28-12-12, 01:04 PM
(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