Counterfeit Kunlun Lubricants Appear Frequently, Making Authenticity Checks Vital

Every time a holiday approaches, lubricant sales hit a peak, and some lawbreakers target that "window" to turn out large quantities of counterfeit and shoddy branded lubricants and push them onto the market. This not only disrupts market order but also damages car engines and components, so consumers risk encountering fakes when buying well-known brands. According to staff at Kunlun Lubricant's Quick Oil Change centers, since the snow and ice disaster of 2008, car owners have become more conscious of vehicle maintenance. Checking and replacing lubricant and antifreeze in particular have become hot topics in car care today, and lubricant sales have therefore enjoyed a small peak. At the same time, counterfeiters and sellers of fakes have seized this "opportunity" in the market: they reprocess recovered waste oil or blend it with genuine oil to turn out large volumes of counterfeit branded lubricants for sale. Some of these fakes come from privately run oil plants, and some are even produced in residential compounds on the urban-rural fringe.
Recently, the quality inspection bureau of Tangshan, Tianjin seized 596 drums of automotive antifreeze blended from tap water, colorant and antifreeze concentrate. Law enforcement officers in Shanghai also recently shut down a counterfeit branded lubricant processing plant near Yangyuan Town; the brands it faked ran the full range from Shell and Mobil internationally to Kunlun and Changcheng domestically, and a single "brand" was supplied in batches of up to several dozen tons at a time.
Refusing fakes: there are ways to tell
Faced with fakes running rampant, many consumers feel at a loss. On one hand, cars need high-quality lubricants for maintenance; on the other, the better known a brand is, the more easily it is copied. So how should consumers identify genuine lubricant? Staff in Kunlun Lubricant's marketing department explain that there are three main ways to verify a lubricant:
1. Look at the packaging. The packaging of genuine lubricant is produced by designated manufacturers, with uniform appearance, superb workmanship and clearly printed bottles, whereas packaging made by counterfeit plants is usually rough, with blurry printing on the bottle and even incorrect manufacturer information. Consumers can identify fakes by comparing the packaging of genuine and counterfeit products.
2. Look at the oil itself. Genuine oil is light-colored and transparent, free of impurities, suspended matter and sediment, with a mild odor and good flow when the container is swirled. Fake oil may be darker in color, or contain impurities and sediment, or have a strong, pungent odor, flow poorly when swirled, or feel stringy when rubbed between the fingers.
3. Today most well-known lubricant brands carry anti-counterfeiting marks; Kunlun's exclusive four-fold anti-counterfeiting protection, for example, resists fakes to the greatest extent possible. Furthermore, if lawbreakers recover used genuine containers and fill them with fake oil, making it hard to tell simply from appearance, consumers should contact the manufacturer promptly and send the oil to the relevant testing department for verification.