How many times have you been annoyed by the fact that you need to check your oil every couple of weeks? You’re all dressed up for an important event when you stop to fill up your gas tank and realize it’s been a while since you checked the oil. So then you lift the hood and pull out the dipstick, only to get oil all over your fingers and your dressy tan pants. The night is ruined.
But the engineers at Mercedes-Benz are working to avoid such inconveniences in the future. With the automaker’s new oil monitoring system, you can see exactly what’s going on with your oil from a dashboard indicator. In addition to the oil level, the system will also detect the quality to let you know precisely when you need to get an oil change. So far, the system has extended oil change intervals by about 25 percent because drivers know exactly when the quality has deteriorated to the point of needing this service.
This monitoring system will be especially useful for those who own fleets of vehicles for their businesses. Knowing the best time to change the oil reduces downtime for the workers and the vehicles with fewer oil changes.
This new oil monitoring system should be available in vehicles at your local Mercedes-Benz dealer pretty soon. The automaker will likely offer it in the S-Class models first and then incorporate it into the full line of MB vehicles after that.
