Service intervals - what's yours?

[Karl@Alpha]

Use a good oil, 10,000ks should be more than enough unless your racing.
At $140 for 4l of oil I'm gunna milk every last bit out of it!
And the book says 10,000k too...
I thought all bikes where 10,000+ now?
Have heard of 15 on some and some cars are doing huge distances between services.

[Magua]

Use a good oil, 10,000ks should be more than enough unless your racing.
At $140 for 4l of oil I'm gunna milk every last bit out of it!
And the book says 10,000k too...
I thought all bikes where 10,000+ now?
Have heard of 15 on some and some cars are doing huge distances between services.

$140 for 4L :0
Even with my oil changes being three times as frequent, I spend less on oil than you (good ol' mineral oil)

[Karl@Alpha]

$140 for 4L :0
Even with my oil changes being three times as frequent, I spend less on oil than you (good ol' mineral oil)

Yea but I like full synthetic oil, and its good oil!

[Owl]

Yea but I like full synthetic oil, and its good oil!

May I ask what oil?

[johan]

Yea but I like full synthetic oil, and its good oil!

How do you tell a good oil from a bad oil?

[AllanB]

I was reading somewhere this week (on KB? In a thread about Ducati service??) that the 6000km Japanese service interval thing was bogus, and done for some legal reason related to warranties. It's certainly not related to the longevity of the oil or engine parts.

Probably me!

My Hornet 900 owners books states 12,000 km intervals for oil/filter - the dealer says bring it in every 6,000. I checked around the world and 12k appears standard Honda oil changes on this model. I asked the dealer and he said to meet your warranty requirements, yes 12k as stated in the book is correct. But 6k changes are better.......

I personally would, and do change at least the oil at 6k, regardless as fresh blood is relatively cheap.

[P38]

$350 is steep for a Boulevard.

My last warrenty service for my Boulevard cost $219 but the bastards did loose my valve caps and for some unkown reason thought I wouldn't spot the black plastic replacements they chucked on.

Now it,s out of warrenty the last service cost me a little over $100 for the Oil and a filter, $20 for a few beers and a very enjoyable afternoon fucking around in the garage sucking on some cold ones tinkering with my bike with no loss of any valve caps.

I used a Suzuki filter and 3.5 liters of Fuchs Silkolene Comp4 15w/50 oil.

After 3000kms it seems to be performing pretty good for me too.

Planning on buying more Beers, Oil and a Filter at 5000kms for another change.

A regular supply of good oil wil repay itself in engine longivity for sure

[Karl@Alpha]

May I ask what oil?

Amsoil, 10w40 Advanced motorcycle oil.
I've been useing it in the Triumph since new and Jax's M900 Ducati has had it for the last 60,000+ ks.
My father-in-law is a huge fan of it, run it in everything he has had for the last 20 years or so.
Got lots and lots of info on it if your realy bored and want to know more...
Other than those two everything else we have (8 bikes and a car) has Motul.

[Karl@Alpha]

How do you tell a good oil from a bad oil?

Has a halo...