Walk into any dealership, and they will offer to sell you their own name oil
(Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, Harley, etc). It is "specially formulated" for their
engines. Is it? Within the DOT limits it could be.
The claim is rather meaningless. What there is, are limits on the amounts of
additives that can be added. As for the "high reving" "high performance engine"
"truck formulated" "motorcycle" etc claims, thats all just basic advertising
hype. Perfectly legal and misleading.
It's that way with everything from engine oils to ice cream, soda pop to
automobiles, airlines to diapers. Each one insisting that theirs is better then
the other guy, and somehow different. Sure, Pepsi may be a bit different then
Coke, but they are both soft drinks.
My Honda Magna went over 60K miles on Castrol GTX before I decided to open it up
and replace the bearings. That's an engine that normally self destructs in
under 20K miles. With camshaft replacements at 12K. Everything was fine on
mine
running automotive engine oil. The engine is now approaching 70K miles, with no
problems.
And no, Castrol is not formulated for "todays high reving engines". :-)
Mike Rambour wrote:
> At 08:21 PM 2/10/2001 -0500, Nolan Penney wrote:
> >Many years ago, a special magazine called Motorcycle Consumer News did a
> >study on this
> >claim. Basically, it's a fake claim. DOT has regulations on the amounts
> >of gear
> >additives allowed in motor oil. The "special" motorcycle oils are no
> >higher in Sulfur,
>
> Ok, I just went through this with my Motorcycle shop 3 weeks ago. I
> questioned them since I have been running Castrol GTX for years with no
> problem but they did some service on the bike and changed the oil without
> asking me and were charging a fortune for the oil. They claim that the oil
> is special and I was very doubtful...the counter guys answer was with all
> this legal junk on advertising these days, how do you think they would get
> away with it if it is not true and other silly items like that. The guys
> at the bike shop are convinced the box is right and the oil is special. I
> was not convinced but I am now wondering if they are right and I have
> ruined my bike by running the wrong oil. Ok it runs flawlessly and thats a
> stretch but my next oil change I will have to wonder again if they are right.
>
> Mike
>
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