Hydrocracked oils

Section Hydrocracked oils, article 6 of 693 words, 1 minute

In this section: 6 articles
  1. Can hydrocracked oils be used?
  2. How to tell hydrocracked oil apart
  3. What is hydrocracking?
  4. A bit more history of the oil industry
  5. Hydrocracked engine oils: good or bad?
  6. Hydrocracked oils

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...

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