£2.74 (5 litres) oil!

[dirtydog]

20/50 mineral blend from Wilko!

So, would you use this in your new bike?

 

[snoopy]

No, it's not synthetic!

 

[Egon]

What do you use?
5 w 40 synthetic?

 

[MMC]

What's a new bike? Is it one of those things you have to run in yourself? Nah - get someone else to do it for you I reckon.

I'd use it in my old beast - and have done! Absolutely fine.

 

[cookie]

what's Wilko?

 

[dirtydog]

What do you use?
5 w 40 synthetic?

No, I use a semi 10/40. Personally, I feel fully synth in a tractor is a waste of money. I used it in my Gixxer 750 naturally!

 

[Le singe]

10/40? Where do you live where the temperature never goes above 15°C?

 

[Bezzler]

No, it's not synthetic!

Vines inform me that BMW changed the specs for 1150's to 20/50 mineral at xmass this year.

 

[Bezzler]

No, I use a semi 10/40. Personally, I feel fully synth in a tractor is a waste of money. I used it in my Gixxer 750 naturally!

so your riding a Harley then

 

[dirtydog]

so your riding a Harley then

So, now you're going to tell the beemer engine has all the refined feeling of a Jap flat four.......it's a bloody 70 year old tractor lump!

A Harley? Now that is a compliment!

10/40? Where do you live where the temperature never goes above 15°C?

I think you'll find that the range is -20 to +20

 

[Le singe]

Sorry! Just quoting the advice in the BMW handbook where it states that above 15°C, it is recommended that a 15w/50 is used.
Still, what do they know?

 

[Paul Wakefield]

Vines inform me that BMW changed the specs for 1150's to 20/50 mineral at xmass this year.

Also done the same for the 1200s according to NOG.

Paul

 

[Egon]

So what is the verdict for the best oil for an 1150 for UK use?

 

[cookie]

So what is the verdict for the best oil for an 1150 for UK use?

are you sure we've not done this before?

 

[Bigtwin]

are you sure we've not done this before?

Yeah - but we never decided if it was sunflower or groundnut.

 

[dirtydog]

Yeah - but we never decided if it was sunflower or groundnut.

lol, I'm going for Olive this time round!

Seriously, I'll probably go for a semi 20/50 this time, Morrison's do one at good money. I think it's called 'heavy duty twin', designed for Harley's if I remember correctly. Should make the thing a wee bit quieter!

Although the Wilko brand is still 'calling' at £2.74, and Clarke's did suggest a mineral would be perfectly suitable

 

[ELIMINATOR]

Bought some Granville 15-50 mineral oil, now decided that perhaps it might be crap! It is API SL/CF, the trouble is the more I read about oil the more phobias I develop. 15-50 seems to be the way to go, as 10-40 only appears to be useable from minus 20c to plus 20c. Ride it in the late 30s and the engine sounded like a bag of nuts & bolts. I'm not putting bike specific oil in it.
2003 1150

 

[Mzokk]

10/40? Where do you live where the temperature never goes above 15°C?

Belfast.....last time it was warmer than that was summer 1967

To be slightly more helpful Halfords are doing an own brand 5w 50 competition oil at the mo usually £30 odd for 5 ltrs now 21 quid. Good for a wide range synth.

 

[(RIP) Geriatric Germ]

lol, I'm going for Seriously,

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