Klurejr
Wizard
This is not intended to be a flamewar of one verses the other, just an interesting observation on how it has worked in my bike.
I bought my 2002fz1 in September 2011, she had 16,000 miles on the clock.
The guy I bought her from said he used Yamalube Conventional Oil because in his words "it is just as good as synthetic".
He also claimed the oil had just been changed.
Not wanting to do an Oil change right away I rode her for a few days and found the oil light came on pretty quick.
I have been using Mobil1 in my cars for a number of years now, so I am biased towards Synthetic and decided to stick to my brand and bought the 4MT motorcycle version for the bike. At $10.00 per quart, that makes for an expensive change.
At about 1500 miles the low oil light came on again and so I bought another quart and topped her off.
Changed the oil at 3k in.
On my second change using full synthetic I did not have the light come on once, and today I noticed about 1/8 - 1/4 of the glass showing the oil line. I just hit 3k a few days ago so I went ahead and changed it today.
I am hoping that I go the full 3k and have less or no line showing in the glass.
Based on this experience alone, I would say that the Synthetic is much healthier for my bike, and she burned much less oil because of it.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar?
I bought my 2002fz1 in September 2011, she had 16,000 miles on the clock.
The guy I bought her from said he used Yamalube Conventional Oil because in his words "it is just as good as synthetic".
He also claimed the oil had just been changed.
Not wanting to do an Oil change right away I rode her for a few days and found the oil light came on pretty quick.
I have been using Mobil1 in my cars for a number of years now, so I am biased towards Synthetic and decided to stick to my brand and bought the 4MT motorcycle version for the bike. At $10.00 per quart, that makes for an expensive change.
At about 1500 miles the low oil light came on again and so I bought another quart and topped her off.
Changed the oil at 3k in.
On my second change using full synthetic I did not have the light come on once, and today I noticed about 1/8 - 1/4 of the glass showing the oil line. I just hit 3k a few days ago so I went ahead and changed it today.
I am hoping that I go the full 3k and have less or no line showing in the glass.
Based on this experience alone, I would say that the Synthetic is much healthier for my bike, and she burned much less oil because of it.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar?