R850R oil recomendations
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R850R oil recomendations
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.
Re: R850R oil recomendations
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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Steve Parry
Current fleet: '14 F800GS, '87 R80RS, '03 R1100S BoxerCup, '15 R1200RT LE Dynamic, '90 K1
Steve Parry
Current fleet: '14 F800GS, '87 R80RS, '03 R1100S BoxerCup, '15 R1200RT LE Dynamic, '90 K1
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
Here's the last big thread on it. Happy reading.
http://www.boxertrix.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... hlight=oil
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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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Steve Parry
Current fleet: '14 F800GS, '87 R80RS, '03 R1100S BoxerCup, '15 R1200RT LE Dynamic, '90 K1
Steve Parry
Current fleet: '14 F800GS, '87 R80RS, '03 R1100S BoxerCup, '15 R1200RT LE Dynamic, '90 K1
Re: R850R oil recomendations
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 ??
Last edited by pc-uk007 on Tue Nov 01, 2016 8:01 am, edited 1 time in total.
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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ActEvo is now Power 1 'Power Release'!
http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-89614-castr ... e-oil.aspx
Regards,
Russ.
http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-89614-castr ... e-oil.aspx
Regards,
Russ.
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.
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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