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Re: First Oil Change - Report
- Subject: Re: First Oil Change - Report
- From: Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:39:28 -0500
At 10:56 PM 4/28/99 -0400, Eric Sheley wrote:
>I don't think a consensus was reached one way or another. I went with the
>synthetic, but I also ran the bike more aggressively (but not to the point
>of abuse) than most. Plus that is what Triumph recommends - if you had a
>problem later on, what are they going to say ? "You're out of luck because
>you followed our requirements..."
>
>If you are really worried about seating etc, go with regular and then
>switch to synthetic at 3000 miles.
First oil change today. The dealer (who is closed on Sunday only, for racing,
and has a CO analyzer, bless 'em) runs regular oil at the first change but
then recommends an additional change after an additional 1000 miles. He thinks
these engines wear in too slow for a 500 mile change to the slick stuff, and
also that going to 6000 on the second change is not good either. I think there
is probably some marketing pressure on that one.
Anyway, we put in the regular oil once more, and I will change to synth at the
1500 mile point. Complete service was 10 filter + 16 oil + 30 labor for the
500 mile service pkg, total $56.
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