TESTING TIMES!
‘It’s like a blood test for your engine!” That’s how Matt Spurlock, the global technical manager for SGS, described oil condition monitoring to me. Using this technique provides an inexpensive but immensely useful way of peering deep into the inner workings of your engine, to discover what’s going on and, more important, what might be going wrong.
Oil condition monitoring – or oil analysis as it’s also known – isn’t a new process; it’s been around for years. But many of you might not have heard of it because its use has traditionally been restricted to the industrial, heavy plant and large commercial vehicle fleet market sectors. More recently, though, specialist service providers like SGS ) have brought effective
