which grade oil do i use?

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Re: which grade oil do i use?

Post by Spike16 » Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:26 pm

I use catrol 10/40 racing fully synth cos it the best oil halfords sell and I get it dirt cheep :grin:

I agree my bike went alot better after the oil and filter change, especially finding neutral when hot, usually takes a couple of attempts and a bit of rev;'s but for a month after the change it was like a normal bike lol

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Re: which grade oil do i use?

Post by Sligeach » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:19 pm

Spike16 wrote:I use catrol 10/40 racing fully synth cos it the best oil halfords sell
as a matter of interest has anyone got any opinions on how you can quantify the quality of oil?
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Re: which grade oil do i use?

Post by Speedy » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:11 pm

SligeA¡ch wrote:
Spike16 wrote:I use catrol 10/40 racing fully synth cos it the best oil halfords sell
as a matter of interest has anyone got any opinions on how you can quantify the quality of oil?
For me it depends how much I value my bikes; the Bandit gets the cheaper stuff I can get, whilst the RVF gets the more expensive oil like Castrol; I stick to semi-synthetic 10w40 though!
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Re: which grade oil do i use?

Post by Neosophist » Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:16 pm

SligeA¡ch wrote:
Spike16 wrote:I use catrol 10/40 racing fully synth cos it the best oil halfords sell
as a matter of interest has anyone got any opinions on how you can quantify the quality of oil?
It's all the same :P

Well its not but I wouldn't bother with anything other than cheap semi-synth in my VFR, it far exceeds the specs of the 80's oil :P

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Re: which grade oil do i use?

Post by Cammo » Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:17 am

SligeA¡ch wrote:
as a matter of interest has anyone got any opinions on how you can quantify the quality of oil?
Price?? :grin: (thats what they want us to believe!)

I really don't think quality is too important, frequent oil changes are most important.

I know of peopl that swear by using car oil in their bikes for what its worth.

I never use full synthetic in the nc's, too much risk of the clutch playing up.
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