Oil Change thougths
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To be fair it wasn't a life time chain it was a maintenance free chain later changed to a reduced maintenance chain.
Sprockets still wore, which still caused the chain to require adjustment and of course the chain itself would eventually wear, which caused controversy and BMW had to back track it's claims.
The idea of not having to lube a chain for it's life and only adjust it as the sprockets wore is still very intriguing, just not at the current price of the chain.
Sprockets still wore, which still caused the chain to require adjustment and of course the chain itself would eventually wear, which caused controversy and BMW had to back track it's claims.
The idea of not having to lube a chain for it's life and only adjust it as the sprockets wore is still very intriguing, just not at the current price of the chain.
This reminds me of the Startrek NG episode when Jordi and Scotty from the original series are on an away mission and the obligatory catastrophe happens and Jordi is telling Scotty that according to the specifications of some vessel, it won't take that amount of pressure needed to accomplish the task needed for them to escape their peril. Scotty told him that it would because he was the one that wrote the specs and he always allowed for a big safety measure. He implied that he always exaggerated the fix so he could be the hero by fixing the impossiable.
The military doesn't use mileage, hours or time to determine when to change the oil. They send a small sample to a lab and only change it when it is out of spec. We drove many, many, many miles between oil changes.
The modern synthetic oils are far superior than plain petroleum oil and I have gone a few thousand miles more than what Greg Rice states between oil changes. I live where I can ride my bike all year long and do. Bottom line is as Kerri stated, do what your comfortable with.
The military doesn't use mileage, hours or time to determine when to change the oil. They send a small sample to a lab and only change it when it is out of spec. We drove many, many, many miles between oil changes.
The modern synthetic oils are far superior than plain petroleum oil and I have gone a few thousand miles more than what Greg Rice states between oil changes. I live where I can ride my bike all year long and do. Bottom line is as Kerri stated, do what your comfortable with.
Not wanting to see this thread die a natural death.
I've been using Mobile One almost exclusively (a short time with AmsOil when the company I was working for did the maintenance) in all my engines since it came out. I've gone well past 15,000 miles on my trucks and the one has 325k miles on it and only "uses" a quart every 10k or so.
That said, I'm using Mobil 1 Racing 4T Motorcycle 10W-40 Full Synthetic Motor Oil in the '17GSA and it has started using "some" oil at 150,000 miles. I get the warning light and have to add a few milliliters (maybe about 100-150ml) to top it off somewhere between the 6-10k mark. Depends if I'm trying to keep up with Greg Rice, running rally speeds, or just cruising around. I'm getting ready to do my spring oil change and it's is still in the middle of the site-glass at 8k after adding about 150ml at 6k. I can regularly buy this at $10/quart on sale at Autozone.
I've been using Mobile One almost exclusively (a short time with AmsOil when the company I was working for did the maintenance) in all my engines since it came out. I've gone well past 15,000 miles on my trucks and the one has 325k miles on it and only "uses" a quart every 10k or so.
That said, I'm using Mobil 1 Racing 4T Motorcycle 10W-40 Full Synthetic Motor Oil in the '17GSA and it has started using "some" oil at 150,000 miles. I get the warning light and have to add a few milliliters (maybe about 100-150ml) to top it off somewhere between the 6-10k mark. Depends if I'm trying to keep up with Greg Rice, running rally speeds, or just cruising around. I'm getting ready to do my spring oil change and it's is still in the middle of the site-glass at 8k after adding about 150ml at 6k. I can regularly buy this at $10/quart on sale at Autozone.