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This Winter, Don’t Get Your Car Stuck Before It Gets Started
Notes From The Road
Auto Safety Systems and the Law
By Mac Demere/autoMedia.com
What’s Required and What Soon Will Be -
New-car brochures and vehicle reviews regularly tout facts and features about new models, and high-tech, advanced safety systems such as dual front airbags and a tire-pressure monitoring system (TPMS). That’s the same as saying it meets current emissions standards: If the vehicle didn’t have dual front airbags and a tire-pressure monitoring system, it couldn’t be offered for sale. Of course, the promotional information often mentions that its star meets current emissions standards, too.
Vehicles' vital fluids normally perform two important functions: lubricating and cleaning. As the fluid circulates through the parts, it gathers the dirt and metal shavings that can accumulate over time. If you're lucky, this debris will settle on the bottom of the pan or housing and not circulate through the system.
We receive many questions about zinc levels in today's motor oils from the owners of racing or high-performance vehicles. See our answer to this question in our regular feature, Ask Mobil, and a table for comparing the phosphorous levels in Mobil 1.
Nine volunteers from the Drive Around the World Expedition began a 16-month intercontinental journey on November 1, 2003, to raise funds to help cure Parkinson’s disease. The LONGITUDE expedition traveled 28,000 miles, almost two-thirds of its 41,000-mile journey, before changing the engine oil. Their Land Rovers were using Mobil 1. Read more ...
