The main cause of most of the automobile or any other engine failures is oil contamination. You might have a question that how would engine oil gets contaminated? There are different reasons behind the contamination of engine oil, it could be through internal or external sources. The internal sources are wear and tear of the components and the external sources could be from the outer world and the major one is dirty engine oil. The contaminated engine oil blocks the passage or supply of the oil to other components and the engine stops working.
Oil is the lifeblood of your automotive engine and when the oil circulates through the engine, it picks up contaminants which could be dust or dirt or any other thing. That dust would slowly damage your engine and bring the engine to its death. If you don't want the engine to stop working, then what you could do is employ filtration products like oil filters. An oil filter would separate the contaminants in the engine oil and stores the contaminants in a container attached to the engine. It protects the engine oil from getting contaminated.
These filters are of different types which might vary on their filtration capacity and material of which they are made up of. Some filters are made up of plastic, while some are made up of paper or any other material. The main types of filters are centrifugal, sedimentation, cartridge, spin-on, magnetic and high efficiency (HE). Each type of filter functions differently, however, the main purpose of each type of filter is to clean the engine or the component where it is employed. Please note that filters need to be changed after their filtering capacity gets exhausted. If you don't know when to change the filter, then ask the experts to increase the shelf life of your engine.
