oil, The genesis of Lubricant.

A lubricant exists for 70%-90% out of base oil. As a result, the choice of base oil is crucial for the quality of your lubricant.
There are three types of Base Oils: mineral base oils, semi-synthetic base oils and synthetic base oils. Mineral oils are refined from crude oil or used oils, synthetic oils are completely chemically built and semi-synthetic oils are a mixture of mineral and synthetic base oils.
Due to the technological evolution in engine design over the last 10 to 15 years, we have witnessed a strong evolution towards semi-synthetic and synthetic oils. In the past, you could use a mineral oil for basically every type of engine. But the newest engine designs no longer support this type of oil. Before explaining the need for more synthetic oils, let’s have a look at the characteristics and the purpose of base oils.

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Roles of Additives in Lubricants

A lubricant consists of two main components: base oil and additives. These last ones are responsible for 10% to 30% of the composition of a lubricant. The additives are a combination of several chemical components that are blended into the base oil to enhance its stability and to add specific performance features. Additives contain different elements that will extend the life of the lubricant and as a result, the life of the engine.

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Lubes 101

A lubricant is a mixture – a blend – of two key components of oil: Base Oil and Additives.

Base Oil
A lubricant exists for 70%-90% out of base oil. It’s is the foundation of a lubricant. There are three types of base oil:

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