07-04-2014, 01:43 PM
I swore I would never comment again in an oil thread but here I am again. 
I am only sharing what I do. I have been on both sides of the fence on synthetic oils. I ran Mobile 1 15w50 in my Sportster from day one and this was back in the day when the HD stealerships would tell you it was going to ruin the engine because at that time they did not have their own branded synthetic oil for sale. What a load of crap.
Anyway, fast forward to now and I am running Shell Rotella 15w40 in my 750 and change it and the filter about every 2500-3000 miles. That may be overkill I dont know. Honda calls for 4K changes. I know it does not use a drop of oil in that time frame so far. I wont buy Honda oil filters either. I use Purolator PL14612 filters which are probably at least as good if not better than the Honda filters and they are 7 bucks a piece which I think is still high. I am a cheapskate and a tight wad and wont be ripped off at a dealership.
One thing that has never been mentioned in an oil thread is the new oil life monitors in cars these days. They are very sophisticated and count engine revolutions, time, temperature and a whole host of other parameters and determine the oil change intervals. Oil analysis have show them to be accurate. I wonder if this will ever make it to motorcycles?
No doubt at least to me that synthetic is better but I have always wondered if I ever got the benefit of it being so much better and what it cost me. Oil is so much better now that it was 15 years ago its not funny. In the end, I dont thing it matters that much what you run as long as you change it every now and then with a name brand oil of any kind.
I am only sharing what I do. I have been on both sides of the fence on synthetic oils. I ran Mobile 1 15w50 in my Sportster from day one and this was back in the day when the HD stealerships would tell you it was going to ruin the engine because at that time they did not have their own branded synthetic oil for sale. What a load of crap. Anyway, fast forward to now and I am running Shell Rotella 15w40 in my 750 and change it and the filter about every 2500-3000 miles. That may be overkill I dont know. Honda calls for 4K changes. I know it does not use a drop of oil in that time frame so far. I wont buy Honda oil filters either. I use Purolator PL14612 filters which are probably at least as good if not better than the Honda filters and they are 7 bucks a piece which I think is still high. I am a cheapskate and a tight wad and wont be ripped off at a dealership.
One thing that has never been mentioned in an oil thread is the new oil life monitors in cars these days. They are very sophisticated and count engine revolutions, time, temperature and a whole host of other parameters and determine the oil change intervals. Oil analysis have show them to be accurate. I wonder if this will ever make it to motorcycles?
No doubt at least to me that synthetic is better but I have always wondered if I ever got the benefit of it being so much better and what it cost me. Oil is so much better now that it was 15 years ago its not funny. In the end, I dont thing it matters that much what you run as long as you change it every now and then with a name brand oil of any kind.