According to this www.banditmania.co.uk/servicing.htm I should be only using mineral oil in my 2006 Suzuki GSF 650 Bandit ?
Am I wasting money using the more expensive Castrol GPS motorcycle specific oil........help im confused!
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 08/10/2007 at 07:23
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You will get many different replies.
Myself I have been using Halfords fully synth stuff when it is on offer/bogof etc and so far have 75k miles on my R1 with no trouble as yet.
Martin
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The really important thing as far as bike engines go is to always use a motorcycle specific oil, and change it every 3,000 miles.
Don't use a fully synthetic unless recommended for the bike, but a semi (such as GPS) is fine.
Interestingly, my ZZR has a cold start camchain rattle on GPS which doesn't occur on any other oil I've used.
Rock Oil Guardian is good stuff and very reasonably priced (<£15 for 4 litres).
Cheers
DP
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on my bandit i was told to only use mineral oil as mine has a wet clutch,the handbook also states to only use use mineral oil.
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sorry forgot to mention mine needs 10w-40 oil and must meet api sf sg or sh or sj i found in halfords there oil meets this so does castrol gtx hope this is of some help.
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The correct grade of "car" mineral oil will be fine. If you want to go for semi or synthetic make sure its a bike specific oil.
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Putoline DXP 10/40 seems to do very well in the air-cooled models - certainly my 600 seems happy with it.
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