5 things to know about new age engine oil

Everyone knows that the engine oil is the bloodline of a vehicle. The evolution of engine oil has taken several leaps through the decades and here we list five important things to know about the new age engine oil.

• Modern day engine oils last longer than their predecessors. Thanks to several years of research and development, the engine oils have become better at doing their duty over a longer period of time. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t change your engine oil, it’s just that the intervals between oil change have increased.
• Synthetic oils have low overall viscosity and reduced friction for improved engine efficiency and fuel economy. This is possible because of their superior flow properties and lower oil temperatures. Thanks to their high viscosity index, synthetic oils perform better in extreme temperatures and they do not become too thick when cold or too thin when hot.
• Semi-synthetic oils are blends of mineral oil and 30% or less of synthetic oil. Designed to offer most of the benefits of synthetic oil at lesser price, the semi-synthetic oils offer extended lubricant life and improved viscosity indexes. They also provide better engine defence at higher temperatures and heavy loads over normal mineral oils and they are also not as subject to evaporation as the typical mineral oil.
• Modern day engine oils already come added with necessary additives. So next time someone tells you to add additives, un-friend them. Because stories like additives reduce oil consumption or enhance engine protection of engine oil is fiction.
• Not just the oil, even the technologies with which they are produced too have advanced. Shell recently introduced a new revolutionary technology call the Shell PurePlus Technology, which converts natural gas into crystal-clear base oil with virtually none of the impurities found in crude oil. The PurePlus technology uses a new process that results in clear base oil that has enhanced viscosity, friction and volatility performance compared to traditional base oils.