oil change

08-05-2012, 06:36 PM

i've been changing my engine oil & filter every 3000 miles, how often do you chaps with similar bikes change yours?

gary tompkins · 08-05-2012, 06:38 PM

Pretty much the same give or take a few hundred miles

Headhunter · 09-05-2012, 06:28 AM

Likewise with Shell Advance Ultra 4 15w-50.

Saint aka ML · 09-05-2012, 11:21 AM

Yyyyy 6-7k or every year.

09-05-2012, 01:45 PM

thanks for the replys, the oil always looks fairly clean so wasnt sure if i was wasting my money with such a short interval

Headhunter · 09-05-2012, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Saint aka ML

Yyyyy 6-7k or every year.

For me it's because I ride in extremely warm temperatures, so like to change it as regularly as possible - obviously without taking the p*ss.

Appreciate oil is designed to work in harsh environments (engine / outside temperature etc) but TBH, I don't mind spending 40/50 every quarter.

Nickj · 09-05-2012, 05:48 PM

Oil at 3 and filter at 6K, these are 'hot' miles so the oil lasts quite well. The oil is bog forecourt 10:40, the engines done about 42K since I got it and is quite happy on it so no plans to buy ultra specced stuff that meets pretty much the same standards.

07-07-2012, 06:55 PM

Every 3000 miles on semi synthetic, every 1000 miles on mineral, or once a year if I,m not using it much. The oil change interval on my Peugeot is every 20,000 miles, on what they call long life oil, can you imagine what the oil would be like after that kinda mileage. I change that every 5000.

07-07-2012, 08:01 PM

Dookbob, my Golf GT TDI was on that long life oil service and was almost solely the cause of wrecking my variable vane turbo about 6 weeks ago, VW Independant says it was a gimic for the reps who do mega milage years ago, thats where you get benefit as the oil works as it was designed to under those conditions, normal driving doesn't allow the oil to work as it should and so it gets contaminated easily and then cloggs up the oil lines etc in the turbo. Cost me £600. Its now on a yearly/10k service interval.

07-07-2012, 08:03 PM

I'd change mine probably 3-4k, same with the oil filter. £25 for oil and £11 for the filter isn't gonna break the bank and its nice to know there's fresh oil flowing round your engine. I know oil can go much longer but where's the harm in changing early?

08-05-2012, 06:36 PM	#1
jamiedan2009 Guest Posts: n/a	oil change i've been changing my engine oil & filter every 3000 miles, how often do you chaps with similar bikes change yours?

08-05-2012, 06:38 PM	#2
gary tompkins 1/2 man - 1/2 pogo-stick Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Dartford, Kent Bike: M900ie Posts: 7,241	Pretty much the same give or take a few hundred miles __________________ GT Fully paid up member of the S.A.S. (Scottoiler Appreciation Society) 27,000 miles on original chain - and still going strong!

09-05-2012, 06:28 AM	#3
Headhunter THFC Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: London Bike: M620ie Posts: 829	Likewise with Shell Advance Ultra 4 15w-50. __________________ Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Sir Winston Churchill

09-05-2012, 11:21 AM	#4
Saint aka ML Junior ah to be young Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: London Bike: Multiple Monsters Posts: 2,058	Yyyyy 6-7k or every year. __________________ "I am Lucazade"

09-05-2012, 05:48 PM	#7
Nickj Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Forest Of Dean Bike: S2r Posts: 3,189	Oil at 3 and filter at 6K, these are 'hot' miles so the oil lasts quite well. The oil is bog forecourt 10:40, the engines done about 42K since I got it and is quite happy on it so no plans to buy ultra specced stuff that meets pretty much the same standards. __________________ "The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body." Song of the sausage creature

09-05-2012, 01:45 PM	#5
jamiedan2009 Guest Posts: n/a	thanks for the replys, the oil always looks fairly clean so wasnt sure if i was wasting my money with such a short interval

07-07-2012, 06:55 PM	#8
Dookbob Guest Posts: n/a	Every 3000 miles on semi synthetic, every 1000 miles on mineral, or once a year if I,m not using it much. The oil change interval on my Peugeot is every 20,000 miles, on what they call long life oil, can you imagine what the oil would be like after that kinda mileage. I change that every 5000.

07-07-2012, 08:01 PM	#9
urbanfireblade Guest Posts: n/a	Dookbob, my Golf GT TDI was on that long life oil service and was almost solely the cause of wrecking my variable vane turbo about 6 weeks ago, VW Independant says it was a gimic for the reps who do mega milage years ago, thats where you get benefit as the oil works as it was designed to under those conditions, normal driving doesn't allow the oil to work as it should and so it gets contaminated easily and then cloggs up the oil lines etc in the turbo. Cost me £600. Its now on a yearly/10k service interval.

07-07-2012, 08:03 PM	#10
urbanfireblade Guest Posts: n/a	I'd change mine probably 3-4k, same with the oil filter. £25 for oil and £11 for the filter isn't gonna break the bank and its nice to know there's fresh oil flowing round your engine. I know oil can go much longer but where's the harm in changing early?