R850R oil recomendations

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R850R oil recomendations

Postby pc-uk007 » Mon Oct 31, 2016 8:21 pm

Hi all, Help and advice please I will need to change oils on bike before winter sets in can anyone tell me what grade oil to use for UK market, thanks in advance.

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Re: R850R oil recomendations

Postby slparry » Mon Oct 31, 2016 10:56 pm

pc-uk007 wrote:Hi all, Help and advice please I will need to change oils on bike before winter sets in can anyone tell me what grade oil to use for UK market, thanks in advance.


http://www.motorcycleinfo.co.uk/resourc ... POSTER.pdf

They've moved from Castrol as the supplier now, but obviously the recommendations are still valid. For the older boxers they recommended ActEvo 20w50 mineral oil. I believe ActEvo is no longer available but any modern good quality 10w50 or 20w50 that exceeds SG rating will be ok.

Don't however be tempted by Halfords classic 20w50 it's for ancient old crap british Leyland cars and the ilk :)
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Postby f90x » Mon Oct 31, 2016 11:01 pm

Like steve says. A good quality mineral 20/50. Harley Davidson is good.

Here's the last big thread on it. Happy reading.

http://www.boxertrix.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... hlight=oil
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Postby slparry » Mon Oct 31, 2016 11:11 pm

As an extra thing, whilst the oil preference may change, for me I'd not consider putting any other filter than OEM on purely because there's so many fakes out there and the potential for damage is huge compared to the cost
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Re: R850R oil recomendations

Postby pc-uk007 » Tue Nov 01, 2016 7:55 am

slparry wrote:
pc-uk007 wrote:Hi all, Help and advice please I will need to change oils on bike before winter sets in can anyone tell me what grade oil to use for UK market, thanks in advance.


http://www.motorcycleinfo.co.uk/resourc ... POSTER.pdf

They've moved from Castrol as the supplier now, but obviously the recommendations are still valid. For the older boxers they recommended ActEvo 20w50 mineral oil. I believe ActEvo is no longer available but any modern good quality 10w50 or 20w50 that exceeds SG rating will be ok.

Don't however be tempted by Halfords classic 20w50 it's for ancient old crap british Leyland cars and the ilk :)


Thanks for that I had seen GTX 20w 50 recommended for a 850 boxer engine but I needed to double check it before oil and filter change, I am tempted in buying a HiFlo oil filter rather than a genuine filter, for the transmissions I found that some use 75w90 gl5 oil in winter and 90 sae gl5 summer ??
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Postby pc-uk007 » Tue Nov 01, 2016 7:58 am

f90x wrote:Like steve says. A good quality mineral 20/50. Harley Davidson is good.

Here's the last big thread on it. Happy reading.

http://www.boxertrix.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... hlight=oil


Thanks for link :)

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Postby pc-uk007 » Tue Nov 01, 2016 8:14 am

slparry wrote:As an extra thing, whilst the oil preference may change, for me I'd not consider putting any other filter than OEM on purely because there's so many fakes out there and the potential for damage is huge compared to the cost


Thanks Steve never gave that a thought!! you are so right.

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Postby dark_knight87 » Tue Nov 01, 2016 1:29 pm

ActEvo is now Power 1 'Power Release'!

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-89614-castr ... e-oil.aspx

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It started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle and the less said about the end the better, but apart from that it was excellent.

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Postby pc-uk007 » Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:16 pm

dark_knight87 wrote:ActEvo is now Power 1 'Power Release'!

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-89614-castr ... e-oil.aspx

Regards,
Russ.

Thanks Russ so many to choose from, I will try a Mineral 20w50 engine oil.


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