Yesterday my car stalled as I alighted from the garage. Suddenly the oil indicator on my dashboard lit up and then the engine went dead. I didn't want to risk starting up again and so i called my friend who goes by the monikor Magic Mike to ask about why my noble stead has buckled.
By the way Magic Mike was my high school batch mate, so thats why I have is number. He's kind of a legendary mechanic in the field of automotive diagnostics. He worked in Dubai previously servicing supercars and then worked for one of the top three tycoons in the country as a personal mechanic. Now he's a freelancer but also have his own shop. But mostly he goes around the country rescuing cars that won't still function despite being looked over by lots of other mechanics.
So when Magic Mike came to my house, he immediately knew that I just need a change of oil upon seeing the condition of the flow of oil from my car's dip stick.
We went to a Petron gasoline station nearby to buy some engine oils, an oil filter, and an engine flusher.
What surprised me was he told me to buy another set of engine oil as we were about leave. He was pointing me to buy the engine oil specifically made for diesel engines. I said, "Are you sure? Cause my car is the gasoline variant." He said, "Yeah, buy it."
As puzzled as I am, I deferred to his expert judgment and bought the required amount of diesel engine oils.
First he poured the engine flusher fluid to the engine together with a liter of diesel oil (the red one). He started the car and the oil indicator light on the dashboard was gone instantly.
After 5 minutes, he drained every last drop of oil from the engine. What came out was a sludge. I was actually really going to have a change oil this week scheduled for the 90k PMS but somehow the engine oil got sludgy a day ahead.
That's why also I was noticing lately that the power of the car especially going uphill was sluggishly weaker. But at that point the indicator light was not lighting up, so my first thought was that engine performance was slowing down naturally due to my car being six years old.
Mike told me that sludging is a common occurrence for those using fully synthetic engine oils. What happened really was that because the engine oil was becoming a sludge inside the engine, the oil, instead of making sure the pistons were lubricated as they pump, the sludge was making it stickier thereby creating more friction inside.
After the flusher and the old engine oil was fully drained, he put the diesel engine oil as the new engine oil. This new batch of engine oil is still for flushing purposes just to make sure to have all sediments settle on the bottom. After three days he's gonna come back to put the fully synthetic engine oil.
The tip he gave was that the ordinary oil, the unsynthetic one, is actually better because they don't form a sludge. They'd still be in oil form even if you miss 1000 kilometers off the change oil schedule; however it will just be more frequent to really keep changing oil every 5k kilometers or every six months.
Feeling still puzzled about putting in diesel.engine oil on a non-diesel engine I asked again if it's really okay to drive the car around. He said yes don't worry about it.
To make the story short the car is running again. Then I noticed my car kind of like have hidden reserves of engine power now. The car felt lighter to drive. He then told me that that's also what he does for his personal car.
Then I realized this is just temporary because in three days the diesel engine is gonna be replaced with a fully synthetic engine oil. He told.actually that it can really be used not only for flushing but for the real deal engine oil change. It was just because I bought the fully synthetic oil already before he remembered to ask me to buy the diesel engine oil.
The power is really no joke. My wife is just saying I feel lighter of course because the friction is much lesser now with the sludge drained away. But the thing is I have never felt this lightness in driving even when the car was new.
So I gave him feedback that I feel the rush of power like never before. He said that diesel engine oils lubricate better and designed for larger engines. However the caveat is really to change after every six months because the lubrication power will diminish by then.
I read up on engine oil topics because of this experience but what I see is that synthetic oils are supposed to be a better engine temperature stabilizer and is a better protector from corrosion. Diesel oils have denser viscosity and is better in terms of engine lubrication. But so far based on experience and feel of the car I am liking the diesel engine oil.
Before heading off, he told me that this is a "forbidden trchnique." If you go to places who perform oil change services, they'd never advise it because fully synthetics are, of course, much expensive.
Hope you learned something. You can contact Magic Mike if you have a car.you don't want seeing idle and yet seemed irreparable at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100016396232578&mibextid=ZbWKwL
God bless and happy buzzing 🐝