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Engine Oil- How to choose the best one for your bike

Hi All, Happy to see you all after a long break. This time lets speak about the engine oils. Everyone owning a bike has their concern towards choosing the right engine oil for their bikes.

Even for Indian Bikes Review we could see that most of the comments are regarding the same.

Well! coming to motor cycle engine oils, we have not worried much since most of the bikes in indian market hold tiny engines (compared with other grown countries). However situaion is not the same nowadays as the demand for performance is growing more from the consumer perspecive even pro-sports bike started to show their faces in our market. Meanwhile the engine oils for the tiny engines also has slowly improved in standards and proved worthy enough to suit indian motorcycles.

We have many brands for Engine oils alone such as Castrol, Shell, Elf, Mobil, Motul, etc... because of these many brands in market choosing the right engine oil is always a confusion particularly when we can't find our usual engine oil in shop.

 Let me support our friends who need help in this part

Viscosity is the most important attribute for any engine oils (e.g.:20w40).

 For new engines:

1. 20w40 oil for normal engine size (<125cc)
2. 5w40 to 15w40 for bigger size (>125cc)

 For old engines:

1. choose engine oil with high viscosity 20w50 (<125cc)
2. For bigger engines make it 10w50 Next, standard plays an important part.

Generalising the standard API SL will be the base and greater (API SM or even higher standard) can be used. This standard helps corrosion resistance, preventing sludge formation and make engine healthier even in long runs.

Additional advice:

1. Never change engine oil brands frequently (use same brand engine oils)
2. Change engine oils every 3000kms to 3500kms (If fully synthetic - contact seller for the life of engine oil)
3. Frequently check engine oil levels every 1000kms (Especiall when you use engine oils with lower viscosity, when the level decreases switch o engine oil with higher viscosity.

 For more info. or queries feel free to comment in this post.