Hydrocracked oils
What hydrocracking is, how to tell such an oil apart, and whether it's safe to use.
- Can hydrocracked oils be used? Yes, hydrocracked oils differ in their properties and chemical composition from both mineral and synthetic oils. But does the ordinary car owner actually need to care?
- How to tell hydrocracked oil apart Engine oil manufacturers, so as not to scare car owners off with complicated, unfamiliar terminology, and also taking advantage of the fact that the American Petroleum Institute recognises hydrocracked oils as synthetic, print something along the lines of "synthetic technology" on their packaging.
- What is hydrocracking? In simple terms, hydrocracking is a technology for refining, and for improving the characteristics and parameters of a mineral base to “synthetic” level…
- A bit more history of the oil industry What, essentially, is a synthetic base? Right - it's an artificially synthesised counterpart to a mineral base, but with certain parameters substantially improved…
- Hydrocracked engine oils: good or bad? Lately, car owners have increasingly been arguing over whether hydrocracked oils can be used...
- 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…