riderr1150gsadv
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Good and hopefully you will get many more years out of that car!
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Which oil? Why Bel-Ray?
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kbasa
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Good and hopefully you will get many more years out of that car!
I expect so. It's pretty easy to maintain, in all honesty.
globalrider
Alps Adventurer
But in the life of a quality vehicle with 205,000 miles on it and it still runs like new, does it matter?
And I remember having the valve cover off at 118,617 miles (I keep an accurate log) and the approach end of the cam lobes looked like new and I mean off-the-shelf new.
pglaves
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Which simply shows that you are using a quality oil of the proper rating and correct viscosity. And that you are changing it at least as frequently as specified.
But if somebody else with the same engine got 100,000 miles before needing rings (or something) then in that case I would call that an oil related failure.
Trading anecdotes, my '86 K75T which died in an accident after 369,000 miles never had the engine, transmission or final drive opened up. Lubrication does matter!
globalrider
Alps Adventurer
I've never owned a K bike, but did yours or any K bike use oil even when relatively new and then thereafter?
I know my R1150 GSA did; my 2003 more than my 2004, but my 2016 R1200 GSA uses absolutely none.
lkchris
Active member
Advantec 15w-50 is for all air cooled engines from Oilheads on. It is a semi synthetic.
For Airheads and earlier there is a dino Advantec 20W-50, an oil seldom seen at dealers.
The 5w-40 Advantec is full synthetic and is for water cooled engines and bikes with wet clutches.
Discussions of difference between 15W and 20W are moot. W means winter and is only applicable to cold engine start. It is meaningless to hot running. Your Oilhead manual was printed prior to the advent of Advantec oils.
Advantec is the name BMW has applied to made in Germany with natural gas rather than crude base oils from Shell. Ducati uses different names for the same things as will the names be different on Shell bottles. I don't believe you can buy this oil with Shell branding in USA. This oil is apples/oranges not the same thing as Walmart Shell Rotella. Rather, see Pennzoil, a Shell owned brand for the German stuff. Probably not motorcycle specific Pennzoil.
For Airheads and earlier there is a dino Advantec 20W-50, an oil seldom seen at dealers.
The 5w-40 Advantec is full synthetic and is for water cooled engines and bikes with wet clutches.
Discussions of difference between 15W and 20W are moot. W means winter and is only applicable to cold engine start. It is meaningless to hot running. Your Oilhead manual was printed prior to the advent of Advantec oils.
Advantec is the name BMW has applied to made in Germany with natural gas rather than crude base oils from Shell. Ducati uses different names for the same things as will the names be different on Shell bottles. I don't believe you can buy this oil with Shell branding in USA. This oil is apples/oranges not the same thing as Walmart Shell Rotella. Rather, see Pennzoil, a Shell owned brand for the German stuff. Probably not motorcycle specific Pennzoil.
