Hydrocracked oils
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What are hydrocracked engine oils, how do they differ from mineral and synthetic ones, and does a car owner even need to know any of this? Sometimes I get the impression that the scary-sounding word "hydrocracking" was cooked up by some brilliant marketer purely to carve up the market.
Because if you dig a little deeper into the production technology behind those same automotive oils, you can unearth even more "scary" and hard-to-grasp terms.
So let's try to figure out whether it really matters to a car owner — hydrocracked oil or something else...