+- Fazer Owners Club - Unofficial (https://foc-u.co.uk/mybb)
+-- Forum: Bikes, Hints'n'Tips (https://foc-u.co.uk/mybb/forumdisplay.php?fid=66)
+--- Forum: FZS600 Fazer (https://foc-u.co.uk/mybb/forumdisplay.php?fid=78)
+--- Thread: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? (/showthread.php?tid=61265)
Pages:
1
2
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - His Dudeness - 28-12-12
(28-12-12, 12:43 PM)darrsi link Wrote: Hands up anyone who's had engine failure or a shortened engine life (not sure how you'd know?) after using/changing cheaper oil at regular intervals?
Anyone.......? :rolleyes
even if you had two identical bikes with one of them running a cheaper brand oil than the other you'd never get an accurate comparison there's just too many variables.
personally i'm not that worried about the brand of oil i use but i'll always use a bike specific oil. the main reason being that a bikes engine does twice the rpm of a car engine and i want to have the reassurance that the oil i'm using has been designed and tested for that application. sure at full wack a fazer engine would be rotating at 250 times a second! every time you count 1 the valves have opened 250 times, the pistons have gone up and down 250 times etc etc and the only thing stopping the whole thing eating itself is the oil, it's mad stuff when you think about it. for the sake of saving 10-15 quid i'll go for the bike specific oil every time
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - Jacko - 28-12-12
my bike's 14 years old and any oil out there is of higher spec than it
says in the book.
I just avoid the friction reducers which means using cheaper stuff. (Wilkos)
70,000 miles and doing ok.
I'd say put in what makes you happy. Bit like petrol, regular or supa dupa, you choose.
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - phillywilly - 28-12-12
(23-12-12, 10:45 AM)JZS 600 link Wrote: Oh no, the oil question! :'(
(This one will run for a while but just use any 10W 40 semi synthetic)
enough said
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - Jc72 - 07-01-13
My bro had an rgv250 for 3years and did way over the mileage expected for those fragile engines to do, he used it on track days and all year round, and never had to rebuild it, my point being that he used to use silkolene oil can't remember which one but it was the most expensive oil you could get, he was at the time some sort of chemical engineer for the military, don't know any more cos its classified, but he knows about molecules and that kind of stuff, anyway he sold his bike to my neighbour, told him to use the silkolene oil, the reply was not paying that cheap stuff will do the same, 300 miles later and it was being rebuilt! After that said neighbour used silkolene and did 13000 miles on that bike before some tow rag nicked it and it was going great, I know it's 2 stroke oil but I personally will always get the best that I can for car or bike.
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - wezdavo - 07-01-13
I use Motul 10w 40 semi synth..
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - JZS 600 - 07-01-13
I just changed mine yesterday, I used HG 10w 40 semi synth.
I think this is the same as Motul, just £10 cheaper!
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - spider - 08-01-13
are we talking about oil. i change mine every 1,000 miles
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - Fazerider - 08-01-13
Hein Gericke are having a 30% off day today.... though I didn't look at their oil when in there as I have a two-year stockpile from when they were flogging it off cheap last June. The on-line store doesn't list 4 litre cans of their own brand 10W-40, but they might have some in retail outlets if you're near one of those that didn't get culled last year.
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - darrsi - 08-01-13
(08-01-13, 02:40 PM)spider link Wrote: are we talking about oil. i change mine every 1,000 milesThat's an expensive bad habit you have there??? :eek
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - JZS 600 - 08-01-13
Told you this would run and run :lol
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - ade the blade - 09-01-13
mazola or spry ( with the chip crispies filtered out ) :lol
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - red98 - 09-01-13
(09-01-13, 05:19 PM)ade the blade link Wrote: mazola or spry ( with the chip crispies filtered out ) :lol
thats more like it :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
halfords bike oil changed every year at mot time
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - slimwilly - 09-01-13
When i change my oil , i take out the filler cap, yeh, then how do i tip the bike up to empty it? :rolleyes
Re: Whats the reccomended oil / what oil do you use? - JZS 600 - 09-01-13
Prolonged wheelie,,,,,,