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My bike was serviced in March at 11k miles by BMW, I always do a mid term change but this year I'm using my bike a bit harder and starting trackdays so wondering what would be sensible intervals?

The bike has now done about 1400 miles since new oil, 1 trackday and a week at the IOM, I have another trackday booked for a couple of weeks time too. Was planning on changing after that or should I do it before?

Currently on BMW oil but have been recommended Motul 300V, any opinions?
 
Mine was serviced in October, had done about 1400miled by April including 7 days at Almeria. Changed oil for Motul 300v before the NC500 trip.

Some people recommend changing oil each trackday, but it depends how hard you are pushing.
 
I might change it beforehand then, I'd guess the following breakdown of the 1400 miles it's done:

100 miles trackday
800 miles for the TT, probably 350 of those were on the mountain stretch so pushing a bit
500 miles road riding, nothing too strenuous

If I wait until after the next trackday it would be closer to 2k miles?
 
I only do track days and change my oil every 3-4 track days using Motul 5000 10/40 and a hi-flow filter every time
 
bmwbadboy said:
Why not 300V? Why not K&N?

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What's wrong with motul 5100 10 40 (5000 was a typo in my previous post)
K nad filters have had some serious dangerous issues and have been subject to recalls and compensation payouts. Have a google you may stop using them. The best filters are probably OEM ones. What oils were people using before the latest marketing developments?
I use a standard air filter as the K and N makes now power improvements the only performance increase is in weight saving as your wallet is considerably lighter lol
 
I use 300v but yes 5100 is perfectly adequate.

Also agree on your filter points.

- Alex
 
OEM Oil Filter

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the OEM oil filter and they are quite cheap as well.
 
Toan the Moan said:
What's wrong with motul 5100 10 40 (5000 was a typo in my previous post)
K nad filters have had some serious dangerous issues and have been subject to recalls and compensation payouts. Have a google you may stop using them. The best filters are probably OEM ones. What oils were people using before the latest marketing developments?
I use a standard air filter as the K and N makes now power improvements the only performance increase is in weight saving as your wallet is considerably lighter lol
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I don't see any recalls for KN-160. Am I missing something?

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K&N Oil Filters

I've heard of plenty of issues regarding K&N oil filters ranging from poor fitment to failure. I personally prefer to just use OEM oil filters which are just as good and are reliable.
 
bmwbadboy said:
I don't see any recalls for KN-160. Am I missing something?

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It' not a particular model specific fitment failure but a batch failure, a lot of filters share the same outer body, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=170&v=83bZYmDyZEs

K&n issued a safety recall so it must be bad for a manufacturer to do that https://www.knfilters.com/recallkn204 The internet forums are full of people who have had failures on the K&N oil filter which are a different batch number to those in the recall. OEM filter is probably the best quality filter we could use
 
Re: K&N Oil Filters

RyS1000RR said:
I've heard of plenty of issues regarding K&N oil filters ranging from poor fitment to failure. I personally prefer to just use OEM oil filters which are just as good and are reliable.
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Good to know. I'm on my second filter from K&N no issues so far.

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Toan the Moan said:
It' not a particular model specific fitment failure but a batch failure, a lot of filters share the same outer body, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=170&v=83bZYmDyZEs

K&n issued a safety recall so it must be bad for a manufacturer to do that https://www.knfilters.com/recallkn204 The internet forums are full of people who have had failures on the K&N oil filter which are a different batch number to those in the recall. OEM filter is probably the best quality filter we could use
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This doesn't make sense. If different models shared the same outer part and K&N found a leak there, they would recall all models not one specific one...


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bmwbadboy said:
This doesn't make sense. If different models shared the same outer part and K&N found a leak there, they would recall all models not one specific one...


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Whats your point? K&N are not superior anyway so why would you expect folk to go for the products of a firm that has had issues and not the others, which haven't?

Use what you like, OEM, Mahle, Hi-Flo, K&N etc. Do your own research and decide, no one is forcing you, and likewise its not wrong for folk to choose to do things differently to yourself.




- Alex
 

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